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«The focus of BUS2BUS 2022 will be on alternative drives, new infrastructures, conversion options, digital services and innovations from the supply industry», explains Kerstin-Kube Erkens, Senior Product Manager BUS2BUS, an exhibition that sees Sustainable Bus among the media partners. The BUS2BUS 2...

Letenda unveiled its new generation of zero-emission transit buses designed specifically for electric propulsion and Canadian winter conditions. The first model, named Electrip, is entirely engineered in Quebec. In late 2021 it was announced that Cummins battery technology is to power elec...

Thirty-two Solaris electric buses for the Polish cities of Liwice, Katowice, Sosnowiec and Świerklanie. Together with the vehicles, the manufacturer will provide the necessary charging infrastructure: the commissioned 12- and 18-metre Solaris e-buses will arrive in 2023. Solaris Urbino electric buse...

Cummins is expanding its powertrain platforms, leveraging a range of lower carbon fuel types. As the industry’s first unified, fuel-agnostic engines, these platforms will use engine blocks and core components that share common architectures and will be optimized for different low-carbon fuel types. ...

Stratio has announced a partnership with Freeway Fleet Systems to deliver its real-time predictive fleet maintenance technology to the UK’s bus and coach sector. The integration of Stratio’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform with Freeway’s fleet maintenance system will provide coach and bus oper...

Volvo Buses secures new orders for electric buses in Finland. That’s right, because the Gothenburg-based company will deliver an 82 Volvo 7900 electric buses to three locations in Finland: 61 are destined for Helsinki and represent the largest ever order for Volvo Buses in Finland, while two o...

After the green light from the Council, the Municipality of Bologna has sent the Ministry of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility the “papers” to access the funding already allocated by decree 530 of 23/12/2021: 90,165,087 euros of PNRR funds that will allow the purchase of 127 hydrog...

Proterra announced the appointment of Roger Nielsen to the company’s board of directors effective March 2, 2022. The company also announced that Jochen Goetz will be stepping down from the company’s board effective March 2, 2022 so that he may focus on his other professional responsibilities.  Roger...

A few days ago Gerard Slegers (vice chairman of the Amsterdam Transport region), Egbert de Vries (councilor of traffic and transport of the city of Amsterdam) and Claudia Zuiderwijk (general manager of GVB) signed the letter of intent Zero Emission Transition Amsterdam. 44 e-buses are now operationa...

It is the German urban operator Hanauer Straßenbahn that has received the first (two) mild hybrid versions of the Solaris Urbino. Under the agreement signed in April 2021, a total of 16 buses, including nine 12-meter and seven 18-meter buses, will be delivered to the city of Hanau, all of which will...