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Forty-nine Iveco Crossways with endothermic engines will soon become forty-nine electric school buses for the city of Rouen, France. The retrofit will be handled by Greenmot, which won the public tender to convert the intercity buses. For the essential component, the battery, Greenmot is relying on ...

The Benteler brand Holon presented its driverless shuttle for the first time at CES 2023 in Las Vegas. It features design by Pininfarina and sees Beep and Mobileye as development partners. The vehicle is claimed to be “the world’s first autonomous mover built to automotive standards&#822...

Martin Lundstedt, President and CEO of Volvo Group, has been re-elected as the Chairman of the Commercial Vehicle Board of ACEA, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association. Lundstedt was re-elected for a second one-year term from amongst the members of ACEA’s Commercial Vehicle Board: the CE...

Jonathan Wood, so far Vice President of New Power Engineering at Cummins, will succeed Jim Fier as Chief Technical Officer, effective April 1.  Fier has decided to retire at the end of March 2023 after a 36-year career with the company. He spent his entire career of 36 years at Cummins. Fier began h...

There is also room in the future of the city of Madison, Wisconsin, for 46 electric buses from New Flyer. Specifically, these are the 18-meter, battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE NG model. Introduced in 2021, the Xcelsior CHARGE NG incorporates three distinct technology advancements, including high-en...

New huge and centralized tender for e-buses launched in India. State-owned Convergence Energy Services Ltd (CESL) has issued a procurement for 4,675 electric buses worth Rs 5,000 crore (the second tender under the National Electric Bus Programme (NEBP), as mentioned on a company statement covered by...

Catania municipality, in Sicily (Italy), has acquired 11 Karsan e-Atak 8-metre full electric buses. The first ones are already operating throughout the city for the necessary operational and set-up tests. The news is reported on Italian specialized media Autobusweb. This was announced by the City Co...

The Routing Company has received a three-year contract from the Municipality of The Hague in the Netherlands. The contract marks TRC’s second partnership in Europe, with The Hague joining West Coast Motors in Scotland. The Hague is the third largest city in the Netherlands. Its public transport serv...

The city of Prešov, Slovakia, will soon be able to count on six new trolleybuses signed Škoda: the 18-meter-long vehicles will complement the winged arrow’s fleet of 25 trolley buses delivered in recent years under a contract signed in 2016. Specifically, these are trolleybuses of the Škoda 27...

ZF has unveiled its next generation autonomous shuttle. They claim it is built for operations “in urban environments and mixed traffic” and features Level 4 capabilities. It is developed in cooperation with U.S. mobility services provider Beep. The partnership between the German giant an...