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$1.47 billion in competitive grant funds to help modernize bus fleets and facilities across the United States was announced on 7th March by U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Federal Transit Administration Administrator Nuria Fernandez at an event with Vice President Kamala Harris. The...

Ambitious steps are needed to limit global warming and to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. The electrification of urban buses is considered an important element in the decarbonization of urban transport. It also helps to reduce local air pollution and increase the quality of life in urban a...

Scania Mexico confirms its commitment to sustainability and the environment to reduce emissions and have a cleaner and more efficient mobility through its products: thus comes also its signature to the project ZEBRA (Zero Emission Bus Rapid-Deployment Accelerator), which is led by the International ...

UK-based e-mobility powertrain specialist Saietta steps up the efforts of its RetroMotion division, with the goal of intensifying an overhaul operation to transform existing high polluting diesel-engine-powered buses and coaches into battery-electric vehicles (through in-wheel electric motor in-hous...

Iveco Group and Hyundai Motor Company have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the 4th of March to explore possible collaborations on shared vehicle technology, joint sourcing, and mutual supply.  Iveco Group with Hyundai Motor Company The signing took place at Hyundai ...

ZF autonomous shuttle was presented to Trudy Harrison, UK Parliamentary Under Secretary for Transport and Isobel Pastor, Head of the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) at the Department for Transport (DfT) in late February. ZF says it «has accelerated the development of shuttle tech...

Up to 106 zero emission buses are headed to Austria, where ÖBB Postbus is going to deploy them starting from 2022 – 2025. Solaris has signed another framework agreement with the Austrian bus company Österreichische Postbus AG. It stipulates a possibility to delive...

Ebusco has recruited Patrick Oosterveld as Sales Director. He has been working within the bus industry for over 23 years. He has previously been working for VDL and BYD (his last job position was Deputy Sales Director for the Chinese brand). Ebusco will be joining the panel of the upcoming webinar &...

With around 42,000 buses sold In 2021, Yutong Bus achieved growth against the global trend. What is significant, the Chinese group exported 4,911 large and medium buses. Up to now, Yutong states it has exported accumulatively over 80,000 buses of various types, covering six major regions including E...

The long march towards the completion of the energy transition. One of the indispensable steps in this process goes through the production of bipolar plates, or rather, the mass production of fuel cells. In this regard, the Ultra Press 2 project is making rapid progress. In the Ultra Presss project,...