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Julian Soell has been appointed as president of Proterra Transit business unit effective May 2, 2022. As president of Proterra Transit, “Julian Soell will oversee Proterra’s growing business as the leading manufacturer of electric transit buses in North America. In his role, Julian will report...

BorgWarner has received a $4.09 million (around €3.8 million) U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Award to design and develop a cost-effective, advanced DC fast charger, Sustainable Truck&Van reports. BorgWarner received one of 25 research, development and demonstration projects which aim to advance...

Dana Incorporated has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification for its Sustainable Mobility Center, located on its World Headquarters campus in Maumee, Ohio, United States. Dana’s Sustainable Mobility Center awarded with LEED Dana’s state-of-the-art Sustainable Mob...

The MAN Lion’s City E continued to tour Europe in 2021, and now targets Morocco, where it is expected to ‘dock’ in early 2023. While the all-electric city bus was still touring 15 European countries in 2020, by 2021 it was already touring 20 countries. 20 countries to be ‘tou...

Fifteen new electric buses signed Mercedes (eCitaro) for the urban transport of Ludwigshafen, Mannheim and Heidelberg. So the German operator Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (Rnv) continues to expand and electrify its fleet by welcoming the first 15 of the 30 latest generation “stars” with sol...

The provinces Overijssel, Gelderland and Flevoland have awarded the public transport concession IJssel-Vecht to EBS. This news is reported on the on specialized Dutch media PV Magazine. EBS will start in IJssel-Vecht in December 2022. Keolis is currently operating an emergency concession after the p...

Karsan has signed a new contract to deliver its electric vehicles to the city of Focsani, in Romania. Under the agreement, 7 e-JEST and 9 e-ATAK deliveries will be made. Having already a fleet of 76 electric vehicles in Romania, Karsan has already received orders for 104 electric vehicles to be deli...

TTC Toronto has contracted up to 565 buses with New Flyer. The contract includes 134 Xcelsior forty-foot hybrid-electric buses, and 68 Xcelsior sixty-foot hybrid-electric buses (136 equivalent units) for a total of 270 EUs. The two four-year contracts include options for up to additional 263 forty-f...

Littlepay launched contactless EMV (cEMV) ticketing on the Palm Bus network in Cannes, France. The Cannes Lérins Agglomération supports this modernisation of the ticketing system, in collaboration with Palm Bus, Kuba, Littlepay and La Banque Postale. Cannes: public transport ticketing go contactless...

67 million euros investment for 120 electric buses. Autoguidovie, the main Italian private-owned public transport company, with activities in the north of the country, speeds up its investment plans towards zero-emission mobility, and last week published a large tender for the purchase of battery-el...