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CarMediaLab has won the tender for the electrification of public transportation in Israel. In essence, the MOBILEcharge charge management system will be used throughout Israel to recharge electric buses. Charging stations will be connected throughout Israel as Ayalon Highways, Israel’s nationw...

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is about to conduct the very first tests of its autonomous driving models in Munich, Germany. On the road to series production readiness, the self-driving all-electric Volkswagen ID. Buzz AD (Autonomous Driving) will be hitting the road for the first time over the next...

Share of zero-emission buses is growing in the European city bus market. In Q2 2023 it was 40%, up from the 30% of the first quarter of the year (same share for the whole 2022). The sales figures, along with a chart (published below), was shared by Eamonn Mulholland, Associate Researcher at The Inte...

California: Kern County‘s first hydrogen fueling station caught fire and exploded last Tuesday at Golden Empire Transit District’s new bus-filling facility, damaging a $1.1 million hydrogen bus and part of the station. The news is reported on specialized media Masstransitmag. The cause i...

New Flyer of America has received a new order from the Central Ohio Transit Authority (“COTA”) for 26 Xcelsior CHARGE NG™ 12-meter zero-emission, battery-powered transit buses. The ZEV order follows COTA’s previous purchase of 14 battery-powered Xcelsior CHARGE NG buses, announced ...

The public transport sector is step by step adapting to tackle the challenges posed by rising temperatures and heatwaves. Innovative approaches, such as AI-enhanced systems to improve passenger comfort and cooling down rail tracks, are being implemented, as UITP reminds in the paper “It’s getting ho...

The Wall Street Journal has reported that private-equity firm EQT AB is making a significant bet on electric school buses, planning to invest billions of dollars in electrifying First Student’s fleet. First Student, the largest school-bus operator in North America, currently operates about 44,...

Next summer in Seville a thermal conditioned bus stop will become operational. A team of scientists from the University of Seville’s School of Engineering (ETSI) has indeed developed a kind of ‘self-conditioning’ bus shelter thanks to the use of water and photovoltaic panels, which...

ABC Companies and Proterra have opened the largest electric motorcoach charging facility in North America, the partners announce. The first is North America dealer for Van Hool (that has e-coaches in its offering, starting from early 2021). Located on a 3.5-acre campus in Newark, California, the fac...

FPT Industrial and Reefilla, an innovative Italian (and Turin-based) startup offering a mobile charging service, have launched a pilot project aimed at giving a second life to batteries from electric commercial vehicles, in particular the eBS37 model installed in the Iveco eDaily and ...