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BorgWarner is to take over battery manufacturer Akasol. This morning Akasol and BorgWarner announced «the companies have signed a Business Combination Agreement to enter into a strategic partnership and BorgWarner will launch a voluntary public takeover offer». The US-based group is then set to acqu...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan personally examined and tested the Autonomous Atak Electric, developed co-jointly with ADASTEC and Karsan. The manufacturer made public that a ceremonial event was held at the Presidential Complex to mark the occasion. «Briefed extensively about Karsan Autonomo...

Allison Transmission will offer Allison’s eGen Flex electric hybrid propulsion system to Gillig, a US-based transit bus producer. The system enables full electric mode for up to 10 miles. In May 2020 Gillig announced that its first battery-electric bus model was under testing. The bus features a dri...

Only electric buses on the city streets by 2025. There are 297 buses to be converted. In the framework of the England-wide competition to switch an entire town or city’s bus fleet to electric vehicles, Coventry had been selected together with Oxford in early 2021. Now Coventry City Council announces...

142 diesel buses and 40 hydrogen-powered ones. Odd couple? Not at all! Solaris just secured three framework agreements with ÖBB Postbus for the exclusive supply of up to 182 buses which will be used throughout Austria. According to the concluded framework agreements, as mentioned above, a total of u...

Bus depot in Regensburg will be equipped with charging stations from Siemens Smart Infrastructures. The German group has received an order from the Regensburg transport authority Stadtwerk Regensburg.Mobilität GmbH to equip the bus depot in the Markomannenstrasse for electromobility. Siemens will su...

31 new battery-electric buses in Kiel‘s future, thanks to additional funding just awarded to the public transport company KVG from the Federal government. The city will witness the entry in operation of 11 articulated e-buses and 20 12-meter vehicles. Also three electric minibuses will be proc...

Temsa has started to produce Li-Ion battery packs for its electric vehicles’ range in its Adana plant. CEO Tolga Kaan Doğancıoğlu said: “Half of our buses will be electric by 2025”. Temsa has so far exported a batch of electric buses in Sweden and got the first order for vehicles j...

Transdev Group announces the appointment of Martin Becker-Rethmann as CEO Germany. The position will be effective starting from February 15, 2021. In this capacity, Martin Becker-Rethmann will join the Group’s Executive Committee and will report to Thierry Mallet, Chairman and CEO. With an ann...

Hyzon Motors announced today a business combination with blank-cheque company Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corporation (DCRB), with the goal of being publicly listed on Nasdaq. The merge includes a 400 million dollars investment. Hyzon Motors joins a series of next generation commercial vehicle ...