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On July 21 Yutong held a release conference for its new battery electric coach Yutong T13E and battery safety technology YESS in Santiago, the capital of Chile. A country that is leading e-bus deployment in Latin America: of the 2,162 battery-powered electric buses counted in the region, two cities ...

Strategic investment company SKion has acquired a 20% stake in battery supplier BMZ Group. “BMZ is pleased to win SKion as an investor and thus to further expand its positioning in the field of important future topics around the braking of climate change via energy and transport transition&#82...

The Supervisory Board of MAN Truck & Bus SE has appointed Stefan Gramse to the Executive Board. As of August 1, 2022, he will assume responsibility for Procurement, for which CEO Alexander Vlaskamp had temporarily held dual responsibility and which Stefan Gramse has already been operationally ma...

MAN is aiming for a greenhouse gas neutral balance sheet by 2050 at the latest – net zero emissions throughout the entire value creation chain. The decarbonisation of the fleet plays a central role in the company’s sustainability strategy: the group stresses that “A massive 97.4 percent of all...

MAN Truck & Bus achieved sales of around EUR 5.0 billion in the first half of 2022, “which, as expected, was noticeably below the previous year’s level”, the group says. New vehicle sales of a total of almost 35,000 trucks, vans and buses were down 26 percent compared to the fi...

Lionel Vialat has been appointed Plant Manager of the Switch Mobility factory in Valladolid. In March this year Switch Mobility held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the upcoming creation of its new advanced manufacturing facility in Valladolid, Spain. The newly launched Switch Mobility e1 electric...

SASA Bolzano is going to roll out a further batch of 13 zero emission buses (with 18-meter fuel cell buses). The local government has given ‘go-ahead’ to a project that will see the operator taking part in a national call for tender for three battery-powered and ten articulated fuel cell...

Solaris has signed a contract for its 2000th e-bus. So far, Urbino electric models of various lengths and configurations have been chosen by carriers in over 140 towns and cities in 21 European countries. Over 1300 vehicles out of this pool have...

In 2025 Barcelona will have an integrated tram network and no longer two separate networks. The beautiful Spanish city, 1,636.000 inhabitants, capital of Catalonia, in the early 2000s chose the streetcar as a new mode of transport for high-traffic surface routes, and from 2004 to 2008 put into servi...

Solar-powered mobility specialist Sono Motors has unveiled a ‘Solar Bus Kit’ for public transportation fleet. Through a retrofit intervention, with installation of solar panels on the roof of a conventional bus, the system aims to reduce fuel consumption and inner-city greenhouse gas emissions. In A...