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IAA Transportation 2022 will be presenting the current and future trends in logistics and transport from 20 to 25 September in Hannover. The four IAA Conference theme days, lasting from 20 to 23 September 2022, make up an important part of the new event concept. IAA Transportation 2022 is awaited as...

Daimler Buses is going to be present at VDV’s industry conference “Elekbu” in Berlin with a Mercedes eCitaro and its digital service offerings from OMNIplus ON. More generally, the Stuttgart-based manufacturer will be presenting comprehensive and sustainable solutions for the electromobility o...

741 Yutong e-buses delivered: one of the largest electric bus fleet in the world is ready to operate during 2022 FIFA World Cup that is set to take place from 21 November to 18 December 2022. The order for 1,002 e-buses (plus service) was signed in November 2020. 741 battery-electric vehicles were p...

Impact Clean Power Technology is building a battery plant in Poland, named GigafactoryX. The investment will multiply the company’s production capacity up to 5 GWh per year, company says (today the company has a current daily production of 1 MWh). Impact Clean Power Technology (ICPT) battery s...

The number of e-buses in operation in West Yorkshire is set to grow, according to plans approved by West Yorkshire Combined Authority: 111 e-buses are awaited in the first phase, with another batch for 126 to follow. The new vehicles would be part of the West Yorkshire Zero Emission bus program...

Arriva Group has announced the appointment of Sian Leydon to the role of Managing Director for Mainland Europe, reporting directly to the Arriva Group CEO Mike Cooper, effective from 4 July 2022. Sian Leydon has been an Arriva Management Board member since March 2021 when she joined the business as ...

Nordjyllands Trafikselskab (NT), the public transport authority for Northern Denmark, awarded Keolis a new contract to operate and maintain a fossil free network of 31 buses in Northern Jutland, which notably covers Aalborg and its surroundings.  The contract is set to begin on 1st August 2022 and i...

In Canada Karsan enters the North American market. A e-Jest, the leading model of the electric minibus market in Europe for two consecutive years, has been delivered to the Canadian city of Saint John in cooperation with Karsan’s distributor Damera. A fleet of six Karsan vehicles will start offering...

All-electric powertrains provider Lightning eMotors is giving gasoline and diesel vehicles a second, zero-emissions life by repowering a variety of passenger transit vehicles for shuttle service providers to some of the leading tech companies located throughout Silicon Valley. The all-electric vehic...

MAN Truck & Bus is establishing large-scale production of batteries for electric trucks and buses at Nuremberg site, until now known as a historical place for combustion engine manufacturing. The group will invest around 100 million euros (securing 350 jobs in Nuremberg). Planned battery manufac...