Interviews

Paving the way for electrification of bus fleets by operating batteries on behalf of the operator. The UK-based company Zenobe Energy is protagonist of some significant key studies. Take London, where 34 e-buses were put in operation last year leveraging on an innovative financing scheme: Zenobe Ene...

From 2025 on, in the Netherlands, newly bought buses can only be emission free. In 2030 the entire fleet (around 5,000 buses) has to be clean. Today there are over 1,100 e-buses in the country. In 2020 the Netherlands accounted for over 21% of the battery-electric bus registrations in Western Europe...

E-buses? 2021 will be the year of the Lion’s City E. And in four years time a new battery range will mean an significant upgrade in terms of capacity and range. Pantograph applications? Not excluded. The future of intercity services? Hydrogen is a good candidate. Covid? Huge repercussions on t...

The Covid-crisis? The economic model of public transport is bound to change. The focus is on suburbs. Many challenges ahead, but they go along with new opportunities. Sustainability? The result of a mix of energies, and it’s crucial all of them get support. Hydrogen is the future, in the meanw...

Scania is about to enter the electric bus market with the Citywide BEV unveiled at Busworld and tested since 2017 in Sweden. Series production has been delayed because of Covid pandemic (which had a severe consequence on the brand’s activities in the bus & coach field, with a -44% of order...

Hyzon Motors is a new player approaching worldwide the fuel cell bus segment. Yes, the focus is on trucks… but buses will be part of the game, too. An important part. Maybe in partnership with bus builders. We discussed with Hyzon Motors’ CEO Craig Knight the future strategies of the com...