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Barcelona plans that from now on only clean buses will be bought, meaning battery-electric, hydrogen and gas-hybrid vehicles. TMB’s commitment to reducing emissions and decarbonization has the goal of reaching 2030 with more than 50% of the bus fleet made of electric buses (23 units are expect...

Siemens Smart Infrastructure won a major contract from Hamburger Hochbahn, the largest local transport provider in the Hanseatic city. Siemens will equip two of the six carports at the Alsterdorf bus depot with a total of 96 charging points as well as medium and low-voltage technology. Operations ar...

Cologne’s RVK is testing a Caetano hydrogen bus. Until mid-January, the 12-meter Caetano H2.CityGold will be tested in the metropolitan area of Cologne, Germany. The operator will receive 15 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen in the future that will join 30 fuel cell buses by Van Hool. The same vehicle has ...

Euro Mobility Expo 2020 will be held in a full digital mode. Initially scheduled for 24-26 June, then postponed to 15-17 December, on 28th October the organizers communicated that the face-to-face event has to be cancelled due to the pandemic.

Yesterday, 13 December 2020, Keolis began operating 246 fully electric buses in the Netherland’s eastern provinces of Gelderland and Overijssel (IJssel-Vecht region). This deployment is set to cut around 16,000 tonnes of CO2 from Keolis’ environmental footprint per year, the operator poi...

American company QuantumScape, backed by Volkswagen and Bill Gates, announced it has discovered an electrolyte which would be set to allow extraordinary battery performance. QuantumScape says its solid-state battery (with lithium-metal anodes) can reach 800 cycles without loss of performance and is ...

Heliox is implementing RFID technology to ensure safe charging operations in Haarlem-IJmond (Netherlands). The supplier is partnering with Transdev-Connexxion, which is operating full electric bus fleets also in Amstelland-Meerlanden. For the Haarlem-IJmond concession, Heliox’s solution for secure c...

Tata Motors delivers e-buses in Mumbai. 26 units of the Tata Motors Ultra Urban AC have been delivered as part of larger order of 340 electric buses issued by Brihanmumbai Electric Supply & Transport (BEST). The bus is equipped with ‘Lift Mechanism’ for ease of access for specially abled passeng...

Hydrogen Europe calls the European Commission to more ambitious target on the decarbonization of good transportation. Following, the feedback of the organization, which represents the European industry, national associations and research centers active in the hydrogen and fuel cell sector, on the re...

By 2050, nearly all cars, vans, buses as well as new heavy-duty vehicles will be zero-emission. It is written on the ‘Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy’ presented yesterday by the European Commission together with an Action Plan of 82 initiatives that will guide EU work for the nex...