News

Around 10 vehicles today involved in pilot projects. 50 vehicles will start roll out of production lines in 2024 headed to the European and Middle East market. And discussions are in progress for partnerships with industrial players that might help the startup to scale up larger volumes. We just had...

Battery-electric technology is expected to replace ICE as the leading powertrain system for commercial vehicles by 2035, according to market intelligence firm Interact Analysis, that expects that almost 2.5 million battery electric commercial vehicles will be sold in 2035 compared with fewer th...

Electric bus and truck manufacturer Lion Electric, headquartered in Canada, announced “a workforce reduction aimed at rationalizing its cost structure and improving its ability to reach its profitability objectives”.  The reorganization affects 150 employees (approximately 10% of Lion’s total headco...

By the end of 2025, 94 Rampini electric midibuses will be running in Genoa. In fact, the 49 electric buses currently in circulation will be joined by another 45 units of the new Eltron type, which will strengthen Genoa’s public transport and make it even more sustainable: this is bound to be t...

Alexander Dennis confirmed Stagecoach as the launch customer for its recently-launched Enviro100EV small zero-emission bus. The purchase has been supported by the Scottish Zero-Emission Bus Challenge Fund (ScotZEB).  Stagecoach placed an order for 20 Enviro100EV ahead of the type’s launch and p...

Australia’s first trackless tram is on the road, in a trial that the City of Stirling (suburb of Perth, Western Australia) hopes will see this mid-tier transit become a future public transport service connecting Glendalough Train Station to the iconic Scarborough Beach precinct. The 30-metre-long ve...

by Usha Praveen Hyderabad-based startup Blackbuck EV has revealed photographs of their 3-axles electric bus model ELON 3X from pre-production. Blackbuck EV is a new entry in the Indian bus transportation market. Their efforts are focusing in the development of an ultra-lightweight, modular e-bus pla...

European manufacturers’ association ACEA has unveiled its own manifesto and roadmap for a competitive mobility ecosystem (the full version is available here). It’s an attempt to make the manufacturers’ voice clear ahead of the COP 28 climate conference starting today, November 30, in Dubai. Th...

In a self-managed test entitled ‘the MaxiMile Challenge’, VDL Bus & Coach’s new generation Citea achieved the result of more than 24 hours of continuous driving, covering a range of over 500 kilometres. VDL Bus & Coach deployed one of the new generation Citea demo vehicles ...

Which the average range of an electric bus? This is one of the main questions that public transport operators and authorities are asking themselves when they are dealing with a product, the battery-electric bus, which does not yet have a sufficient track record to allow certain evidence. Certai...