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The European Investment Bank (EIB), the bank of the European Union, and Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko have signed a €100 million loan agreement to renew the city’s trolleybus and metro fleets. The EIB’s financing will increase the availability and improve the quality of sustainable urban public transp...

In March 2021, Boris Johnson introduced Bus Back Better, the National Bus Strategy for England. It sets an ambitious vision for revolutionising the provision of local bus services and commits public transport operators and Local Transport Authorities (LTAs) to working closely to foster a new environ...

Xplore Dundee has put in operation a fleet of 12 electric double deckers from ADL and BYD. Built locally in Scotland at ADL’s factory in Falkirk utilising BYD’s expertise in batteries and integrated powertrain technology, the dozen BYD ADL Enviro400EV are Dundee’s first zero emission buses. Once dri...

With an official ceremony held early this morning, Daimler Truck was launched on Frankfurt Stock Exchange. This is the actual completion of the spin-off that separates the truck and bus business from the car and van one. «Our future is in our own hands now», said Martin Daum, Chairman of the Board o...

Volvo Buses is the first European bus manufacturer to become a partner of ZEBRA, a large collaboration launched in 2019 to accelerate the deployment of zero emission buses in major Latin American cities. The agreement will require Volvo Buses to implement a number of activities, including the provis...

Zenobe is partnering with construction group Aertssen in Belgium: on-site batteries have been installed at its main office in order to store surplus renewable energy generated by 5,500 solar panels and manage energy price volatility. The stored energy can be released to power Aertssen’s business ope...

ATM Milano is expanding its zero-emission public transport fleet with new Solaris trolleybuses. An order for the supply of 50 Trollino 18 trolleybuses was signed in mid-November 2021. The contract is worth nearly €40 million. The order for 50 Trollino 18 units, placed by operator ATM Milano, is an e...

EV charging solution provider XCharge has been selected as provider of chargers by EMT Madrid in Spain and GTT in Turin, Italy. The company, whose headquarter are in Beijing and European subsidiary in Hamburg, has delivered 30 units of 120kW C6EU chargers with its e-bus charging management system in...

Solaris is going to deliver the first hydrogen buses for Czech Republic. 20 vehicles (in the framework agreement) have been ordered by the carrier Dopravní podnik města Ústí nad Labem. The bus will be equipped with two 125 kW electric motors each, ultra-modern packs of 70 kW fuel cells and five comp...

Hitachi Energy and battery manufacturer Yinlong Energy will be partnering with Emirates Global Motor Electric (EGME), part of Al Fahim Group and the regional distributor of Yinlong energy for the Middle East and Africa, to support electric mobility initiatives in Abu Dhabi.  The aim of the part...