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With around 42,000 buses sold In 2021, Yutong Bus achieved growth against the global trend. What is significant, the Chinese group exported 4,911 large and medium buses. Up to now, Yutong states it has exported accumulatively over 80,000 buses of various types, covering six major regions including E...

The long march towards the completion of the energy transition. One of the indispensable steps in this process goes through the production of bipolar plates, or rather, the mass production of fuel cells. In this regard, the Ultra Press 2 project is making rapid progress. In the Ultra Presss project,...

ABB announced the supply of «a comprehensive range of robotic solutions» for Scania new battery assembly plant in Södertälje, Sweden. The facility is set to be ready by end of the year. The global truck and bus manufacturer has indeed invested quite a lot of money (108 million dollars) on this ...

EV charging technology provider Kempower has launched its Kempower C- and S-Series product range to the North American market. The Finnish company will first operate in North America through its global and local partners. Kempower has recently signed a deal with Scania, thus becoming an official sup...

Heavy-duty commercial vehicles, being them trucks of coaches, will continue to be diesel-powered for a few years. Anyhow, «In the long term, we’re looking at an electrification battle between battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell technology in this sector». Who is going to win? «In the wider comme...

Starting from January 2022, all 62 Stadtwerke Osnabrück’s articulated electric buses were on the road for the first time on all five MetroBus axes. This marks another milestone on the way to completely electrically powered bus transport. At the end of March 2019, the MetroBus line M1 was conve...

$18 million will be invested by Quebec’s government into electric school buses. 120 e-buses from the domestic manufacturer Lion Electric will be purchased. These vehicles are to deployed by the bus company Autobus Transco (a subsidiary of First Student Canada) in Montreal. Minister of Transpor...

Forsee Power announces the renewal of its partnership with Iveco Group brands Iveco Bus and Heuliez Bus. Since 2013, the two companies have been working together to develop zero-emission public transport; more than 600 electric buses operate in Europe as of today, according to the French battery sup...

Today the city of Jaworzno in Poland will start testing the Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen bus. The trials will last four weeks. Local transport operator PKM Jaworzno wants to learn all about what the deployment of hydrogen has to offer in urban transport. Operator PKM Jaworzno and Solaris Bus & Coa...

Operators can receive an annual sum of up to 21,700 euros when they replace a diesel bus with a zero-emission bus under the current contracts. Flemish Climate Plan shifts into high gear: 300 extra electric buses run by operators in the next 3 years will reduce CO2 emissions by 50,000 tonnes. Ministe...