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Bus registrations in European Union grew 10% in the first quarter of 2024, compared to the first three months of last year, as recorded by ACEA, the association of European manufacturers. However, their share slightly decreased to 12.3% of the total bus market (from 13.7% in Q1 2023). The first quar...

Next Mobility Exhibition in Milan will host the kick-off of Sustainable Bus Tour 2024, that after 3 years of being conducted digitally, will be built this year around two in-person conferences. “Balance Shifts in Public Transport: Operators and Industry in the Energy Transition Era,” is ...

Primary Chinese battery maker CATL has recently unveiled a LFP EV battery model promising over 1,000 km driving range. The launch event happened at the latest Beijing Auto Show, held until a few days ago in the Chinese capital city. CATL new LFP battery for +1,000 km range The current generation of ...

Next Mobility Exhibition 2024 is ready to go live on 8-10 May in Milan: on the rich menu of the expo, the manufacturers’ proposals – obviously in the name of energy transition, with electric and hydrogen as the main technological players – represent the main courses. Here, then, is...

"Cleaner buses, bigger fleets. That’s what the bus sector itself sees as the future of the bus in Europe", UITP says presenting its newly-released "Bus Fleet Survey 2023", initiative of the UITP Vehicles and Equipment Industry Committee, based on a survey conducted on 54 organisations (40 PTOs and 1...

SWO Mobil in Osnabrück has ordered 19 Mercedes-Benz eCitaro buses, following Europe-wide tender. They are set to be delivered from 2025. The total capacity of the five 98.3 kWh battery packs installed on each of the buses amounts to 491.5 kWh and “enables them to cover an operating range of a...

A few months ago Solaris won tender in Rome for delivery of 110 mild hybrid buses. In last days Solaris has won order for the delivery of 244 CNG buses for the ATAC carrier in Rome (out of a framework agreement for up to 322 vehicles). With the maximum use of options by the ordering party, both cont...

2,400 participants (20 percent more than in 2022) attended Bus2Bus 2024, ‘populated’ by 140 exhibitors from 20 countries. The expo was live on 24-25th Aprile and dates are already scheduled for the next edition: April 15 and 16, 2026. Well, what have we seen at the expo? At the forefront...

Siemens Smart Infrastructure has completed the first successful 1MW charge, in a pilot which brought together a prototype MCS charging station from Siemens and a long-haul prototype eTruck by Mercedes (eActros 600). The technology, if commercially implemented, might be quite a gamechanger also in th...

Wrightbus has signed another deal for hydrogen bus supply in Germany: 46 vehicles have been indeed ordered by Cottbusverkehr GmbH and will serve the city of Cottbus, the second largest city in the state of Brandenburg, and and in the western part of the district of Spree-Neiße. The first buses are d...