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How to manage large fleets of e-buses? How to deal between the necessity of a sufficient daily range and the efficient distribution of the appropriate charging infrastructures? Slow charging or fast charging? The transition to zero emission buses in city public transport must be based not only on a ...

UK-based minibus manufacturer Mellor hits back at the Department for Transport (DfT) following last week’s disclosure that manufacturers of passenger vehicles of less than 23-passengers capacity are excluded from financial support in the Government’s £3 billion ‘Bus Back Better’ funding strategy for...

Spokane Transit adds 12 Xcelsior CHARGE electric buses for operations in Washington State. The operator unveiled in late March its first 60-foot (18-meter), five-door zero-emission Xcelsior CHARGE City Line bus, as part of a contract that the manufacturer New Flyer won in June 2020. The contract was...

Polish battery supplier BMZ announced it is soon launching a new generation of EV battery (REESS) dedicated for commercial applications. Named Magnus+, is presented as a scalable solution that can reach nearly 700 kWh. BMZ is also the provider of the Solaris High Energy+ batteries, realized for the ...

A new order for 51 articulated e-buses in BRT design will bring to 113 the number of electric buses from VDL operating in the German city of Cologne for KVB. Seven more bus lines in Cologne will be converted to e-mobility starting in 2022. Cologne has also been the first city to receive the articula...

It’s the first bus line entirely operated by autonomous shuttles in the Île-de-France, close to Paris. Inaugurated on 31 March 2021, a new bus line serving the suburban train station of Saint-Quentin-en- Yvelines-Montigny-le-Bretonneux and several local business parks in the Île-de-France Mobi...

ZEBRA scheme has been launched in the UK, with up to £120 million (140 million euros) funding to help local transport authorities introduce zero-emission buses. The scheme under the name of Zero Emission Buses Regional Area is set to allow local transport authorities to: bid for funding to purchase ...

After the order secured yesterday with Stagecoach, ADL BYD has announced today an order from First Bus for a further 126 zero-emission buses for Glasgow, comprising 91 double deck and 35 single deck buses. All are part-funded by the Scottish Government. The order is the largest ever for electric bus...

Forsee Power announces the opening of an office in Japan. The new Forsee Power office is located in Tokyo and hosted by the Group’s Japanese shareholder Mitsui & Co., Ltd., one of the most diversified and comprehensive trading, investment, and service enterprises in the world, who joined Forsee ...

Stagecoach has ordered 46 BYD ADL electric buses for its fleets in Scotland. The 24 single deck and 22 double deck buses have been part-funded by the Scottish Government and will be deployed in the operator’s fleets in Aberdeen, Perth and Kilmarnock. ADL – BYD recently announced that additiona...