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Marie-Ange Debon has been appointed as new Keolis Group Executive Chairwoman. The decision was taken unanimously by the Supervisory Board of Keolis Group, under the presidency of Joël Lebreton, during a Supervisory Board that was held on Tuesday 28 July 2020. Marie-Ange Debon will begin at the new p...

Electric bus energy consumption? 1.63 kWh/km for the 18-meter buses, 1.15 kWh/km for the 12-meter vehicles. These are the average consumption observed after a 10-months-long collection of data realized by Dutch telematic company ViriCiti, which has just released a dedicated report on e-bus performan...

The shipping of BYD ADL e-buses to New Zealand is ready to begin, following the order secured in autumn 2019. The eight vehicles will represent the very first Enviro200EV 11.6m length with 348kWh of battery capacity to be ever delivered (this new variant was launched in September 2019). They’l...

Keolis got a four-year extension worth 500 million euros to manage a fossil-free bus fleet in Stockholm, Sweden. This fleet is due to be composed by 335 vehicles with biogas, biodiesel or hybrid driveline. The extension was awarded on 3 July 2020 by the Swedish public transport authority (PTA) Stors...

With 21 e-buses delivered and 19 on their way to the operator, Edmonton Transit Service (ETS) is now deploying one of the largest battery-electric bus fleet in Canada. Together with the presentation of the 21 new vehicles, produced by California-based manufacturer Proterra, ETS unveiled its purpose-...

Yutong in Turin. Allegedly, the Chinese manufacturer won the tender for 100 electric buses launched at the beginning of the year by GTT. This information has not been confirmed so far by the Turin public transport operator. It would be a first time in Italy for Yutong. In the Italian city several BY...

Busworld India 2020 cancelled. Next edition in 2022. Taking into consideration the current state of affairs and caution advisories still in place by the Indian government, the organisers of Busworld India – Busworld and Messe Frankfurt Trade Fairs India Pvt Ltd in consultation with stakeholder...

Heliox is the selected charger infrastructure partner for Stadtwerke Bonn Verkehrs Gmbh (SWB) and ENTEGA AG Darmstadt. With regards to German activities, in 2019 Heliox, which is based in Amsterdam, already implemented charging infrastructure in the cities of Mannheim, Heidelberg and Aachen. And rig...

Western European bus market 2020, a general collapse driven by Covid-19 emergency and lockdown measures. Yes, this is known. But, to what extent? The answer lies in the charts here displayed (with data collected by Chatrou – CME Solutions), where the sharp registration figures for the first fi...

«Turning a diesel bus into a part-time electric bus». It’s the target of BAE Systems Series-ER electric hybrid technology, which is gaining ground in several markets as it enable a reduction in polluting emission from the tailpipe without the need of heavy infrastructure works. BAE Systems is ...