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BorgWarner announces it has been selected by a “global power technology leader” to supply battery packs for a series of electric buses. BorgWarner will provide a pair of standardized ultra-high energy packs and a battery management system that the company will integrate into its electrif...

Proterra has appointed David Black, a public company finance executive with more than 30 years’ experience in public corporate accounting and finance leadership, as new Chief Financial Officer, effective May 16, 2023. He joins the previously named new CIO (Chief Information Officer) Dustin Goodwin, ...

After announcing that the Egyptian company MCV (Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles) will produce bodyworks for its electric buses for the European market, Volvo Buses has announced that it has placed a bet on the Spanish company Sunsundegui – a historic partner – for the production of bod...

MAN Truck & Bus has delivered six electric articulated e-buses to Stadtwerke Tübingen. The MAN Lion’s City 18 E are the first fully electric articulated buses to be operated by the carrier TüBus. And other four fully electric MAN buses in the 12-metre variant are to be put into operation at TüBu...

Rebus Regionalbus Rostock, a transportation company based in Güstrow, Germany, has placed an order for 52 Solaris Urbino hydrogen buses. The order includes five articulated models and represents the largest single order for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles from Solaris to date. The contract, announced on...

At the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo, ZF premiered its all-new AxTrax 2 electric axle platform. Series production of AxTrax 2 is planned to begin in Europe in late 2024 and in the U.S. in 2025, ZF states. What is very interesting, it will be offered in two variants: AxTrax 2 with one e-dr...

ACT Expo 2023 has officially started in Anaheim yesterday, May 1, and will last until May 4 at the brand-new location in Anaheim, California. As stated by the organizers and reported on Sustainable Truck&Van, ACT Expo has experienced “unprecedented year-over-year growth with more than ...

USA-based no-profit organization CALSTART has announced that its National Conference 2023 will be held in San Diego, California, on May 17, and will focus on the next 30 years in clean transportation. CALSTART was founded almost 30 years ago with the goal of improving air quality and creating jobs i...

Mariana Mazzucato will be keynote speaker at the UITP Global Public Transport Summit 2023, one of the main public transport exhibition scheduled in 2023. Mariana Mazzucato, PhD, is a world-renowned economist, professor, author, innovator, and adviser, known for her groundbreaking work on the dynamic...

Sixty years after the closure of the last line (the service ended on 3 November 1963), the tram in Bologna is starting up again. With a brand new network, of which the foundation stone was laid on 26 April, in the presence of the mayor of Bologna Matteo Lepore, the city councillor for Public Works [...