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The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Nuria Fernandez has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 15th Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). Fernandez is also the first Senate-confirmed woman of color to lead FTA, and the first confirmed Administrator in over a decade...

CaetanoBus has been selected as the supplier to deliver five 12m fuel cell buses to Kreis Düren in Germany by the 1st quarter of 2022. The vehicles will be operated by Rurtalbus, a company founded by the RATH Group and the Dürener Kreisbahn (DKB) in 2019 and is responsible for all public bus transpo...

44-percent share of alternative drives in traded vehicles in 2020, 700 delivered zero-emission buses, carbon footprint reduction of 51%, energy savings, new values introduced by the company, environmental and social policy, sustainable development vision and g...

San Francisco Bay Area’s AC Transit orders an additional 20 fuel cell buses from New Flyer, model Xcelsior CHARGE H2, unveiled in March 2019. The purchase was made through California’s State Cooperative Procurement, which New Flyer was selected for as a top-scoring approved supplier in 2019. 35 zero...

Rimini’s Metromare is switching gear, the supply of new-generation trolleybuses to ATM Milano has been completed, while other vehicles are making their debut in service in Emilia-Romagna region. The first half of 2021 in Italy has been anything but dull as far as trolleybus projects are concer...

BYD has designed and delivered a trolleybus in response to Walla Walla’s Valley Transit’s needs, in the US (Washington state). The Chinese giant has been working to this extent with a third party, Cable Car Classics of Healdsburg, Calif., to design a trolley using BYD’s 35-foot transit bus mod...

CNH Industrial has unveiled the name of Gerrit Marx as the designated CEO of CNH On-Highway Business. We’re talking about the new entity of the global group that is expected to assume independent operations early next year. The spin-off was announced back in September 2019, on the occasion of t...

Groeningen, Netherlands: a new hydrogen filling station in Qbuzz bus depot. 20 new fuel cell buses have been presented during the ceremony. They are built by Van Hool and were ordered in 2019. On Friday 11 June the new hydrogen filling station at the Qbuzz bus depot on the Peizerweg in Groningen was...

Genoa (Italy) witnesses the entry in operation of a further batch of Rampini 8-meter electric buses (ten units are awaited, powered with Siemens charging infrastructures). They are to be operated by PTO AMT on line 193, that thus becomes the first fully electric line in the western part of Genoa. Th...

The new Schunk SLS 301 series variant introduces a ELT recognized pantograph with variable operating heights, aimed at promoting quicker and safer hands-free electric vehicle charging. With easy integration into existing and new infrastructure requirements, its compact size increases usable floor sp...