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Munich-based battery software experts TWAICE this week welcomed Jeff Glasson as their new CTO. He joins the 100 strong analytics company at their HQ. Mr Glasson will be responsible for TWAICE’s technology team and the overall technology strategy. He will be driving product delivery, scaling as well ...

Since February 1, 2022, Daimler AG becomes Mercedes-Benz Group AG. The renaming follows the spin-off and stock exchange listing of Daimler Truck, the latter now focused only on heavy-duty commercial vehicles. As a consequence, the brand-new Mercedes-Benz Group AG will focus its business on light com...

Starting in 2026, in Israel all new buses for public transport must be zero emissions. Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection has set mandatory targets for public transportation operators in the country. The goal is to have only zero emission buses in municipal public transportation by 2036. I...

Karsan has delivered the first batch of Level-4 autonomous buses ready for real road conditions in USA and Europe, to Romania. And new orders are coming from Northern Europe, Norway. The Autonomous e-ATAK is already testing the roads in Stavanger, Norway. Autonomous e-ATAK, launched one year ago, wa...

With today’s article, we are crossing the line from rather short-term effects to the vast field of degradation, to which we will dedicate a whole chain of articles in 2022. But to begin, it is instrumental to understand some basic principles. What is the excessively used “SOH”? How is it defined, wh...

Pelican Engineering has delivered a new fleet of 36 Yutong E12 zero-emission single-decker buses to  Cardiff Bus, in Wales (UK). The fleet was commissioned in spring 2021. Another large delivery of Yutong e-buses by Pelican Engineering took place in Scotland. The new fully-electric fleet was un...

BYD introduced an electric school bus model in North America. Being more specific, the bus is a Type A battery electric vehicle and, what is interesting, «offers innovative vehicle-to-grid technology, allowing the vehicle to serve as a power storage resource when it’s not transporting students», the...

South Korea‘s two port cities, Busan and Ulsan, along with the southern province of Gyeongsang will adopt a total of 624 hydrogen fuel cell buses with the ultimate goal of replacing public buses with internal combustion engines by 2025. The Ministry of Environment, as reported by Ajudaily said...

Temsa introduced its electrical bus MD9 electriCITY in Spain where electrical vehicle transformation is accelerated. Within the scope of the demo program organized under the leadership of Alsa, Spain’s largest operator company, theelectric bus, which will serve on the lines in the city of Murc...

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) will install an innovative clean energy microgrid and EV fleet charging system with Proterra and Scale Microgrid Solutions to help power the agency’s transition to a 100% zero-emission bus fleet, following a grant that was awarded for the project...