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655 fuel cell buses are to be deployed in China during the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Such a giant fleet is going to be put in operation in Zhangjiakou city, as the state-backed Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday. «Zhangjiakou, which will host events such as Alpine skiing and snowboarding, curren...

Ebusco delivered today the first ever Ebusco 3.0 buses to its customer Stadtwerke Munich. The buses, produced in Deurne, the Netherlands, will run on line 100 in the inner city of Munich. The Ebusco 3.0 bus reduces approximately one kilogram of CO2 per kilometer driven. This is what ebusco 3.0 looks...

According to the Moscow Department of Transport, next year the public transport fleet of the city will be expanded with 43 three-section trams. The trams will be put into operation on four routes in the Northern Administrative District and the North-Western Administrative District of Moscow, namely ...

Daimler Truck, Traton and Volvo Group have signed a binding agreement to create an equally owned joint venture «to install and operate a high-performance public charging network for battery electric, heavy-duty long-haul trucks and coaches across Europe», as stated in the press release. Such a (very...

Sentient Labs, an R&D innovation lab, building on technologies incubated by KPIT Technologies Ltd, demonstrated India’s first truly indigenously developed Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus. The Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology has been developed in collaboration with CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial...

Lightning eMotors has signed a two-year agreement to purchase 175 megawatt-hours (MWh) of CATL battery products, the largest battery manufacturer in the world. Vehicle production with CATL packs is expected to begin in March 2022. Lightning eMotors will be working with CATL and CSI to design and ins...

ZF supervisory board appoints Heinrich Hiesinger as its new chair. He takes over from Franz-Josef Paefgen (who has been on ZF supervisory board for 13 years) as head of the supervisory board at the start of 2022  Hiesinger, former CEO of ThyssenKrupp AG, has been on ZF supervisory board since the st...

BYD UK and Alexander Dennis Limited have delivered four 10.2m length BYD ADL Enviro200EV electric buses to Nottinghamshire County Council, the first two of which have now entered service in Mansfield. These are the first BYD ADL electric bus in this 10.2m size specification to be delivered to a cust...

West Yorkshire Combined Authority, Leeds City Council and First West Yorkshire have taken delivery of seven Mellor Orion e-buses for use on their new FlexiBus on-demand service. The vehicles, presented in the operator’s eye-catching livery, entered service on September 27th. The battery-electric Ori...

Proterra announced plans to open a new EV battery system manufacturing plant in South Carolina to produce battery systems for Proterra Powered customers’ commercial electric vehicles. It’ll be the company’s third battery production facility nationwide. In December 2020, Proterra opened its sec...