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Shell Deutschland has signed an agreement with Schaltbau Holding AG to buy 100% stake in SBRS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Schaltbau Holding AG (a provider of charging infrastructure solutions for commercial electric vehicles, including e-buses, e-trucks and e-vans). The transaction is expected to ...

Transit Systems has celebrated three years of running Australia’s largest battery electric bus network and depot, with over 2 million customers in New South Wales stepping on board. In Sydney, battery electric buses operated by Transit Systems are in service across the Inner West routes and school s...

Deutsche Bahn-owned tech company ioki has supplied software for EU-funded services in Switzerland and Luxembourg. Since September 2021, ioki has been a software-as-a-service partner of the EU-funded project “Autonomous Vehicles to Evolve to a New Urban Experience” (AVENUE for short). The project tha...

Solaris will deliver four Urbino 12 hydrogen buses to Venice. The contracts were concluded with Italian carriers AVM Venezia and ACTV SPA Venezia. The 12-metre hydrogen-fuelled buses will arrive in Italy in mid-2023, and the total value of the contra...

Equipmake showcased at Euro Bus Expo a zero-emission repowered version of the New Routemaster double-decker bus. This process sees its hybrid drivetrain completely replaced with Equipmake’s Zero Emission Drivetrain (ZED), which uses 95% British-built component content. The repowered New Routemaster,...

Vattenfall has delivered 32 fast chargers to Tide Bus in Denmark’s fifth largest city, Vejle. The delivery is Vattenfall’s first Power-as-a-Service project for passenger transport in Denmark. “It’ll be followed by more”, company says. Vattenfall manages chargers and sup...

By the end of 2025, Wiener Linien will convert nine of its 127 routes to operation with the battery-electric bus Mercedes eCitaro. In fact, the operator has just announced an order for 60 eCitaro buses. The vehicles will be delivered from next year until 2025. In summer 2022 Austrian government anno...

Nordic region’s largest public transport operator Nobina will be the first in Sweden to put the new generation VDL Citea into operation. The electric buses, which are a Class 2 design and developed from scratch, are to be used for regional traffic in Ale in the area covered by the transportation aut...

The Danish bus company Vikingbus has ordered 31 Mercedes eCitaro buses. In future, they will mainly be used in Køge, a harbor town south of the Danish capital Copenhagen in the east of the island of Sjӕlland. The city buses are planned to go into operation at the turn of the year 2023/2024. Mercedes...

30 September 2022 saw the closure of the historic Milan-Limbiate line, the last interurban tramway line, witness to a vast network that had been in operation since the end of the 19th century and unfortunately now suppressed.Opened in 1882 from Milan to Affori in horse-drawn traction, the line was t...