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On 10 October the Italian newspaper La Stampa published an article entitled: “Contract has been cancelled, electric buses remain in China“. A content that points the finger at the 100 electric bus tender for the operator GTT Torino. A story that the bus world has followed from the beginn...

Solaris has launched its first electric intercity bus. The Urbino 15 Low Entry Electric, launched today during an online event, is based on a platform designed only for electric technology. It can be deployed both in Class I and Class II routes. The vehicle will be tested in regular operations for t...

Transports Publics Fribourgeois (TPF) is preparing to put new battery-powered trolleybuses into service. These vehicles will operate in the Fribourg conurbation using only 28% of a contact line. The news is reported on the local media Journal du Jura. Ten battery-powered trolleybuses for Fribourg On...

UITP India in September initiated a project with World Bank Group on electric mobility. UITP India participated in the two stage request for proposal (RFP) with Steer Davies Gleave India Pvt Ltd (Steer Group) as the lead. The project includes market assessment, business models and action plan for el...

Skeleton Technologies enters a cooperation with Wrightbus, a leading bus OEM headquartered in Northern Ireland specialized in hydrogen buses, in which the company will supply its next generation high energy ultracapacitor modules to power fuel cell buses in the UK. It is worth mentioning that Wright...

Arrival announced it has raised $118 million from funds managed by BlackRock. The fundraising will be used to support execution of the company’s growth plans as it ramps up vehicle production, including the launch of Arrival’s first U.S. Microfactory in South Carolina where 10,000 vans or 1,000 buse...

In December, 22 e-buses will be on Drammen’s roads, in Norway. Two of them are articulated vehicles and will be operating on line 3. There will also be a new, and completely electric, line between Lierbyen school and Gulskogen! The charging stations for the electric buses are now under install...

Cummins and Bustech, Australia’s largest supplier of transit buses designed, engineered and manufactured in Australia, announced an agreement to build the next generation Bustech XDi low floor transit bus using Cummins zero-emission battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell technologies. The agreement...

CaetanoBus was selected as the supplier to deliver four hydrogen buses to Bielefeld’s Transport Company in Germany. The operator is moBiel GmbH, and these will be the first hydrogen buses in the history of the company. They’ll be tested on a bus line in the city. The investment will be subsidi...

Dutch telematics company ViriCiti announces it has started rolling out the largest Smart Charging implementation in the public transportation sector (with the exception of China). In total 163 charger connectors (both plugin & pantograph) managed by Qbuzz are connected to the ViriCiti dashboard....