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Škoda Group, owned by PPF Group, is strengthening its senior management and introducing changes to the organisational structure. A few days ago the company announced the beginning of tests for a new trolleybus model. In late 2021 Skoda unveiled its new battery-electric bus E’CITY, that has been then...

Our fellow magazine Sustainable Truck&Van, together with the web platform Powertrain, organizes the webinar ‘Zero emission commercial vehicles. Is e-axle the leading solution for powertrain efficiency’. The web event will be broadcasted on June 13 at 3pm CEST. Below is the link to...

Jema Energy is going to supply over 150 chargers in Paris for RATP e-bus fleet. From 2023, the operator will install Jema Energy chargers to meet the goals of the BUS2025 programme. Another player awarded a big contract in Paris has been the Poland-based Ekoenergetyka. RATP has just recalled part of...

Iveco Bus with the Urbanway in mild hybrid version, Safra with the fuel cell bus model Hycity, Switch Mobility with its new 12-meter e-bus, Van Hool with the brand new A Series electric bus range. These are the main – announced – novelties that are going to be unveiled at the European Mo...

Forsee Power has completed the acquisition of NEoT Capital shares from Mitsubishi Corporation. Historically, the battery modules supplier held 15% of this company dedicated to financing in the renewable energy and electric mobility sectors; Mitsubishi Corporation and EDF through EDF Pulse Holdi...

After 19 years from the delivery of the last vehicle (the delivery of the 6000 series ended in 2003), the modernization of the tram fleet began in Turin (Italy). The municipal carrier GTT has signed a framework agreement with Hitachi Rail in May 2020 for the supply of 70 new trams, worth over €60 mi...

HVAC supplier Hispacold saw its turnover increase 28.6% to €46.3 million in 2021, compared to €36 million the previous year, “thanks mainly to growth in its railway market and in the electromobility segment (e-bus). With this growth, Hispacold has now returned to its pre-pandemic revenue level...

Van Hool will be introducing the new range of zero-emission public buses A Series at the European Mobility Expo in Paris (kickoff tomorrow 7th June – Sustainable Bus will be attending), one of the main public transport exhibitions scheduled for 2022 in Europe. At the same exhibition Switch Mob...

A brand new type of a 12-meter T´CITY Škoda trolleybus is on a test in Pilsen, Czech Republic. The novelty among Škoda Group products will pass a series of tests in the West-Bohemian metropolis in order to accomplish the type and homologation tests. The vehicle is equipped with traction batteries. I...

It is also time for electric buses in India, where demand is growing significantly. And on the heels of the 5,450-vehicle tender by CESL that we have already told you about, the central government in the Asian country is reportedly thinking of going big, indeed, very big: tenders for a total of 50 t...