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The road is paved for the transition of Hamburger Hochbahn bus fleet to electric drive. The 20 Mercedes eCitaro and 10 Solaris Urbino 12 Electric are just the stepping stones for a plan that aims at the introduction to no less than 530 electric buses between 2021 and 2025, including both battery and...

The operator owns the bus, the energy company owns the batteries (and the charging infrastructures). That’s how Abellio and Zenobe Energy, together, are bringing 34 electric buses to London, according to a new scheme aimed at ‘setting free’ the operator from a series of issues rela...

New German contract for the Mercedes eCitaro. ÜSTRA, public transport provider in Hanover, concluded a framework agreement for 48 units of the fully electric Mercedes city bus. The first four already ordered eCitaro buses will be delivered this year already. All of the eCitaro models in this large o...

Ekoenergetyka Polska secures a new commission for charging stations in Norway. The Polish company announced it has signed a framework agreement with the PTA Brakar AS for the delivery of a fast charging depot that will be built in Drammen city, a 70,000 people’s town some 40 km south west of O...

The Mercedes Citaro with natural gas drive (and mild hybrid module) gains ground in the Netherlands. From the end of August the EBS public transport company will be operating 93 of such vehicles in the Rotterdam – The Hague metropolitan area. The fleet is made up of 83 Citaro NGT hybrid solo b...

The Polish city of Ostrów Wielkopolski commissioned six Solaris Urbino 12 electric buses. The contract value amounts to slightly over PLN 16 million (3.5 million euros). In the city, four electric buses by Solaris have been riding on the streets since 2017. Pursuant to the newly signed contract, the...

Zaragoza took delivery of 17 new Volvo hybrid buses. The vehicles have been incorporated into the Avanza fleet. The new buses bring the average age of the public transport fleet of the Spanish city to a reduction of 8 per cent, thus stating at 8.3 years. Further 18 hybrid buses will soon be introduc...

August 2019 is the birth month of Proterra Powered project, a new initiative that see the Californian manufacturer ready to make its electric vehicle platform available for the needs of OEMs. The path is open to a new series of partnerships on the development of heavy duty commercial vehicles. Batte...

Daimler Buses has equipped its Mannheim bus plant with a central charging station for the electric bus Mercedes eCitaro. The new system can also be used to fill eCitaro’s batteries with electricity via a pantograph. The special feature of this charging station, Daimler points out, is that the ...

New York gets greener with New Flyer. After the order for 15 ebuses from New York City Transit, New Flyer has been chosen from the Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA) for the supply of four forty-foot (12 meter), battery electric buses Xcelsior CHARGE. New Flyer Infrastructure Solutions...