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Wrightbus has chosen Forsee Power‘s ZEN PLUS battery systems to convert more than 1,000 diesel buses into electric ones over the next 3 years, the battery supplier says, within the newly-launched NewPower enterprise. Wrightbus has made repower a strategic development axis and established into ...

Maximum battery capacity of 12-meter buses available on the European market has been increasing, on average, of 34% in the last 4 years. And the number of bus models with +400 kWh on board possible has increased 9-fold. It’s just one of the findings of the study “Electrification trends in loca...

In 2023 nearly 2,500 zero-emission buses have been awarded in Italy for an investment of 1.8 billion euros. Most of those will have to be in operation by June 2026, according to the schedule of Next Generation Europe fundings. The “Electrification trends in local public transport” report...

Stagecoach has confirmed a further 158 e-buses ordered from Pelican Bus and Coach, as Yutong’s UK dealer announces. Yesterday it was announced an order, also from the same operator, for as many as 244 Alexander Dennis e-buses. Further to the recent 23 single decks delivered to Sheffield, Pelic...

The Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) is bringing the 12th annual Zero Emission Bus Conference (ZEB Con) to the East Coast for the first time. It’ll be scheduled on August 27-29 in Philadelphia, PA. ZEB Con will convene bus and shuttle fleet managers, industry professionals, ...

244. This is the number of e-buses ordered by Stagecoach following the UK Government’s Zero-Emission Regional Bus Areas scheme (ZEBRA 2) award. The operator has then placed the largest single order of Alexander Dennis’ zero-emission buses to date (including the first order for the OEM’s new in...

Hispacold announces it has acquired a concession in the free trade zone of the Port of Seville by the Port Authority. The Spanish company, already based in the same city, will therefore relocate its operations to new strategically located facilities. In this way Hispacold expect to “increase p...

The Mobility House and Green Energy Storage Initiative SE (GESI Giga Batteries), a project developer of large-scale battery storage systems, have founded a joint venture whose goal is to build and commercialize large-scale battery storage systems to accelerate the next phase of the energy transition...

A successful facelift, and more. That’s right, because the Iveco Bus Crossway has won the Red Dot Award, in the Product Design category, for the new front end and new dashboard of the new generation of Europe’s best-selling Class II. The award ceremony was held at the Red Dot Museum in E...

Diesel refuelling tank has been removed forever at First Bus depot in York. It means the bus depot now operates its fleet only using electric charging and becomes the first in Yorkshire to do so.   First York now has a fleet of 86 zero emission buses. Also early generation e-buses repowered with new...