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Leclanché has developed a modular battery system optimized for powering new and retrofit hybrid and fully electric commercial vehicles. The system is called INT-39 Energy and is said to be powered with high density and high life cycle 60 Ah G/NMC lithium-ion cells and features the company’s propriet...

Hamburger Hochbahn AG has commissioned PSI Transcom GmbH with the delivery of the depot management system PSItraffic/DMS for the metro area. The aim is to further digitize the processes involved in supplying vehicles to the workshops. HOCHBAHN has been using PSItraffic/DMS since 2014 to automate the...

Revenues from electrified powertrains in the truck and bus field will increase 24-fold from under $1bn in 2020, to $6.8bn in 2025 and then on to $22.7bn in 2030. It’s the forecast outlined by market research company Interact Analysis in the recent report Electrified Truck and Bus Powertrain Pr...

IPT Group has acquired Primove, the e-mobility inductive charging technology portfolio from Bombardier. With this acquisition, IPT combines two cleantech scale-ups in wireless power transfer for e-mobility benefiting from synergies, thereby accelerating IPT’s offering of a complete product portfolio...

Canada: TransLink has selected Nova Bus for a supply of 15 electric buses LFSe+. The vehicles are set to be in operation in Vancouver within Metro Vancouver’s transportation network.  TransLink will be adding these to their two LFSe vehicles delivered in 2019 as part of the Canadian Consortium...

New Flyer unveiled its Xcelsior AV automated bus, now in motion at Robotic Research, LLC in Maryland. The Xcelsior AV unveiling follows New Flyer’s launch of its Automated Technology Program first announced in May 2019, and the announcement of partnership with artificial intelligence and automation ...

Three quarters of buses sold by Iveco Bus in 2020 were powered with alternative drives. «It was a big win for non-diesel engine city buses that run on natural gas, in hybrid electric and in 100% electric mode. These alternative energies represented more than 77% of production, an increase of 17% com...

Decarbonisation of New Zealand public transport fleets: Alexander Dennis Limited welcomes the announcement by the New Zealand Government of NZD50 million funding (nearly 30 million euros) to help councils fully decarbonise their public transport bus fleet by 2035. ADL is to build zero emission buses...

Busworld Europe registered to date 303 exhibitors and sold 75% of its total space. Daimler Buses and Volvo Buses won’t be attending, but the other big players have confirmed. Following, we publish entirely a press release spread by Busworld in view of the exhibition scheduled in Brussels for O...

Today is the day of the launch for the world’s first fleet of double decker fuel cell buses. They are deployed in Aberdeen (Scotland) by First Bus in a project led by Aberdeen City Council. The vehicles are manufactured by Wrightbus. The city council makes public that plans are in place for Ab...