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Dutch manufacturer Ebusco announces that at the beginning of April Bob Fleuren joined the management board of Ebusco as COO/Head of Programmes (PMO). From 1 May the board will be further strengthened by Will Bierens, who will perform the role of Chief Performance Officer (CPO). «Ebusco’s strong grow...

Leclanché develops 65 Ah high energy lithium-ion pouch cell addressed at the electric and hybrid bus and truck market. The new GL 65 Ah G/NMC (graphite/nickel manganese cobalt oxide) cells are specially designed for energy intensive applications. In February 2021 the Swiss company unveiled the new b...

Hess secured a framework contract for up to 70 battery-powered articulated trolleybus vehicles in Winterthur, in the German area of Switzerland. Now the awarding of the first lot is awaited within spring, with the first vehicle expected in the city by summer 2022. 11 to 23 units will be double-artic...

Today, representatives of Solaris have signed a contract for the supply of six electric Solaris buses for the Polish city of Szczecin within a period of 12 months from the contract being signed. The total value of the order settled at over PLN 16.5m. Last year Solaris won a tender of the city of Szc...

First series of the VDL Citea new generation ordered: transport operator Hermes (Transdev) aims for further greening of Eindhoven with 32 Citea, and will introduce in the operation a batch of vehicles from the new ‘family’ that will be launched this year (the unveiling was scheduled for ...

Safra and Symbio announce a deal to bring to the market 1,500 French-made fuel cell buses. Having already partnered up in designing France’s first hydrogen-powered bus, Safra, based in Albi, and Symbio (a subsidiary of Michelin and Faurecia) agreed terms to build as many as 1,500 buses to be fitted ...

25 MAN Lion’s City 12 E models are set to land in Copenhagen. They are due to be delivered to Anchersen A/S later this year, in an handover that will mark the first MAN e-bus deployment in Denmark. The largest e-bus order so far with MAN has been placed in Nuremberg. Also the Dutch company […...

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...