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The Mobility House and Green Energy Storage Initiative SE (GESI Giga Batteries), a project developer of large-scale battery storage systems, have founded a joint venture whose goal is to build and commercialize large-scale battery storage systems to accelerate the next phase of the energy transition...

A successful facelift, and more. That’s right, because the Iveco Bus Crossway has won the Red Dot Award, in the Product Design category, for the new front end and new dashboard of the new generation of Europe’s best-selling Class II. The award ceremony was held at the Red Dot Museum in E...

Diesel refuelling tank has been removed forever at First Bus depot in York. It means the bus depot now operates its fleet only using electric charging and becomes the first in Yorkshire to do so.   First York now has a fleet of 86 zero emission buses. Also early generation e-buses repowered with new...

Ebusco says its current guidance of revenue in excess of €325 million combined with a positive EBITDA in 2024, released in March 2024, is no longer achievable. The change of strategy, heading towards assembly process (with partner in China) with only bus finalization to be done in Deurne, Netherland...

Rabobank's analysis is that it put down in black and white, with figures, the trend of increasing present of Chinese manufacturers in the European e-bus sector. "After 2017, market share of EU manufacturers declined from 74% to 54% in 2023. In the same period, Chinese manufacturers have increased th...

Alexander Dennis (NFI Group) has delivered the first of 19 zero-emission double-decker Enviro400EV for to Harrogate Bus Company, Transdev Blazefield, making it the second operator to receive next-generation ADL electric buses and the first to deploy them in a service with long, high-speed intercity ...

“Municipal buses continue to electrify at a rapid pace and exceed 60% of sales already by 2030, reaching 83% by 2040” states the latest Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) latest 2024 Electric Vehicle Outlook. Today municipal buses, estimated to be 3.4 million worldwide, emit no more tha...

Volkswagen Truck & Bus has started operational tests of a prototype electric bus powered with batteries fitted with NTO developed by CBMM together with Toshiba, an unprecedented use in the global automotive industry, as this technology allows for ultra-fast recharging. Also, according to the par...

Bus manufacturer Wrightbus has launched a new re-powering service by launching NewPower, a new entity headquartered at the former location of EV startup Arrival. The goal is that of “eradicating diesel powertrains in older fleets at a substantially lower price than a new bus”. Wrightbus ...

Solaris has secured new contracts to supply electric buses in the Scandinavian market, specifically the Swedish market. In fact, Nobina, Scandinavia’s largest operator, has ordered a total of 88 electric buses from the Polish manufacturer (CAF Group) for its fleet operating in three regions: S...