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Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), the Berlin public transport company, has placed an order for 50 Solaris Urbino 18 electric buses. The buses will be delivered in the years 2024 and 2025. The order can be extended by up to a further 650 articulated e-buses. In Madrid, EMT is going to receive 20 low-e...

First commercial success achieved by the newly-formed partnership between Indcar and Bluebus. Indcar has indeed been awarded a tender for 22 (+ 8 optional) 6-meter e-buses in Turin, offering the Bluebus 6m. According to a deal signed in mid 2023, Indcar has become exclusive distributor of the B...

Further Solaris electric buses are set to hit the roads of Milan. This time, the Italian metropolis will welcome 105 Urbino 18 electric buses. The delivery of the 105 articulated Solaris e-buses will start in first half of 2025. Also Iveco Bus has been winning a lot in the last tender issued by ATM ...

CATL and CaetanoBus announce they are entering in a supply partnership with the Chinese battery giant supplying to the Portuguese manufacturer lithium-ion batteries specifically designed for the demands of electric bus fleets. The focus is on LFP chemistry systems, featuring thermal runaway temperat...

Dakar recently introduced a fleet of electric Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) articulated buses (provided by Chinese CRRC). The delivery ceremony was held on November 28. Dakar Mobilité, owned by Meridiam (70%) and the Fonds souverain d’Investissements stratégiques du Sénégal (FONSIS), has also recently ann...

London’s largest bus operator, Go-Ahead London, states it has delivered a saving of 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over ten years of operation of emission-free electric buses on behalf of Transport for London. Go-Ahead London operates 520 zero emission buses on behalf of TfL and expects t...

MAN‘s “BeIntelli” project, developed with the Technical University of Berlin and IAV GmbH, is set to introduce intelligent traffic systems with autonomous vehicles in Berlin by spring 2024. In May 2023 MAN announced it has entered a cooperation with Intel-owned Mobileye. MAN Truck ...

Energy utility BC Hydro is announcing Canada’s first vehicle-to-grid pilot project for medium and heavy-duty vehicles that will enable electricity to be pushed back to the grid from the battery of an electric vehicle (EV). The project has been launched in cooperation with tourist operator...

The EU Parliament and Council have reached an agreeement on the next Euro 7 emissions standard. The new regulation “sets more adequate rules for vehicle emissions and aims to further lower air pollutant emissions from road transport, and for the first time it covers cars, vans, and he...

From 10 December 2023, the Geneva tram network, operated by TPG, will be extended in the direction of the French border. In fact, is now open for operation the new 2.7 km extension of the diametral line 15 from Grand-Lancy to the Plan des Ouates industrial zone (ZIPLO) with four new stops: Curé...