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Salzburg AG has just ordered 13 new battery-powered trolleybuses from Hess. They are expected to be delivered in 2023 and 2024. This will bring the Hess fleet in Salzburg to 42 vehicles. In addition to the delivery of vehicles, the contract also includes the maintenance of the vehicles by Hess in Sa...

Nova Bus has achieved its largest electric bus contract to date. It has been awarded a contract for 20 LFSe+ in addition to 20 options, for a total of 40 electric buses, by the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO), as part of a sustainability initiative. The METRO Board authorized...

Two months after the presentation event held on 22 November 2021, the newly-launched Menarini Citymood 12e, the first 12-meter electric bus designed and built entirely in Italy, has been awarded its first order. Four vehicles have been commissioned by ATVO (Azienda Trasporti Veneto Orientale). IIA C...

Saga Tenix (an Idekapital portfolio company) has appointed Torbjørn G. Krøvel in the position of executive chairman. He comes to Saga Tenix from a 3-year period as CTIO at Link Mobility Group, a publicly listed company on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Saga Tenix is a provider of electric bus telematics s...

A new fleet of full electric buses to revolutionize London’s transport and mobility in a green way, as well as encourage even more people to return to public transport in the post-pandemic. The e-buses in the English capital are a sign of the commitment of the city and Tfl (Transport for Londo...

Stena Recycling, Swedish specialist in battery recycling, wants to invest in the construction of a battery recycling plant in the Halmstad area, in Sweden. The Swedish Energy Agency decided to support the company by giving Stena about 6.8 million euros. The facility is expected to initially handle a...

At the Winter Olympics underway in Beijing a gold medal, or rather, hydrogen for over 800 buses, since in the chinese city – theater of the games – are circulating hundreds and hundreds of fuel cell buses. As ChinaBuses reports, according to statistics released by the organizing committe...

The Quantron AG family is expanding and welcomes Ulrich Hörnke as its new CFO, Chief Financial Officer. In addition to the CFO’s classic tasks in the areas of accounting, controlling, internal and external reporting and risk management, Hörnke, as part of the board of directors, will also be r...

NFI Group Inc., a leading independent bus and coach manufacturer and a leader in electric mass mobility solutions, announced that its subsidiary New Flyer of America Inc. has received a new contract from Denver’s Regional Transportation District (“RTD”) for 17 battery-electric, zero-emission Xcelsio...

Electric bus registrations increased of 48% in 2021 compared to 2020 in Europe. 3,282 e-buses were delivered last year, bringing to over 8,500 the vehicles registered in the continent since 2012. What is worth mentioning, in 2021 for the first time as many as three European countries registered over...