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Swedish battery specialist Northvolt announced the beginning of production of lithium-ion battery cell at the company’s gigafactory in Northern Sweden. As a matter of fact, the cell is the first to have been fully designed, developed and assembled at a gigafactory by a homegrown European battery com...

Arrival today announced it has started trials of the Arrival Bus at a testing facility in the UK. The vehicles will be going through validation and testing ahead of certification.   “We now look forward to bringing our vehicles, led by the Bus, to the market beginning in 2022, built b...

Scania expects «an expanded range of up to 500 km in four to five years» for its portfolio of electric trucks and buses, that today offer a «range of up to 250 km per charge». The Swedish group has released a note explaining its roadmap towards e-mobility. The company offers in its portfolio the ele...

A 100% electric Irizar ie tram will be running along Vereda de los Estudiantes and Barrio de la Fortuna, in the southern area of Madrid, in the framework of a pilot carried out by Empresa Martín (belonging to the Ruiz Group). The e-bus will be travelling on the regular L-1 route. The vehicle is 100%...

BYD, Keihan Bus Co., and Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. announced that they had put 4 BYD J6 electric buses into service on Japan’s first all-electric public transit loop. Keihan Bus and Kansai Electric Power plan to conduct a five-year demonstration operation with the first batch of four electric ...

The mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, and the councillor for Mobility, Eugenio Patané, accompanied by the director of the municipal operator ATAC, Giovanni Mottura, took part on the 22 December at the delivery cerimony of 70 new mild hybrid buses at the Portonaccio depot (they follow a first batch o...

The first of eight state-of-the-art hydrogen fuel cell buses built by CaetanoBus arrived at a Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) depot this week. At the same time, Iberdrola has already started producing green hydrogen in its Zona Franca plant, where these urban buses will soon be supplied,...

A consortium consisting of Solaris Bus & Coach and Škoda Electric will deliver more trolley buses to Budapest: 48 Trollino vehicles will be equipped with an additional battery that will allow them to drive without being connected to overhead cables. The new order is another batch covered by a fr...

Next Mobility Exhibition (NME) will be launched in Milan next year, from 12 to 14 October 2022. It’ll be the kickoff of a brand new format, with biennial appointment, dedicated to the mobility of the future to be held at Fiera Milano. The exhibition, organized by Fiera Milano, will have as par...

The German public transport industry, through the VDV as the industry association, has commissioned the FOAM Institute, which specialises in sound design, to organise a student competition. The aim is to develop, produce and introduce a uniform sound for the Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System (AVAS) f...