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There has been much talk in recent weeks about the decision of the municipality of Bologna, that aims to become the first major 30 km/h city in Italy, with the transformation expected to be completed by 2024. The new traffic plan, called Bologna Città 30, seeks to create calmer, safer, and...

Two full electric buses from Rampini, 8-meter Eltron model, were delivered to the city of Marburg (Germany) last Tuesday, 11 July. A handover that follows the delivery in 2021 of two E80s, models that initiated the city’s decarbonisation strategy. It’s the second delivery for the new Ram...

Rocsys, a Holland-based company specializing in autonomous charging systems for electric vehicles, including trucks and buses (here’s an interview by our sister media Sustainable Truck & Van with CEO and co-founder, Crijn Bouman) received $36 million new funding to bring the project to a former ...

Daimler Buses has been leading the sales growth of Daimler Truck in Q2 2023. All segments of the group are experiencing positive developments, but the bus business is witnessing a particularly strong growth: +22% on Q2 2022. These developments result in an increased Group revenue guidance between €5...

Kempower has signed a sales and service agreement with full-service provider GP Joule Connect, for Germany, Denmark, Austria, and Poland. The partnership will cover the sales, installation, operation, service, and maintenance of Kempower EV charging infrastructure for electric vehicles.  In a few wo...

Abellio is celebrating the launch of its full electric fleet on Route 111 in West London. This growth in EV vehicles sees the company’s 111th electric bus going into operation, on route 111. The new fleet of electric buses operating on route 111, consisting of Wrightbus Electroliner vehicles, ...

Charging stations for trucks and buses have to be provided every 120 km on the European territory. The European Parliament has set new rules in view of charging and refueling stations, as part of the well-known Fit for 55 package. MEPs successfully negotiated that electric charging pools for cars wi...

It is called SC Soft (an Aurionpro company), is based in Singapore, but has offices in Malaysia, India, the US and Canada. And it is an ITS company that has designed and deployed end-to-end fare collection systems for public transportation, which was among the key players at the 64th Uitp Summit in ...

This year, the State of Bavaria is investing around 95 million euros in the conversion of local public transport to climate-friendly drives and the expansion of the charging infrastructure. More than 20 bus depots throughout Bavaria are to benefit by receiving a total of 400 climate-friendly buses a...

Iveco Bus won the tender issued by GTT Torino, winning all three lots, together with Enel X as utility provider and Iveco Orecchia as dealer. Part of this vehicles will be used on a new BRT line. Earlier this year, Iveco Bus was awarded a tender for 120 electric buses issued by Autoguidovie. Iveco B...