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Gareth Joyce has been appointed as Proterra President, while A.J. Cederoth is the new Interim CFO of the California-based electric bus manufacturer, that debuted on Nasdaq in early summer 2021. Gareth Joyce, who currently serves as President of Proterra’s Powered and Energy business units, has been ...

Karsan has just been awarded Turkey’s largest electric bus export deal worth 35 million euros. The group won the tenders for fully electric public transport solutions, issued by the Romanian Ministry of Regional Development and Public Management. Karsan won both tenders with its fully electric 18-me...

The opportunities, challenges and outlooks related to fuel cell bus adoption will be put under the spotlight at the second and last webinar of the Sustainable Bus Tour 2021, which will be live broadcasted on 14th October at 3 p.m. CEST, entitled: ‘Hydrogen buses. Their time is... now?’.

Moscow is among the leaders regarding the deployment of electric buses for public transport. There are already more than 700 of them in Moscow. Following the Order of the Mayor of Moscow, in 2021 the Government of Moscow refused to purchase diesel buses, so the main emphasis is on the development of...

Public transport in Europe show clear signs of recovery. But rates are uneven: «Traffic in Switzerland, Germany and France is close to pre-virus levels, being just about 10% down. Passenger volumes in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom are still significantly lower, by around 25 t...

School bus manufacturer Collins Bus (subsidiary of REV Group, Inc.) has reached an agreement with all-electric powertrains provider Lightning eMotors. The strategic partnership has the goal of manufacturing and deploying zero-emission, all-electric Type A school buses. The agreement includ...

An hydrogen bus model, a battery-electric one and a fuel cell minibus. These are just three among 15 new generation vehicles (alternative drives and diesel-fueled) unveiled by Russian GAZ Group at COMTRANS 2021 in Moscow. GAZ Group, new buses powered with batteries and hydrogen At the International ...

Volvo Buses announces it has been awarded a batch of three orders by Nobina, the largest bus operator in the Nordic countries. Total? 122 Volvo 7900 Electric and 7900 Electric Articulated are set to be delivered in Gothenburg, Malmö and Hässleholm in southern Sweden by 2022-23. Gothenburg, there are...

Loop Energy partners with Russian METTEM to provide hydrogen electric powertrain solutions to commercial vehicle OEMs across Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and Europe. The companies’ first joint project — a fuel cell bus for GAZ Group, a leading global commercial vehicle OEM p...

Sustainability and low environmental impact are not matters of vehicles and fuels. In the UK Worcestershire County Council is installing new bus shelters in Bromsgrove. Powered using a combination of wind turbines and solar panels, these will be the first shelters in the UK to be 100% ‘off grid’ and...