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25 natural gas buses (with option for further 30) have been put out on a tender in Grenoble, where the latest diesel buses are going to be replaced to less polluting CNG-powered vehicles. The call for tender has been launched on 17th March by Sémitag, as reported on Gaz-mobilite.fr. The buses will h...

More than $24 million fundings to replace diesel-powered transit buses with new all-electric transit buses in the state of New York. The announce of the availability of such grants comes from the State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the New York State Energy Research and Developm...

Change at the helm of CNH Industrial: the Board announces that it has accepted the resignation of Hubertus Mühlhäuser as Chief Executive Officer and appointed Suzanne Heywood as Acting Chief Executive Officer, in addition to her role as Chair of the Board. She will lead the business «through this cu...

CNH Industrial announced today that, in light of the supply chain constrains caused by the COVID-19 emergency in Europe, it is suspending the majority of its European assembly operations for a two week period. This suspension applies to the Company’s agricultural, construction, commercial and specia...

The Polish market asks for further e-buses, Solaris to provide two 8.9 vehicles in Bolesławiec. The domestic manufacturer has secured another contract for the delivery of electric buses on the Polish market. The representatives of Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. have signed a contract with the mayor of...

Proterra announced yesterday that the Board of Directors has appointed current Chairman Jack Allen as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Ryan Popple, Proterra’s CEO since 2014 (after having spent two years at Tesla), was named Co-Founder and Executive Director. Proterra began planning for this tr...

Due to the worsening situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Daimler Group announces it has decided today to suspend the majority of its production in Europe, as well as work in selected administrative departments, for an initial period of two weeks. Scania group will stop production in Sweden, the ...

Scania announces that the group «plans to stop operations at most of its European production units on Wednesday next week (25 March) due to component shortages and the major disruptions that have occurred in the supplier and logistics chain as a result of the spread of COVID-19 in Europe». Expectati...

Akasol second battery production line in Langen goes into operation six months ahead of schedule. The capacity of the plant, that Akasol claim it’s Europe’s largest production site for battery systems, will increase to 800 MWh per year. Serial production of second-generation battery systems is...

In late January 2020 the first five new trolleybuses by Solaris – Škoda Electric reached their destination city Saint-Etienne. A supply that marks the debut of the Trollino range in the French market. The local transport company will gradually acquire a total of 22 new modern trolleybus vehicl...