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Alstom Aptis production is going to be stopped. The production lines will be halted by the end of 2021. The news is reported on several French media, among them the newspaper Le Figaro, and involves the plant of Hangenbieten (Bas-Rhin). It is reported that «the management adduces a lack of orders, a...

Keolis has been awarded a ten-year contract, worth €150 million, by Västraffik, Gothenburg’s public transport authority (PTA), to operate and maintain articulated fully electric buses in the north-eastern part of the city. The contract is scheduled to come into force in June 2022. The contract...

New electric order for Karsan in Romania. The Turkish manufacturer has been awarded Mangalia City’s electric bus tender, for a total of ten 8-meter Atak Electric. With the buses to be delivered to Mangalia in two batches in July and September this year, the number of Karsan buses in the Romani...

Volvo Buses extends the reach of its electromobility solutions to the Latin American market by testing the Volvo 7900 Electric in Mexico City. The bus is being tested on route 4 of the Mexico City Metrobús system. The fully electric unit is 12 metres long, features Volvo Buses’ characteristic techno...

e-troFit GmbH and Paul Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH have joined forces in what they term a preferred partnership. The cooperation agreement was signed in April 2021 by the two CEOs, Andreas Hager for e-troFit GmbH and Walter Pötzinger for Paul Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH. The latter is a German company which produces ...

Nova Bus has launched in operation a batch of two forty foot, fully electric Nova Bus LFSe in Brampton (Canada). The electric buses were delivered earlier this year as part of the Canadian Consortium for Urban Transportation Research and Innovation (CUTRIC) Canada-wide Interchangeability Project. Th...

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Lithium-ion batteries have entered every segment of our lives. From mobile phones and power tools to e-bikes and cars. The race for more energy and more power is on. The main driver behind that race is the progress of technology used in li-ion cells and batteries. The key parameter for any electric ...

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 ...

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Ten electric Solaris Urbino 12 buses will reinforce the fleet of Hamburg public transport operator Hochbahn. In line with the agreement two of the commissioned vehicles shall be supplied in autumn this year. The remaining ones will be handed over in September 2019. Hamburg going to buy only ebuses T...

Electric buses will debut in 2019 on the streets of Lillehammer, in Norway. Volvo Buses has received an order for two Volvo 7900 Electric from the public transport administration company Opplandstrafikk in Lillehammer. Unibuss in charge of the service for public transport and will deploy the electri...

It has been the first tender aiming to the electrification of Bvg fleet in Berlin, starting with 30 electric buses 12 meters long. The transport operator is now checking the offers, and preparing a new tender for articulated buses, electric as well, that allegedly will be released shortly. Bvg and t...

Norway bets on Vdl Bus & Coach. The transport operator Unibuss has recently placed an order for 40 electric Citeas. This includes 30 Citeas SLFA-180 Electric and 10 Citeas SLF- 120 Electric that will serve the Greater Oslo Region. This order (the largest one for electric buses in Scandinavia for...