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Alexander Dennis Limited is ready to supply a range of zero emission buses to the Australian market. Nexport, an Australian owned supplier and producer of electric buses, will assemble bodies from the Alexander Dennis Enviro family on BYD chassis for the local Australian market. Nexport will also le...

The governments of Canada and Nova Scotia are investing in e-buses and charging infrastructures with the goal of kicking off the electrification of Halifax transit bus fleet. 60 zero emissions vehicles are expected. The municipality is pursuing full electrification of the bus fleet (340 vehicles) by...

Two fully electric Mercedes eCitaro in Germany have covered a combined 200,000 kilometres within the space of exactly one year of tough regular-service operations. The Egenberger bus company from Thierhaupten near Augsburg has saved more than 100 tonnes of CO2 emissions by using the vehciles on the ...

Forsee Power announces the takeover of Holiwatt (formerly Centum Adetel Transportation), a specialist in rail energy storage and fast charging systems established in Ecully, near Lyon.  This acquisition strengthens Forsee Power’s position on the rail market and provides the French company with...

Genoa’s project for the gradual transition to electric public transport goes ahead. Another important step towards green mobility was presented today with the introduction, on a trial, of two electric buses on line 82 connecting Santa Margherita Ligure and Portofino. The service will start tom...

UITP and Moscow Transport are launching CityTransitData: a new online platform providing data on sustainable mobility from cities across the world. A tool that would be able to answers questions such as «What is the size of New York City’s bus fleet? How many shared mobility vehicles can you find in...

De Lijn is ready to order 44 plug-in hybrid buses and to upgrade 280 hybrid buses into e-hybrid vehicles. The Flemish Mobility minister Lydia Peeters commented: “Together with De Lijn we make giant step towards emission-free public transport”, as quoted in a press note from the the cabinet of Flemis...

CaetanoBus zero emission buses will be commercialized in the Netherlands by Louwman Group, already distributor of Toyota. Louwman Group and CaetanoBus signed a sales agent and maintenance agreement for the models e.City Gold and H2. City Gold. This agreement will promote CaetanoBus ZE city buses on ...

Global market intelligence company Interact Analysis has joined CALSTART, a California-based nonprofit organisation focused on the clean transportation industry. The two organisations will work together to further CALSTART’s goal of bringing government and private sector organisations together to bu...

The international organization of public transport UITP welcomes the ‘Fit for 55 package’ package as a key delivery mechanism for achieving the goals of the European Green Deal. «The initiatives will contribute to an overall reduction of emissions in the transport sector, where CO2 emissions have co...