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Kempower has been chosen to deliver electric bus fleet fast charging solutions to bus operator Bergkvarabuss AB’s electric bus depot in Strängnäs, Sweden. The charging infrastructure is included in a total delivery that Scania carries out to Bergkvarabuss, consisting of six vehicles. The delivery wi...

Moscow currently runs 1000 electric public electric buses on 66 bus routes. This year the Government of Moscow plans to buy 500 electric buses. Most of them will be purchased with the funds from the green bonds. Moscow has entered the green bond market to implement the principles of sustainable deve...

TWAICE and ViriCiti have just published a white paper on the benefits their predictive maintenance program provides in terms of vehicle battery life and significant reduction in operating costs for e-bus fleets.  The result of the collaboration between the two companies is a Battery Health Package t...

The prototype electric bus Dancer is being tested for passenger transportation at Vilnius Airport. The Lithuanian-made vehicle is being developed by a subsidiary of the Vėjo Projektai group, Elektrinio transporto sistemos, which is implementing a project funded by the European Union Regional Develop...

Trambuses are ready to run in Swedish city of Malmö under Nobina’s livery. Van Hool has indeed concluded a contract with the largest passenger transport company in Scandinavia for the delivery of 21 battery-electric 24-meter articulated trambuses of the Exqui.City model. The trambuses are expe...

New German order for Ebusco, that has been commissioned 10 Ebusco 2.2 vehicles and 10 chargers from Südwestdeutsche Landesverkehrs-GmbH (SWEG). The buses will be operating in the Baden-Württemberg region.  Ebusco just landed a new order in Munich. Stadtwerke München already has extensive experience ...

The Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus Council (HFC Bus Council) has formed a first-of-its-kind national coalition of public transit agencies, manufacturers, and suppliers working together to advance the hydrogen fuel cell electric bus economy and its applications in the public transit sector. Founding members ...

Akasol will supply Gillig with the third generation of its battery systems, the AKASystem 9 AKM 150 CYC. The framework agreement has a total order value in the low triple-digit-million-euro range. Gillig offers up to 686 kWh of available energy in its transit bus – the largest capacity in a North Am...

On Monday 17th January, the new Skoda E’ City electric bus from the Skoda Transportation Group went on its first test drive with passengers in Prague. The electric bus will now take test drives mainly on lines 154 and 213 and during weekends also on line 124. Prague is the first city where thi...

Building on the first edition held in 2021 with two web events gathering over 2,000 single attendees and 11 partners, the Sustainable Bus Tour is back in 2022 with a schedule made of four webinars that will be pursuing the goal of discussing key issues and outlooks of the public transport sector wit...