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Jennifer Rumsey is going to take the role of President and CEO of Cummins starting 1st August 2022. Currently she hold the position of President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). She’ll replace Tom Linebarger, who will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board and Executive Chairman. Jennife...

UITP has signed a declaration to improve accessibility within public transport. The ‘Lecco Declaration’ (named after the Italian city where the agreement was reached and signed) is a crucial framework aligning key principles that organisations can build on to improve their own implementation of...

Voith will exhibit at IAA Transportation 2022, from 20 to 25 September in Hannover. The company is going to put on display its portfolio of solutions for electric mobility, in the field of trcks, LCVs and buses. In particular, Voith has developed the Voith Electrical Drive System (VEDS), designed fo...

Navya’s autonomous shuttles have been launched in Turin. On the morning of Thursday 14 July, at GTT Nizza depot, two driverless vehicles were presented. They will be the protagonists of the first driverless public transport pilot in Italy. It’ll involve a regular city line with passenger...

On the path to full electrification of Berlin bus fleet by 2030, BVG announces it will be using ACCURE Battery Intelligence during a one-year trial. “Each battery system continuously generates operating data and transmits it to the cloud. It’s then evaluated by ACCURE’s solution using artifici...

Arrival is planning a business reorganization. Up to 30 per cent of the workforce is going to be eventually reduced, Reuters says. The agency reports: “The restructuring, which the company said is in response to a challenging economic environment, aims at a 30% cut in spending to help meet its...

Following completion of final UK testing, the electric bus Agrale MT17.0LE, whose powertrain has been developed by Equipmake, leaves Norfolk today on its journey to Buenos Aires where it will begin in-service trials. The Equipmake ZED-powered Agrale MT17.0LE is a 12m single deck model capable of car...

At the VDV electric bus conference and trade fair ElekBu, the e-bus sound launched by the VDV, which is to be heard uniformly on German roads in future, has been implemented in a new e-bus for the first time today and played out via the AVAS loudspeakers. The winning sound was chosen in May 2022, [&...

Iveco Bus will collaborate with HTWO to equip its future European fuel cell buses with Hyundai-made fuel cell modules. HTWO, as a fuel cell system-based hydrogen business brand of Hyundai Motor Group, was first released in December 2020. It’s the first outcome of the partnership signed by Ivec...

Evobus Italia and Enel X Italia have won a tender for 16 Mercedes eCitaro electric buses (13 with a length of 12 meters, and 3 articulated). They’ll be in operation in the province of Trento. This is the first electric bus tender won in Italy by the Italian subsidiary of Daimler Truck. Signatu...