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Iveco Group and Hyundai Motor Company have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the 4th of March to explore possible collaborations on shared vehicle technology, joint sourcing, and mutual supply.  Iveco Group with Hyundai Motor Company The signing took place at Hyundai ...

ZF autonomous shuttle was presented to Trudy Harrison, UK Parliamentary Under Secretary for Transport and Isobel Pastor, Head of the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) at the Department for Transport (DfT) in late February. ZF says it «has accelerated the development of shuttle tech...

Up to 106 zero emission buses are headed to Austria, where ÖBB Postbus is going to deploy them starting from 2022 – 2025. Solaris has signed another framework agreement with the Austrian bus company Österreichische Postbus AG. It stipulates a possibility to delive...

Ebusco has recruited Patrick Oosterveld as Sales Director. He has been working within the bus industry for over 23 years. He has previously been working for VDL and BYD (his last job position was Deputy Sales Director for the Chinese brand). Ebusco will be joining the panel of the upcoming webinar &...

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...