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1,500 participants, 100 exhibitors, a deep dive into topics such as autonomous driving, skilled workers, infrastructure and digitalisation: Mobility Move 2025 kicked off on the evening of April 1st. Sustainable Bus is joining and reporting from Berlin. Mobility Move 2025: the kick-off Mobility Move ...

Forecasts by STRAT ANTICIPATION (“Risk assessment and success factors for mobility electrification”) indicate that in 2035, China will still have the highest demand for electric vehicle batteries, although its market share will decrease. At the same time, Europe is expected to double its demand for ...

Yutong has sold 47k buses in 2024, growing +24% on 2023.  In fact, in 2023 the Chinese group had reportedly sold around 36,000 buses (700 of those in Europe). Revenue? RMB 37.218 billion (around 4.7 billion euros) with a 37.63% year-on-year growth. Yutong has released its 2024 annual ...

Daimler Truck’s bus division Daimler Buses announces it has acquired a stake of 49 percent in the company Sinos GmbH, based in Regensburg, active in the field of software solutions for the operation of electrified city bus fleets and in particular intelligent charging management systems, allow...

Switch Mobility is considering to halt manufacturing and assembly activities in UK (Sherburn). The Board of Directors of parent company Ashok Leyland has indeed “approved commencement of consultation process with the employees which could potentially lead” to such decision.  At least 200...

Skoda will deliver a total of 46 trolleybuses to Esslingen, Germany. The local transport company – Städtischer Verkehrsbetrieb Esslingen am Neckar – has selected the Czech company as the winner of a tender to supply trolleybuses with a length of 12 metres and 18 metres for the further de...

Wiener Linien is introducing a new demo fuel cell bus from Hyundai, marking the first time a bus by the South Korean manufacturer rolls on European roads. The vehicle, as the operator explains in a press note, was developed by Hyundai in collaboration with Slovenian manufacturer TAM. What is notewor...

Scandinavian public transport company Nobina AB has entered a partnership with STABL Energy: decommissioned e-bus batteries will be repurposed in storage systems rather than subjected to recycling. Similar projects were launched in the past in Sweden, Poland, Spain and the Netherlands. Following a s...

Vancouver, a Canadian city of 631,000 inhabitants, is relying heavily on trolleybuses and has announced the renewal of its trolleybus fleet, which is being considerably expanded for the occasion. The new fleet, which will be made available to Translink, the public transport operator of Greater Vanco...

Ebusco has confirmed today, March 26th, key changes to its leadership team following the approval of all resolutions at its Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM). The appointments mark a significant shift in the company’s governance, particularly with the inclusion of representatives from Gotion, refl...