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Hitachi Europe and Arrival have partnered to deliver new bus and infrastructure solutions to the European bus industry. The non-exclusive partnership combines Hitachi’s digital and operational capabilities with Arrival’s products, which have the goal of being competitive in price with fossil fuel al...

ViriCiti has been chosen by e-Traction as the standard telematics partner for all the electric buses retrofitted by the Dutch company. ViriCiti has already in force partnerships with Ebusco and Gillig, among others. e-Traction is active in the field of retrofitting ICE buses to electric drive, imple...

600,000 e-buses on the road globally today (39% of new sales and 16% of the global fleet). 98% of e-bus sold in 2020 were in China, but by 2025, electric bus sales outside of China are expected to hit 14,000, up from 5,000 in 2020. «Buses and two- and three-wheelers are the biggest near-term opportu...

Bravo, owner of Citybus and New World First Bus, is supporting Hong Kong’s Carbon Neutrality Task Force in considering hydrogen solutions for the future decarbonization of the region’s public transport. As an advocate of clean energy mobility solutions, Bravo was delighted to be invited to pre...

Nine Irizar zero-emission electric buses will start to operate shortly in the city of Barcelona on line H16 (Pg. Zona Franca – Fòrum Campus Besòs). These units are in addition to the four Irizar buses that have been operating in the City since 2019. With the entry into service of the new ...

A diesel-powered bus (namely an Iveco Crossway) is going to be retrofitted into fuel cell technology in the framework of a pioneeristic project carried out by Transdev Normandie and the Normandy Region, together with an extensive list of partners from the institutional, industrial and academic secto...

To what extent weather and heating have consequences on electric bus range? It’s the subject of a research by Saga Tenix and the research institute NORCE, based on 30,000 bus departures operated by Norgesbuss, in Norway. Bergen-based company Saga Tenix AS, provider of electric bus telematics s...

Lion Electric announced that the company’s upcoming battery manufacturing plant and innovation center will be located at the YMX International Aerocity of Mirabel, Quebec. The announcement comes amidst increased expansion of the company’s operations, having recently announced the construction o...

Battery-electric buses in the urban category, gas-powered vehicles (except one) in the intercity segment and clean diesel products for the coach category. The Sustainable Bus Award is back in order – after the cancellation of 2021 edition – to deliver, in Q3 2021, the fourth edition of t...

Akasol takeover has been completed: BorgWarner is now owner of 89% of the battery systems producer’ shares. The Darmstadt-based company announced today that «Shareholders of Akasol have accepted the voluntary public takeover offer by ABBA BidCo AG, a subsidiary of BorgWarner, after the extende...