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Switch Mobility will showcase its new Metrocity electric bus at BUS2BUS in Berlin and, most important, its new 12-meter vehicle at Euro Mobility Expo in Paris, two of the main public transport exhibitions scheduled for 2022 in Europe. Switch Mobility new manufacturing and technology centre will be b...

North American school bus transportation provider First Student announces the winning of grants in California, Rhode Island, Missouri, Illinois, Oregon, and Montana to expand school bus electrification. In May 2021, First Student announced the largest zero-emission school bus order in North America ...

23 million euros financing for electric bus purchase in Île-de-France. Oblibus, a financing package offered by Banque des Territoires in partnership with the European Investment Bank, is supporting Île-de-France Mobilités and the RATP with €23 million for the acquisition of 100% electric buses and c...

By March next year, Solaris will deliver ten models of the hydrogen-powered Urbino 12 to two private operators in Upper Bavaria: five have been ordered by Busreisen Ettenhuber GmbH and the same number by Martin Geldhauser GmbH & Co. KG. These state-of-the-art vehicles will improve emission-free ...

Julian Soell has been appointed as president of Proterra Transit business unit effective May 2, 2022. As president of Proterra Transit, “Julian Soell will oversee Proterra’s growing business as the leading manufacturer of electric transit buses in North America. In his role, Julian will report...

BorgWarner has received a $4.09 million (around €3.8 million) U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Award to design and develop a cost-effective, advanced DC fast charger, Sustainable Truck&Van reports. BorgWarner received one of 25 research, development and demonstration projects which aim to advance...

Dana Incorporated has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification for its Sustainable Mobility Center, located on its World Headquarters campus in Maumee, Ohio, United States. Dana’s Sustainable Mobility Center awarded with LEED Dana’s state-of-the-art Sustainable Mob...

The MAN Lion’s City E continued to tour Europe in 2021, and now targets Morocco, where it is expected to ‘dock’ in early 2023. While the all-electric city bus was still touring 15 European countries in 2020, by 2021 it was already touring 20 countries. 20 countries to be ‘tou...

Fifteen new electric buses signed Mercedes (eCitaro) for the urban transport of Ludwigshafen, Mannheim and Heidelberg. So the German operator Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (Rnv) continues to expand and electrify its fleet by welcoming the first 15 of the 30 latest generation “stars” with sol...

The provinces Overijssel, Gelderland and Flevoland have awarded the public transport concession IJssel-Vecht to EBS. This news is reported on the on specialized Dutch media PV Magazine. EBS will start in IJssel-Vecht in December 2022. Keolis is currently operating an emergency concession after the p...