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Nova Bus announces it has been awarded a 5-year contract for up to 53 LFSe+, the 40’ (12-meter) battery electric bus model, by the Canadian City of Regina, Saskatchewan. The first 7 buses are scheduled to be delivered in 2025, Nova Bus states, with up to 46 buses in option for the remainder of the [...

Traton group sold 338,200 vehicles in 2023, 11% more than in the previous year (2022: 305,500). The increase in the Group’s unit sales “was the result of the very high order backlog, increasingly stable supply chains, and a higher production volume”, Traton states. On the other side, an ...

Northvolt announced the signing of a $5 billion non-recourse project financing to enable the expansion of Northvolt Ett in northern Sweden. The deal represents the largest green loan raised in Europe to date.  In addition to the expansion of Northvolt Ett’s cathode production and cell manufactu...

La Rochelle Conurbation is set to integrate 11 electric buses into its Yélo network as part of the “La Rochelle Territoire Zéro Carbone” (La Rochelle Zero Carbon Territory) initiative. These electric vehicles are supplied by the Iveco-Heuliez group and manufactured at the Heuliez plant i...

We had already written about it in September 2023. Hydrogen is one of the paths firmly taken by Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) to make its bus fleet zero-emission. And so TMB has made official the purchase of 36 Solaris-signed 12-meter buses for a total of 23,396,400 euros (Urbino 12 H2...

A global chemical giant for battery chemistry and recycling. Iveco Group, in fact, has chosen Basf as its first partner for recycling electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries. This step is part of Iveco Group’s circular economy strategy, which follows the framework of the 4Rs – Repair, Ref...

Nottingham City Transport (NCT), the English city’s public transport operator, is set to welcome twenty-four new Yutong signature electric buses to its fleet, costing £400,000 each per unit. Source of pictures: Nottingham City Transport Yutong electric buses for Nottingham City Transport Yuton...

Moventis put UNVI’s electric minibus eC24s to testing in late 2023. The eC24s body was presented at the last Busworld and is ready for series production on an electric chassis from the second quarter of 2024, UNVI says in a press note. This prototype has been developed within the eCIM (e-Conne...

A new tender in Santiago de Chile has been issued in mid-December 2023 to renew 30 percent of the public transport system Red Movilidad. The tender provides for the introduction in the network of 1,200 zero emission buses (out of 2,100 new buses) and ’embraces’ 121 routes (15 of those ar...

ACEA announced that Domenico Nucera, President of the Bus Business Unit in Iveco Group, has been appointed as Chairperson of its bus and coach division. Domenico Nucera has been elected for a one-year term. DAF Trucks President Harald Seidel has just been elected Chairman of Commercial Vehicles in t...