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The green revolution of electric transport is also sweeping Africa. Adoption of electric vehicles in Kenya is currently at 5% of the total vehicles present in the African country, and for the most part these are private vehicles. But there is a “but”: the situation is about to change in ...

A new issue of Sustainable Bus magazine is out! And it goes along with a novelty: based on the rewarding results achieved in years 2020 and 2021, when the magazine was published twice a year, in 2022 we’ll be out with three issues. To date, every issue has reached an average of 20,000 views on...

TransLink is adopting a climate action strategy that charts an aggressive path to net zero greenhouse gas emissions. This strategy provides new emissions reduction targets for all of TransLink’s fleet and facilities; it also identifies opportunities to create a more climate resilient transit s...

Scania and Kempower have signed a frame agreement where Kempower will be an official supplier of DC fast charging equipment to Scania and its affiliates worldwide. The agreement enables Scania to provide both its own network and its customers with Kempower’s DC fast charging technology and solutions...

142 new hydrogen refueling stations were opened worldwide in 2021, shows a recent Sustainable Truck&Van article based on the 14th annual assessment of H2stations.org. 252 additional projects are already in place (Everfuel, for instance, is planning to build new stations in Germany and Sweden). A...

Munich-based battery software experts TWAICE this week welcomed Jeff Glasson as their new CTO. He joins the 100 strong analytics company at their HQ. Mr Glasson will be responsible for TWAICE’s technology team and the overall technology strategy. He will be driving product delivery, scaling as well ...

Since February 1, 2022, Daimler AG becomes Mercedes-Benz Group AG. The renaming follows the spin-off and stock exchange listing of Daimler Truck, the latter now focused only on heavy-duty commercial vehicles. As a consequence, the brand-new Mercedes-Benz Group AG will focus its business on light com...

Starting in 2026, in Israel all new buses for public transport must be zero emissions. Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection has set mandatory targets for public transportation operators in the country. The goal is to have only zero emission buses in municipal public transportation by 2036. I...

Karsan has delivered the first batch of Level-4 autonomous buses ready for real road conditions in USA and Europe, to Romania. And new orders are coming from Northern Europe, Norway. The Autonomous e-ATAK is already testing the roads in Stavanger, Norway. Autonomous e-ATAK, launched one year ago, wa...

With today’s article, we are crossing the line from rather short-term effects to the vast field of degradation, to which we will dedicate a whole chain of articles in 2022. But to begin, it is instrumental to understand some basic principles. What is the excessively used “SOH”? How is it defined, wh...