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Below, a new contribution fromClaudius Jehle, CEO of volytica diagnostics GmbH*.It’s the seventh of a series of knowledge articles (a cycle, indeed) on a series of topics around Li-Ion Batteries,written by Claudius and other field-related experts.Feedbacks, questions and contributions...

Consip (the central purchasing department of the Italian public administration) has awarded the framework agreement for the supply of CNG-powered buses for central/local governments and public transport companies. The winners were Scania (Italscania), Industria Italiana Autobus, Iveco and Otokar. Th...

Over 12,000 committed* electric school buses have been tracked by WRI Electric School Bus (ESB) initiative across the United States as of March 31, 2022. That’s more than 10,000 additional electric school buses since the release of WRI’s January 2022 dataset and almost a 10-fold increase since WRI b...

The newly refurbished Scania battery lab in Södertälje is up and running. It is quite an important facility within the company’s headquarters in Sweden, alongside the new battery assembly plant (equipped with ABB robots), as well as the test track optimised for electric and autonomous vehicles that ...

The largest ABB E-Mobility DC fast charger production center is located in Tuscany, Italy, precisely at the E-mobility Centre of Excellence in Valdarno.  The 16,000 square meters E-mobility Centre of Excellence represents an investment of $30 million, with 3,200 square meters area devoted to R&D...

More and more flexible on-demand shuttles are going to support the traditional transport services in Germany. In the Rhine-Main region, Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) and Deutsche Bahn (DB), together with local partners, have been implementing Germany’s largest on-demand service. In 2023, th...

Keolis will continue to manage urban transport in Bordeaux through its subsidiary Keolis Bordeaux Metropole. The Paris-based company, 70 percent owned by SNCF, won the tender against the other French giant Transdev. This was announced by Alain Anziani, president of Keolis Bordeaux Metropole, althoug...

Ben Werth has been appointed Chief Commercial Officer at pioneering bus manufacturer Wrightbus. He takes up the role alongside his current position as Managing Director of Wrightbus’s sister company Fuze Finance. A few days ago the manufacturer announced that Jörg Hofmann will take the role of Wrigh...

Stratio is going to join the conference of the Prognostic and Health Management Society, which will take place at the Unione Industriale in Turin, Italy, between the 6th and the 8th of July, 2022.   During the event, Stratio’s Data Science and EV Research Lead Miguel Simão will present a research pa...

Iveco Bus is applying to European funds in order to “initiate manufacturing investments and Research & Development activities that will capitalise on the skills and products of the national automotive supply chain, with particular focus on the dedicated component sector”, Iveco Group...