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Fifteen new electric buses signed Mercedes (eCitaro) for the urban transport of Ludwigshafen, Mannheim and Heidelberg. So the German operator Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (Rnv) continues to expand and electrify its fleet by welcoming the first 15 of the 30 latest generation “stars” with sol...

The provinces Overijssel, Gelderland and Flevoland have awarded the public transport concession IJssel-Vecht to EBS. This news is reported on the on specialized Dutch media PV Magazine. EBS will start in IJssel-Vecht in December 2022. Keolis is currently operating an emergency concession after the p...

Karsan has signed a new contract to deliver its electric vehicles to the city of Focsani, in Romania. Under the agreement, 7 e-JEST and 9 e-ATAK deliveries will be made. Having already a fleet of 76 electric vehicles in Romania, Karsan has already received orders for 104 electric vehicles to be deli...

TTC Toronto has contracted up to 565 buses with New Flyer. The contract includes 134 Xcelsior forty-foot hybrid-electric buses, and 68 Xcelsior sixty-foot hybrid-electric buses (136 equivalent units) for a total of 270 EUs. The two four-year contracts include options for up to additional 263 forty-f...

Littlepay launched contactless EMV (cEMV) ticketing on the Palm Bus network in Cannes, France. The Cannes Lérins Agglomération supports this modernisation of the ticketing system, in collaboration with Palm Bus, Kuba, Littlepay and La Banque Postale. Cannes: public transport ticketing go contactless...

67 million euros investment for 120 electric buses. Autoguidovie, the main Italian private-owned public transport company, with activities in the north of the country, speeds up its investment plans towards zero-emission mobility, and last week published a large tender for the purchase of battery-el...

The European project Assured has made e-buses a reality over the past five years. Also to make our cities greener, healthier and more livable. Coordinated by VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Assured was launched in 2017 with a consortium of 38 partners that included stakeholders from the entire tra...

Its name is ZX5 and it can boast 738 kilowatt-hours of energy. Proterra announced that it is increasing the amount of energy on board the electric bus, providing more battery storage to help transportation agencies engaged in emission vehicle fleets goal. Beginning in 2023, the Proterra ZX5 Max 40-f...

As the project to convert diesel buses into electric buses is progressing well, with Green-eBus successfully passing the first development milestone, clocking up the first kilometers with its new electric motor (responding perfectly to the constraints of driving, including uphill driving and untimel...

Optibus, a cloud-native solution for mass transit planning, scheduling, rostering and operations, announced the acquisition of Trillium, a SaaS provider that helps transportation operators and agencies keep passengers informed. Trillium will become Optibus’ Global Center for Data Excellence an...