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A new CEO has been appointed for Wrightbus: he is Jean-Marc Gales, who has more than 30 years of exerience in the automotive industry. “He brings with him a wealth of technical, engineering, commercial and sales experience as a senior executive,” the company says.Jean-Marc Gales most rec...

Equipmake announce the award of a £1.6 million grant to participate in a consortium under which Equipmake will further develop its electrification technology for electric vehicles. The consortium proposes the development of an integrated battery-fuel cell hybrid system, with Equipmake’s motor,...

The Canadian government is investing in the electrification of Saskatoon’s bus fleet, announcing $420,000 in funding to plan for the electrification of Saskatoon Transit’s bus fleet. Through this investment, Saskatoon Transit will create a five-step strategy that will examine costs, asse...

Rampini’s electric buses will be the standard bearers of the energy transition in Sicily, which has chosen made in Italy to take this much-needed and significant step. The Sicilian Region, in fact, has decided to invest in zero-impact mobility to accelerate the energy transition and has chosen...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the second round of funding under the Clean School Bus Program. This second round of funding makes approximately $400 million available through a competitive grant process, with an application deadline of August 22, 2023. Notification of s...

GIFT City (Gujarat International Finance Tec-City) is a business district under construction in the Gandhinagar district of Gujarat, India. Well, with the aim of strengthening green transportation facilities to and from Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), the Gujarat State Road Trans...

More than a month ago we were telling you about Volvo Buses radical turnaround, announcing the closure of its Wroclaw factory in Poland and its willingness to focus only on chassis production, leaving other companies to build the bodies. Well, today Volvo Buses announces that it has signed a letter ...

Alstom is the winner of a joint tender for 22 new low-floor trams, model Citadis, chosen by three French cities: Toulouse, Besançon and Brest. The three networks therefore commissioned Alstom with the 5-unit version of the Citadis model, of which 9 units will be delivered to Toulouse, 5 to Besancon,...

The Routing Company today announced it has received a 15-vehicle contract from the East Sussex County Council (“ESCC”). The contract, supported by the United Kingdom’s Bus Service Improvement Plan funding, includes a two year base agreement with an optional year extension, for a total of up to three...

First Bus is investing £2.5 million in solar power on a mission to make its depots self-sustaining – with 6,000 solar PV panels enabling 20 depots to generate their own renewable power for lighting, heating, office equipment and the engineering bays. By mid-June, these panels will generate over 2 mi...