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Spotlight on the Citymood 12e by IIA: the VIDEO test drive

Manufactured in Flumeri, Southern Italy (some 100 km west of Naples), in one of the largest bus plants in Europe, the Menarini Citymood 12e, launched in late 2021, is the only standard size battery-electric bus featuring the ‘made in Italy’ label. It features a self-supporting steel fram…

Unleash the potential of your eBuses batteries, by PowerUp

The performance and safety evaluation of electric vehicle (EV) batteries is a multifaceted process that extends beyond reliance on a single key performance indicator. Instances of electric buses breakdowns or fires typically stem from a culmination of factors rather than a singular event.
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Robert Henrich new chairman of the board of Hamburger Hochbahn

A new chairman with the arrival of the new year. In fact, as of January 1, 2024, Robert Henrich, will take over as Chairman of the Board of Hamburger Hochbahn AG, succeeding Henrik Falk, who will move to Berlin, becoming Chairman of the Board of Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG). Reporting the news is…

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Twelve more Solaris Urbino electric buses for Warsaw

Solaris Bus & Coach will supply twelve articulated electric buses, model 18, in the coming two-year period 2024-2025. Twelve articulated ebuses will thus join the existing fleet of 150 Bevs signed by the Polish manufacturer for public transport in Poland’s capital city. The newly ordered b…

Repowering, KleanBus launches KleanDrive

A new development in the world of bus repowering: KleanBus introduces the KleanDrive umbrella company, through which its electrification technology to the entire transportation sector. The new business strategy represents the company’s evolution beyond buses, and extends beyond repowering to p…

Robert Henrich new chairman of the board of Hamburger Hochbahn

A new chairman with the arrival of the new year. In fact, as of January 1, 2024, Robert Henrich, will take over as Chairman of the Board of Hamburger Hochbahn AG, succeeding Henrik Falk, who will move to Berlin, becoming Chairman of the Board of Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG). Reporting the news is…

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Twelve more Solaris Urbino electric buses for Warsaw

Solaris Bus & Coach will supply twelve articulated electric buses, model 18, in the coming two-year period 2024-2025. Twelve articulated ebuses will thus join the existing fleet of 150 Bevs signed by the Polish manufacturer for public transport in Poland’s capital city. The newly ordered b…

Lion Electric lays off 10% of its workforce

Electric bus and truck manufacturer Lion Electric, headquartered in Canada, announced “a workforce reduction aimed at rationalizing its cost structure and improving its ability to reach its profitability objectives”.  The reorganization affects 150 employees (approximately 10% of Lion’s total headco…

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Repowering, KleanBus launches KleanDrive

A new development in the world of bus repowering: KleanBus introduces the KleanDrive umbrella company, through which its electrification technology to the entire transportation sector. The new business strategy represents the company’s evolution beyond buses, and extends beyond repowering to p…

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Solaris wins 322 CNG buses and 110 mild hybrid in Rome

Solaris has won both lots of the tender called by Giubileo 2025 spa for a total of 110 hybrid articulated city buses and as many as 322 CNG vehicles, of which 244 are to be supplied immediately plus 78 are subject to the approval of ATAC‘s new Economic and Financial Plan. The news is reported …

Unleash the potential of your eBuses batteries, by PowerUp

The performance and safety evaluation of electric vehicle (EV) batteries is a multifaceted process that extends beyond reliance on a single key performance indicator. Instances of electric buses breakdowns or fires typically stem from a culmination of factors rather than a singular event.
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Imagry, a mapless autonomous driving solution is possible

A new generation of software may bring about the breakthrough: location-independent autonomous driving, without infrastructure and mobile phone charges, without space-consuming data storage, but with self-learning artificial intelligence: this reduces the cost of autonomous driving functions for lev…
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The new tramways for Lille come from Alstom

The French metropolitan city of Lille and Mel, manager of the transport network, have chosen Alstom as their supplier for the replacement of the low-floor trams produced in the 1990s by Breda. Alstom will build 24 new low-floor trams (with an option for 6 more), which will enter into service in 2026…

New Stadler’s Tramlink is in regular service in Bern

On 1 November 2023, the first of 27 new Tramlinks started regular service on the Bern network. With the introduction of the 20 bi-directional trams and 7 one-way trams supplied by Stadler Rail, Bernmobil achieves its goal of adapting the transport service to the needs of increasing mobility in the c…

FIAA 2024 will be held from 22 to 25 October 2024 in Madrid

Preparations are in full swing for the fifteenth year of the FIAA 2024. The event is scheduled from 22 to 25 October 2024 in Madrid. The fair is regarded as the key meeting for the sector in Southern Europe, organizers say, and “an upswing in activity has encouraged the organisers to raise the…