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Lightning eMotors has signed a two-year agreement to purchase 175 megawatt-hours (MWh) of CATL battery products, the largest battery manufacturer in the world. Vehicle production with CATL packs is expected to begin in March 2022. Lightning eMotors will be working with CATL and CSI to design and ins...

ZF supervisory board appoints Heinrich Hiesinger as its new chair. He takes over from Franz-Josef Paefgen (who has been on ZF supervisory board for 13 years) as head of the supervisory board at the start of 2022  Hiesinger, former CEO of ThyssenKrupp AG, has been on ZF supervisory board since the st...

BYD UK and Alexander Dennis Limited have delivered four 10.2m length BYD ADL Enviro200EV electric buses to Nottinghamshire County Council, the first two of which have now entered service in Mansfield. These are the first BYD ADL electric bus in this 10.2m size specification to be delivered to a cust...

West Yorkshire Combined Authority, Leeds City Council and First West Yorkshire have taken delivery of seven Mellor Orion e-buses for use on their new FlexiBus on-demand service. The vehicles, presented in the operator’s eye-catching livery, entered service on September 27th. The battery-electric Ori...

Proterra announced plans to open a new EV battery system manufacturing plant in South Carolina to produce battery systems for Proterra Powered customers’ commercial electric vehicles. It’ll be the company’s third battery production facility nationwide. In December 2020, Proterra opened its sec...

100 Yutong hydrogen buses are bound to Beijing’s public transport operation. 30 fuel cell bus units have been delivered on December 2021. On the same day, the “Batch Delivery and Strategic Cooperation Signing Ceremony for Yutong Group · State Power Investment Corporation Fuel Cell Produc...

Gareth Joyce will be the next CEO of Proterra, the US-based commercial vehicle electrification technology company. Mr Joyce was appointed president of Proterra back in September 2021, as well as interim CFO. Now, he’s going to be the new CEO, starting on the 1st of January, 2022.  The California-bas...

Iveco and Air Liquide (world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and healthcare) have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop hydrogen mobility in Europe. The European partnership, as stated in a joint note by the two companies, will help to make “clean” mobil...

Irizar is set to supply 43 buses and coaches to Guimabus, the company that will operate the transport concession in the municipality of Guimarães for a period of 10 years. Operator Guimabus, from the Vale do Ave Group is acquiring 17 zero emissions Irizar ie bus electric buses and 26 Low Entry diese...

BVG Berlin is procuring a new batch of 90 e-buses. Green light has been given by the company’s supervisory board. The procurement concerns single-deck 12-meter buses with electric drive equipped for plug-in charging. The delivery of all buses is scheduled to take place by the end of 2022. This...