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American company QuantumScape, backed by Volkswagen and Bill Gates, announced it has discovered an electrolyte which would be set to allow extraordinary battery performance. QuantumScape says its solid-state battery (with lithium-metal anodes) can reach 800 cycles without loss of performance and is ...

Heliox is implementing RFID technology to ensure safe charging operations in Haarlem-IJmond (Netherlands). The supplier is partnering with Transdev-Connexxion, which is operating full electric bus fleets also in Amstelland-Meerlanden. For the Haarlem-IJmond concession, Heliox’s solution for secure c...

Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) and BYD Europe jointly announced today that 32 electric double deck buses supplied by their electric vehicle partnership to bus operator Stagecoach have contributed to better air quality in Greater Manchester during the region’s pandemic lockdowns, with 600,000 zero em...

By the end of December 145 Volvo Electric Articulated buses will be operating in Gothenburg, Sweden. Where the target is for all city buses in the region to be electric by 2030. Details and infos on how the deployment has been prepared are provided in a story published on Volvo Buses website. The bu...

ElringKlinger AG and VDL Bus & Coach have agreed on a strategic partnership within the area of fuel cell technology. The cooperation agreement, that will last until 2021, provides for the development and industrialization of fuel cell stacks and systems for mobile and stationary applications. In...

With 242 e-buses registered between January and September 2020 (over 23% of market share), Solaris Bus & Coach is at the moment leading the chart of battery-electric bus producers in Western European countries plus Poland. In the latter, Solaris domestic market, the Bolechowo-based manufacturer&...

The European Commission is allocating €23 million in grants for the purchase of electric buses and the conversion of depots to electricity and bio-gas in Île-de-France region. Through this funding, the European Commission is supporting the commitment of Île-de-France Mobilités and RATP towards an ec...

New tender has been opened for the purchase of 52 electric minibuses in Sofia (Bulgaria). The procurement has been issued by the public transport company Stolichen Avtotransport, as reported on SeeNews. The tender includes charging infrastructures. Tender for electric minibuses in Sofia It is the th...

Autocar Expo 2020 in Lyon, France, has been cancelled. The exhibition was scheduled for next week, on 14 to 16t October. The decision is due to the passage into the maximum alert zone of the city of Lyon, announced on 8 October 2020 by Olivier Véran, Minister of Health. The news is reported on the F...

Western European bus market 2020, a general collapse driven by Covid-19 emergency and lockdown measures. Yes, this is known. But, to what extent? The answer lies in the charts here displayed (with data collected by Chatrou – CME Solutions), where the sharp registration figures for the first fi...