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Los Angeles goes electric. The LA Department of Transportation (Ladot) announced that the agency has been awarded a $6 million grant by the California Energy Commission to install one of the largest EV fleet charging systems in the United States that will be powered by a solar and storage microgrid....

Pelican Engineering, which is the sole supplier in the United Kingdom for the world-leading Yutong brand, is celebrating having supplied a total of 62 zero emission electric passenger vehicles for operation in and around Glasgow during Cop26. As well as supplying 55 Yutong E12 electric buses to McGi...

Keolis began operating a network of over 400 buses (406, to be more specific) in Greater Sydney (Australia), with plans to convert 125 vehicles to electric power. The contract started on 31 October 2021 and is managed by Keolis’ Australian subsidiary Keolis Downer. The eight-year contract, wor...

H2X announces it is to commence fuel cell bus production in Sarawak, Malaysia. First customer will be Sarawak Transport System, which is expected to take delivery of the vehicles in the next 18 months. H2X Global is the company behind Australia’s first hydrogen fuel cell electric ute, which attracte...

All Aboard America! Holdings has bought the largest battery electric double decker motor coach in the US by Lightning eMotors and ABC Companies. The vehicle is a Van Hool bus gone through a conversion process. It is now powered with 640 kWh battery capacity. All-electric powertrains provider Lightni...

Go-Ahead has signed a contract to buy its first fuel cell bus fleet. 20 hydrogen vehicles will be deployed by Brighton & Hove and Metrobus. The buses have been commissioned to Northern Irish manufacturer Wrightbus. They’ll be on service on the Fastway routes in the Crawley, Redhill and Gat...

Ted Dowling has been appointed Managing Director North America for Ebusco, in the framework of the Dutch company’s expansion on world markets outside Europe. He has formerly covered the position of BYD Regional Vice President. Ebusco makes public it «will expand its sales and marketing of its ...

CapMetro (Austin) bets strongly on electric bus deployment. The public transport company has indeed awarded NFI subsidiary New Flyer a contract for 26 battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE NG forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses and four battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE NG sixty-foot heavy-duty transit bu...

Vėjo projektai and Altas Auto are combining their sales forces. The two Lithuanian companies join forces with the goal of sharing engineering experience and representing the interests of sustainable transport at the national – Lithuanian – level. By joining forces, the companies will als...

BYD French e-bus factory will be halted. The Chinese e-bus (and EVs) maker has decided to close the plant, but has underlined that it will still be active in the French market. The news is reported on the French specialized media Bus&Car Connexion. Announced in spring 2017, the plant was suppose...