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Proterra and Daimler look at the electrification of North American school bus market. Together. Today Proterra announced that it has closed a $155 million investment round co-led by Daimler, the world’s largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles. Tao Capital Partners co-led the round, joined by G2V...

Yes, double decker buses are really not so common in US cities. While London is converting step by step its red double decker bus fleet to electricity, Foothill Transit (that operate just outside Los Angeles) has ordered its first buses of this kind. With electric drive as well. A double premiere on...

Not just New Flyer and BYD electric buses, but also Proterra vehicles will be put into service in order to support the Toronto Transit Commission (Ttc) goal to convert the entire fleet of 1,926 buses to zero-emission by 2040. The order means the debut of Proterra in Canadian market. The ten buses or...

Electric buses are becoming widespread in cities around the world. What about Tesla hitting the market with an electric bus model? Let’s start from the end: in October 2024 Elon Musk presented the Tesla Robovan, able to carry up to 20 passengers and autonomously-driven. The Verge website also ...

Electric bus adoption in public transport urban fleet is growing all over the world. It started in China, and it has taken a few years for other regions to start the transition. In the first half of 2024, according to ACEA’s figures, the European zero emission city bus market grew 45%, wi...

Zero emission buses adopted in the US have been growing 12 percent in 2023 according to CALSTART survey Zeroing on Zero-emission buses (that takes into account electric buses both ordered and deployed). A total of 6,147 vehicles are counted for the US (dated as of September 2023). In 2023, still acc...

Alexander Dennis has been awarded a contract to build 12 new battery-electric Enviro500EV double deck buses for Californian operator Foothill Transit, that will be serving the Silver Streak route to downtown Los Angeles. They will join two earlier Enviro500EV pilot buses which were delivered in 2021...

The Biden-Harris Administration has just hosted a Roundtable on Clean Bus Manufacturing to highlight the nation’s progress in transitioning to low- and zero-emission public transit buses, and to help address challenges facing the U.S. bus manufacturing industry during this transition, involving FTA,...

SAE Level-4 automated driving software platform provider Adastec has entered a partnership with commercial vehicles provider Vicinity Motor, based in North America. Outcome of the cooperation is the introduction on the market of the Vicinity Autonomous Lightning EV, a medium-duty, fully electrified,...

It’s not an entirely new development, as the world premiere took place at the IAA Transportation in Hannover in September 2022. After introducing the Novociti Volt as a midibus to the market, Isuzu has now available a full-sized urban bus, measuring 12 meters in length: the Citivolt 12. This i...