Interviews

There’s no Mobility as a Service without public transport. And no competition between transit and sharing mobility services. What is sure, the trend towards MaaS implementation is gaining momentum. Anyhow, there’s not a single model, but many. At IT-TRANS 2022 we had the chance to discus...

In 2021 Industria Italiana Autobus ranked first in the Italian city bus market. The company, backed by the Italian State, has a portfolio ranging on different technologies, with a focus on CNG and LNG alternative drive buses. In November 2021 IIA launched its first battery-electric bus, the IIA City...

Arrival has been working quite silently for the last six years, conceiving, fine-tuning and developing a project that, if successful, might shake up not only the so-called last mile delivery, but also urban public transport (trials of the bus started recently, ahead of EU certification). It was rath...

Fleets are being a key driver for electrification in Europe. ChargePoint turns (more heavily) to the European market and to the e-bus segment: in 2021 the American group has acquired has.to.be and the Dutch telematics company ViriCiti. We discussed with Rich Mohr, Global VP of Fleet at ChargePoint, ...

The shift to e-mobility is not just a matter of changing a powertrain with another, but gives room to new possibilities in terms of layout, balancing, structure of the vehicles. Based in Montichiari, close to Brescia (Italy), BRIST is a supplier of axles, suspensions and gearboxes with lot of activi...

The launch of the new BZL electric bus chassis is the latest novelty from Volvo Buses. The group is leading the European e-bus market as of mid-2021, mainly thanks to the huge 145-units delivery in Gothenburg. We had a talk with Anna Westerberg, who has been covering the position of president of Vol...