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Thirty-three Skoda trolleybuses, model 27Tr, for transport in the Czech city of Ústí nad Labem: the order for the modern low-floor vehicles, which is based on a previous cooperation with the transport company, will exceed CZK 650 million, about twenty-six million euros. Compared to the vehicles alre...

The Routing Company announced it has been named a winner of Metro Magazine’s Innovative Solutions Award for 2022. METRO announced the winners just prior to the American Public Transportation Association’s TRANSform Conference beginning in Seattle, Washington. The Innovative Solutions Awards occur an...

The Munich-based solar mobility OEM Sono Motors announces it is launching a project to test the recently presented Solar Bus Kit in real-life conditions in the northern hemisphere. The pilot involves manufacturer Scania and Swedish public transport authority LLT. This project is a par...

Anne Le Guennec has been appointed to the Keolis Supervisory Board on 29 September 2022. Anne Le Guennec is the chief executive of Veolia’s Recycling & Recovery business unit for France. Keolis has launched this summer a recruiting campaign in France in order to fill 1,000 open positions worldwi...

Ballard Power Systems is planning to build manufacturing facility and R&D center in Shanghai, China. This is part of a strategy, called ‘local for local’, according to which the Canadian fuel cell specialist aims to deepen its global manufacturing footprint in Europe, the United States and ...

ACTIA is launching a new intelligent infotainment and on-board management system called ACTiVi. Connected to a display, this ECU centralises and manages all vehicle functions. ACTIA says it has designed this new generation CPU in response to the massive influx of multimedia systems in passenger tran...

CaetanoBus and Industria Italiana Autobus (IIA) have signed an agreement to start the production and marketing in Italy of hydrogen-powered city buses based on Toyota Fuel Cell technology and an H2.City Power Kit system developed by CaetanoBus. According to this agreement, by the end of 2022, IIA wi...

Hermes Groep NV, a Dutch transportation company, has signed a contract with Solaris Bus & Coach for the purchase of ten Trollino 18 trolley buses with the distinctive Metrostyle design, of which about 50 are already in operation in Salzburg and four in Esslingen. The ten examples will enter serv...

First Bus is partnering with Equipmake to repower 12 of the operator’s first-generation electric buses in York. Therefore, 12 First York electric Optare Versa buses are going to be repowered with Equipmake electric drivetrain (ZED) at the company’s base in Snetterton, Norfolk. Equipmake expects each...

Inka’s new electric bus for the Indonesian market will feature Advanced Electric Machines’ sustainable motor technology.Specifically, INKA will produce 26 electrified buses containing Advanced Electric Machines‘ unique electric motor technology: the prototype for the project has al...