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Something is happening in the largest bus market in Europe. It looks like the German electric bus market switched gear last year. We discussed with Werner Overkamp, Vice President of the VDV (the Association of German Transport Companies) and Chairman of the Board of Management of the Division Bus,...

Alfabus would be in first position to be awarded the tender issued by AMT Genoa for 30 12-meter electric buses. The news is reported on the Italian media Autobusweb. The one launched by the public transport company of Genoa stands out for being the first tender in Italy to gather a broad participati...

From powering a bus around Stockholm to powering Extreme E’s remote operations. It’s the journey made by a Zenobe-owned battery system as the company announces it is charge of providing a second-life battery to Extreme E’s site operations. These include the team garages and critical broadcast ...

676 e-buses were in operation in Germany at the end of 2020 (over half of them were registered in 2020). And the purchase of further 3,100 e-buses is already planned. And there are already concrete, publicly known plans for a further almost 4,800 e-buses. Such figures are collected in the lately pub...

Four fast charging stations in Milan have started operation a few days ago. They are installed in viale Zara and Piazza 4 Novembre (close to Central Station). Thanks to the new devices, route 82 is set to become 100% electric. These first four charging stations are to be followed by further four, al...

11 high level speakers, 1,649 registrations, over 1,000 single viewers. These are the main figures about the first event of the Sustainable Bus Tour 2021, on air the 6th May 2021. And now available online on our Youtube channel (and below). Topic? ‘The electric depot. Charging and managing lar...

Daimler Buses has in fact partnered with the GUW+ model project: in a new rectifier substation operated by ÜSTRA Hannoversche Verkehrsbetriebe AG, a stationary energy storage unit has been implemented which uses battery systems previously installed in fully electric eCitaro urban buses. The developm...

One year after the launch, the consortium Vėjo projektai, producer of Lithuanian-made Dancer electric bus highlights that the two first buses have been running for over 120,000 km. The vehicle is in operation under the livery of the operator Klaipėdos autobusų parkas, in the city of Klaipeda in Lith...

E-buses in Ostrava (Czech Republic) will rely on Siemens charging infrastructure. Ostrava Transit Authority has in fact turned to the German group concerning the supply of charging stations for 24 electric buses that have been commissioned to Solaris. The order includes a software to automatically a...

How to manage large fleets of e-buses? How to deal between the necessity of a sufficient daily range and the efficient distribution of the appropriate charging infrastructures? Slow charging or fast charging? The transition to zero emission buses in city public transport must be based not only on a ...