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Akasol‘s plant in Darmstadt will have fully automated production lines for battery modules supplied by Manz AG. The German supplier, which cooperates with Mercedes for the eCitaro battery equipment, expects to inaugurate the Gigafactory 1 at the new Darmstadt Headquarter Campus by the middle o...

Nearly 12 per cent of city buses registered in 2019 were battery-electric. In the only 2019, there were more e-bus registration than in the period 2012 – 2018. In Western Europe and Poland, as already anticipated, 2019 was a record year with regards to the transition to zero emission buses. Th...

An electric coach for Indian bus market. The joint venture between BYD and Olectra launched last week the 12-meter intercity coach named C9. The partners (which have already some 200 e-buses in operation in India) expects to deploy as many as 300 units in India by the end of 2020. According to a rep...

Yutong has a new exclusive dealer in Europe, with focus on Baltic markets (Lithuanian, Latvia, Estonia) and Poland. BUSNEX has announced to be the European representative of the Chinese bus manufacturer. BUSNEX is part of AviaAM Leasing group, an holding company mainly active in the aviation field. ...

TSA is presenting a new generation of electric motors addressed at the electric bus market. Already today the Austrian supplier is among the partner of Solaris with regards to the trolleybus range. TSA central motor is also available on the battery-electric Urbino bus range. Now it’s time to u...

Solar panels on buses. FlixBus is launching a new project with the Dutch partner Kupers Touringcars. The solar panels installed on the bus are used to keep the battery charged: all on board equipment is then powered by solar energy. The novelty has allowed a reduction of 7 per cent in diesel consump...

A selection process has started in order to elect one city which will be receiving as many as 50 million pounds (some 80 million euros) to convert the whole bus fleet to electricity. The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced the launch of a fund addressed at the creation of England’s fi...

Ebusco zero emission buses will be delivered to Connexxion, in the Netherlands, in 156 units without any rearview mirror. Public transport company Connexxion (Transdev group) choose in fact to equip the whole battery-electric bus fleet with cameras. Mirrorless buses are expected to result more conve...

Ostrava in Czech Republic bets again on the Solaris Urbino 18 CNG. The Polish manufacturer, owned by the Spanish group CAF, has secured a new order for environmentally friendly buses. Pursuant to the contract signed between the manufacturer and public transport operator Dopravní podnik Ostrava, the ...

An hydrogen bus fleet is beginning operation with the livery of Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) in Santa Ana, California. The vehicles, model New Flyer Xcelsior CHARGE H2, were delivered a few days ago following the order signed in early 2018. The vehicle was announced to have complete...