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Local public transport in the Chinese city of Heze, Shandong Province, is going electric. One hundred ten-metre Zhongtong buses of the new electric series have arrived and are now in operation, providing an environmentally friendly transport service for citizens, as Chinabuses.org reports. The new b...

The webinar was opened by an overview by UITP and gathered contributions from cities embarked on the way to the transition to e-buses, such as Brisbane, and from PTOs represented in the German organization VDV. Finally, the point of view of the bus builder has been represented by Ebusco‘s CEO Peter ...

The St. Louis fleet in the USA will operate 18 New Flyer buses, seating approximately 60 people each, on the city’s busiest routes and will be electrified by ABB’s high-powered charging infrastructure. ABB claims its charging solution for St. Louis «represents the largest deployment of c...

In 2021, 68.8% of all new buses registered in the European Union ran on diesel. Electrically-chargeable buses posted strong growth, resulting in their market share increasing from 6.1% in 2020 to 10.6% last year. Alternative fuels powered 10.5% of all new buses sold, while hybrid electric vehicles a...

Bratislava is ready to modernise its trolleybus fleet. To do so, it has commissioned Skoda Transportation Group and Solaris, which together have won two tenders for the supply of 23 bi-articulated trolleybuses and 16 three-articulated trolleybuses with high passenger capacity. The value of the two o...

Indian electric bus manufacturer Olectra has added 150 more vehicles to its fleet in Pune. Olectra’s total fleet of 300 electric buses in Pune is the largest in the segment compared to any city in India. The company announces it is confident of adding another 350 buses to Pune Mahanagar Pariva...

More buses signed Solaris for the city of Dortmund (Germany) and this time they will all be electric. Yes, because the Polish manufacturer will deliver to the German reality thirty e-buses, Urbino 18 model, by the end of 2022. This investment by public transport operator Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG is ...

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 ...