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Safra is partnering with the Michelin’s subsidiary Symbio to develop a French-made hydrogen bus. The bus, that belongs to the Businova range, has been recently launched and features, according to the manufacturer, a range of 300 km available after 30 minutes’ charging time. The first uni...

Iveco autonomous bus prototype is coming in early 2021. It is being developed in the framework of STAR project and thanks to a wide range of partnerships between Iveco Bus and a group of companies and laboratories. The main partner is anyway EasyMile, a French company that already developed and pres...

Nine US airports have so far decided to buy Proterra electric buses for ground transportation. Last but not least is Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) in North Carolina, that announced an order for five 35-foot (10.6 meter) Proterra Catalyst E2 zero emission buses. Five 125 kW Proterra p...

Berlin electric bus fleet ‘grows up’ thanks to a new order for no less than 90 Solaris Urbino 12 electric. They’ll be delivered to BVG from spring 2020 on and will feature electric heating system and pantograph for fast charging. The contract, including charging infrastructures, is...

The one held in Stockholm last week has been the «biggest edition yet» for the UITP Global Public Transport Summit, according to the figures released by the organization. In Sweden were gathered 474 exhibitors from 46 countries. The program was enriched by 53 sessions featuring 300 speaker...

Otokar took the chance of the UITP Summit 2019 to launch its first electric bus. 12 meter long, the e-Kent C (electric variant of the conventional ICE bus Kent C, diesel or gas fuelled) features a brand new design and will be available in Europe in 2020. Otokar has already started to participate to ...

A new supply is going to bring to 411 the zero emission buses in Santiago de Chile. A few days ago the Chilean Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications, Gloria Hutt, announced a new order for 183 BYD electric buses for the Chilean capital city. They are expected to arrive already in August ...

ABB portfolio of solutions for electric buses’ charging has been enriched with a new protagonist: the Swiss group has launched the flexible and automated Panto Up pantograph, designed to make recharging operations more efficient, especially in the case of large fleets of vehicles, where the ne...

Public transit leaders know that zero-emission buses are critical to the future of transit. In fact, many regions around the world are setting goals to convert entire fleets to zero emission operation. Electric buses are a well-proven solution. The challenge now is how to grow transit fleets from 10...

Take a standard diesel bus, remove the internal combustion engine and replace it with electric axle (by ZF) and battery pack. Here we are: a new (more or less…) electric bus is ready for the road. With the awareness that this is a compromise solution, useful during a transition period that may...