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Testing has begun on the infrastructure of the Metromare, the BRT line that links Rimini to Riccione, on the Adriatic sea in Italy. The new ruote, launched one year ago, will be operated by nine trolleybuses Van Hool Exqui.City 18. Three of them have landed in Italy so far, as the supply has been po...

Over 200 hydrogen buses ordered through the EU-backed JIVE and JIVE 2 projects. The announcement comes from the Joint Initiative for Hydrogen Vehicles across Europe project, co- financed by the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU). What is more, the first 50 buses are now in operation....

Traktionssysteme Austria, mostly known as TSA, is anything but a newcomer. It is 60 years so far that the Austrian company has been developing, designing and producing electromechanical drives for rolling stock. TSA’s motors power vehicles in around 60 countries all over the world. The core bu...

The electric bus market in North America is still nascent. Commitments to energy transition taken by states and municipalities are beginning to become numerous (California leading the way), and the coming years will be decisive for the deployment of large fleets of electric buses on the streets. Cha...

In this latest issue of Sustainable Bus magazine (that follows the first one out in May), just released, we have taken a glance ‘Beyond battery-electric’, dedicating a wide report to hydrogen bus technology and to a comparison between the main fuel cell buses today on European market (Ca...

Proterra has unveiled the H Series battery packs, a newest series which stands out for the customizable energy storage system. The new, narrower H Series battery packs were designed to package into standard truck frame rails and increase packaging flexibility for Proterra Powered customers, i.e. the...

Optimal Electric Vehicles is entering the electric bus market with the launch of the battery-electric S1LF Low-Floor shuttle bus for the North American market. The S1LF integrates a quasi-purpose-built Ford E450 chassis platform, which has been fully optimized with the vehicle body and achieves a lo...

The Italian city of Taranto is getting ready to move, in just a few years, to the role of forerunner of electric public mobility in the country, embracing the concept of the electric BRT system. A first European call for tender (focused on feasibility study and project works) has been launched ...

The six largest Danish municipalities have set a commitment to buy only zero emission buses from 2021 on. It means that, starting next year, all the new buses for public transport in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense, Aalborg, Vejle and Frederiksberg must be powered via electricity. Battery-electric and hy...

The German strategy on hydrogen gets the appreciation of the national transport association VDV, that consider hydrogen buses a feasible alternative for public transport services on long routes. The industry organization in fact welcomes the National Hydrogen Strategy adopted today in the Federal Ca...