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Turkish bus manufacturer Karsan is establishing an electric vehicles laboratory. As part of its efforts to contribute to vocational training in the automotive industry, Karsan announced it has signed a “Protocol of Collaboration in Vocational and Technical Training” with Bursa Governor and Bursa Pro...

450 electric buses on Moscow’s roads. The major bus operator of the city, Mosgortrans, launched in August its zero emission bus. The vehicle is manufactured by the domestic company Kamaz. The city now prides itself to have one of the largest e-bus fleet in the world (China excluded). Since 201...

Enel X and AMP Capital: electric public transportation in Latin America in the spotlight. The two companies have launched a joint venture to accelerate the adoption of electric buses in the region through innovative business models. A practice already inaugurated in Santiago de Chile, where 433 BYD ...

EU-project BIOMOTIVE is seeking to develop bio-based products for automotive industry in order to replace non-biodegradable interior parts on vehicles with its biobased equivalent. The first results are promising and after industrial-scale tests planned in 2020, a bio-based thermoplastic polyurethan...

Proterra has unveiled the H Series battery packs, a newest series which stands out for the customizable energy storage system. The new, narrower H Series battery packs were designed to package into standard truck frame rails and increase packaging flexibility for Proterra Powered customers, i.e. the...

The German operator In-der-City-Bus GmbH (ICB) has ordered the Caetano e.City Gold for Frankfurt public transport system. The carrier, subsidiary of Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main group, signed a contract for two vehicles whose delivery is scheduled for late 2020. They’ll be the first Caetano e....

RET (Rotterdamse Elektrische Tram), one of the largest local operators in the Netherlands, is now monitoring 198 buses and 45 chargers using ViriCiti’s telematics system. The public transport operator chose ViriCiti as the preferred monitoring solution for the reliability of its data, its data integ...

The Schaffhausen electric bus project, Switzerland, is ready to begin: the Federal Office of Transport has approved the two vehicles (ordered in March 2019), which means they will soon be allowed on the road. Anyhow, the testing sessions are not over yet. 15 Irizar e-buses (seven Irizar ie bus 12 me...

Solaris delivered its first electric bus in Poland in 2015. Today over 150 of these zero-emission vehicles cruise the streets of 20 Polish cities. Another batch of over 300 vehicles are currently in production or shortly before delivering. In the coming months the Solaris electric buses fleet in Pol...

10 double decker electric buses have been delivered by the JV between Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) and BYD Europe to National Express for operation in Coventry, as part of a wider investment in 29 zero emission BYD ADL Enviro400EV. The first 19 were delivered in Birmingham in July. The batteries o...