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Pepper Motion GmbH and REV Mobilities, pioneers in electric mobility, want to bring commercial vehicle retrofits as OEM series to France in the short term. With this first German-French cooperation in the field of retrofitting, Pepper is targeting one of the strongest bus and truck markets in Europe...

Hitachi Energy Grid-eMotion Fleet charging system will be implemented in two new depots in Berlin, where the city operator BVG has set the goal of a zero-emission bus fleet by 2030. 90 e-buses will be deployed in 2022, according to plans. Infrastructure’s provider Hitachi Energy (who is suppor...

Twenty hydrogen-powered buses are deployed on the roads of Heinenoord, Netherlands, for local public transport. In the town, in fact, built by Everfuel, a new fuel cell vehicle station has been inaugurated, destined to supply the vehicles of Connexxion, co-financed by the Clean Hydrogen Partnership ...

This new Irizar ie tram, a zero emissions electric bus in the style of a tram, is the first of the model to be added to the six electric buses already in the Bilbobus fleet. Irizar electric bus in Bilbao The new 12 metre long Irizar ie tram has 43 seats, 2 wheelchair areas and […]

BUS2BUS 2022 is on the launching pad and announces the new vehicles that are going to be launched in Berlin on 27 and 28 April. The BUS2BUS 2022, scheduled for 27 and 28 April in Berlin, will be the first on-site event for the bus industry since the Corona outbreak. Last year the exhibition was held...

Quantron AG achieved sales of 10 million euros in fiscal year 2021, based on «a strong start to the conversion business in the commercial vehicle segment with its Q-Retrofit business unit», as the Augsburg-based company says. Quantron results 2021 Compared with the previous year, the result represen...

A fleet of (at least) 56 bi-articulated battery-powered buses coupled with ground-based charging system. The Île-de-France region and the transport authority Île-de-France Mobilités have chosen an innovative public transport solution provided by a consortium made of Van Hool, Kiepe Electric and Alst...

CALSTART new data tracks 26% growth of zero-emission truck and bus model availability globally. According to the North American nonprofit organization, the number of zero-emission truck and bus models on the market now or in the near future will grow nearly 26% from 2020 until the end of 2022 (from ...

Electric buses are also arriving in the city of Ho Chi Minh (better known as Saigon), Vietnam, where the pilot phase of the first e-bus service has been launched, thanks to the work of the Vinbus Ecology Transport Services Company. The service is linked to the public transport system of the southern...

Keolis Group has the set the goal of tripling the share of bus kilometres powered by alternative energies to diesel by 2030. This goes along with the other commitment to reducing intensity of greenhouse gas emissions per kilometre by 30% from the 2019 baseline. Finally, the French group aims to...