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ASSURED, the project co-funded by the European Commission (EC) to promote the electrification of urban transport vehicles, has on 21 October kicked off its first demonstration. Hosted by Volvo Buses, the Gothenburg launch marked the start of a series of demos taking place around Europe that will tes...

Yutong has been focusing on autonomous driving, and showed the results achieved so far during a live demonstration which saw the debut of the Yutong U12, presented at Busworld 2019 in Brussels. The U12 was in fact one of the two buses equipped with the driverless innovative technology, as also the Y...

Transdev puts its mark on Sweden and Netherlands. The French group has signed a series of public transport contract worth 1.2 billion euros in the Scandinavian country. These deals concern both traditional transportation modes (buses, trains) and innovative ones, with focus on battery-electric and h...

There’s no future for diesel buses in Singapore. The country will only buy electric or hybrid buses from now on. The goal? A full electrified bus fleet by 2040. An ambitious goal, as in Singapore there are some 5,400 buses to be converted in twenty years time (270 per year at a rough calculati...

VHH and MAN are working together to test how used batteries behave after initial use in vehicles and as a stationary energy storage system, under real-world operating conditions. To this end, in the Bergedorf quarter of Hamburg, a container with a total capacity of 500 kWh has been connected to the ...

Europe’s largest electric bus order goes to…. BYD. Yes, we know: we wrote it (and you read it…) plenty of time so far. Just a few weeks ago, Volvo Buses announced a 157 electric bus order in Sweden. Indeed: Europe’s largest electric bus order. At that time. Now it’s BYD...

Lyon gets a new autonomous shuttle service. Operated via Navya electric driverless vehicles in cooperation with Sytral and Keolis, the open-road experiment will be fully integrated within Lyon’s public transport network. Area? The Parc Olympique Lyonnais stadium. Another pilot involving a shuttle su...

BYD keeps receiving ebus orders from Norway. Unibuss, one of the main Norway’s principal public transport providers, has just ordered 23 12-meter electric buses by the Chinese manufacturer. Deliveries are scheduled in Q2 2020 for operation on routes in and around the Norwegian capital, Oslo. BYD cla...

Transdev and Volvo Buses (plus, of course, the city of Gothenburg) are the protagonist of the largest single order of electric buses so far signed in Europe. Volvo Buses will in fact deliver as many as 157 electric articulated buses in Gothenburg starting in 2020. The buses, as already reported on S...

A new ‘job’ for second-life batteries. Electric bus manufactuer Irizar is entering a partnership with Ibil in order to allow the reuse of the batteries at the end of their useful life on the vehicles (generally when the maximum capacity reaches 80 percent of the original capacity). Ibil,...