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Luxembourg City has welcomed a new batch of 10 Volvo 7900 Electric buses, following a Europe-wide call for tenders issued in 2019. The contract was awarded to Volvo Bus in January 2020 (although the number of vehicles was at that time disclosed to be 17), and the buses were delivered in November 202...

First delivery in Europe for the electric midibus Iveco E-Way 9.5-meter. The first out of 3 units of the battery-electric vehicle has just been delivered Italy by Iveco Bus’ dedicated dealer Maresca & Fiorentino of Bologna to the public transport company TPER. The remaining two are expected in t...

MZA Warsaw has just taken delivery of the 20,000th bus ever produced by Solaris Bus & Coach. This handover involves the last of the 130 electric bus units supplied to the capital of Poland following the order secured in summer 2019 (the first bus was delivered in end March). Solaris announced ye...

Barcelona plans that from now on only clean buses will be bought, meaning battery-electric, hydrogen and gas-hybrid vehicles. TMB’s commitment to reducing emissions and decarbonization has the goal of reaching 2030 with more than 50% of the bus fleet made of electric buses (23 units are expect...

Siemens Smart Infrastructure won a major contract from Hamburger Hochbahn, the largest local transport provider in the Hanseatic city. Siemens will equip two of the six carports at the Alsterdorf bus depot with a total of 96 charging points as well as medium and low-voltage technology. Operations ar...

Cologne’s RVK is testing a Caetano hydrogen bus. Until mid-January, the 12-meter Caetano H2.CityGold will be tested in the metropolitan area of Cologne, Germany. The operator will receive 15 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen in the future that will join 30 fuel cell buses by Van Hool. The same vehicle has ...

Euro Mobility Expo 2020 will be held in a full digital mode. Initially scheduled for 24-26 June, then postponed to 15-17 December, on 28th October the organizers communicated that the face-to-face event has to be cancelled due to the pandemic.

Yesterday, 13 December 2020, Keolis began operating 246 fully electric buses in the Netherland’s eastern provinces of Gelderland and Overijssel (IJssel-Vecht region). This deployment is set to cut around 16,000 tonnes of CO2 from Keolis’ environmental footprint per year, the operator poi...

American company QuantumScape, backed by Volkswagen and Bill Gates, announced it has discovered an electrolyte which would be set to allow extraordinary battery performance. QuantumScape says its solid-state battery (with lithium-metal anodes) can reach 800 cycles without loss of performance and is ...

Heliox is implementing RFID technology to ensure safe charging operations in Haarlem-IJmond (Netherlands). The supplier is partnering with Transdev-Connexxion, which is operating full electric bus fleets also in Amstelland-Meerlanden. For the Haarlem-IJmond concession, Heliox’s solution for secure c...