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“We have received the green light from the EU: from now until 2024, the federal government can support the development of e-bus fleets and their infrastructures in Germany with a total of 1.25 billion euros, according to current financial planning”, VDV Vice President Werner Overkamp (ju...

Kamaz has presented the hydrogen fuel cell bus 6290 at the COMTRANS-2021 international exhibition in Moscow. Sergey Chemezov, CEO of Rostec (the state corporation that owns Kamaz) outline this is the next step in the search for alternative energy sources and in the development of modern environmenta...

North American edition of the Zero Emission Bus Conference is on its way to be performed on September 15–17 in Denver. With the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) as host, the conference is set to gather zero-emission bus (ZEB) experts, operators, and advocates. In this interview CT...

Volvo Buses is testing a new concept for autonomous driver support, which consists in a system that assists the driver in situations that require high precision and safety, such as approaching and stopping at a bus stop. The system regulates the bus’s speed and steers automatically, allow...

Solaris Bus & Coach has appointed Robert Schneider as new CEO of its Swedish subsidiary Solaris Sverige AB. Robert Schneider assumed his new post on 6 September 2021 and took over the duties from Klaus Hansen, who was retiring. Robert Schneider at the helm of Solaris in Sweden Robert Schneider, ...

543 km in 48 hourse on a single charge. It’s the record mileage reached by an Iveco E-Way operated in Germany by Verkerhrsbetriebe Bachstein (based in Lower Saxony). The performance has been certified by TÜV Nord, Iveco Bus points out. Carried out on the initiative of the company Verkerhrsbetr...

Otokar electric bus e-Kent C has been launched at IAA 2021 in Munich. It features Webasto battery system based on NMC. Twelve meters in length, e-Kent C can accommodate up to 100 passengers. The maximum output is 340 kilowatts. Maximum battery capacity? 350 kWh. Webasto began battery production in l...

Pepper Motion (formerly e-troFit) and Twaice join forces to offer battery analytics on converted commercial vehicles. According to the deal, Twaice’s analytics software will make the battery performance and lifetime of electrified powertrains transparent and thus more sustainable. Twaice is pa...

German software company ioki, a Deutsche Bahn subsidiary, has been selected as the new technology partner of the EU-funded project AVENUE. The EU’s flagship project “Autonomous Vehicles to Evolve to a New Urban Experience” (AVENUE) will initially test the automation of urban transport in...

Scania has been awarded an order for six depot-charged electric buses in Sweden. They’ll be delivered to Bergkvarabuss for the operator’s new mission to drive in the area of Strängnäs (some 90km west of Stockholm) on behalf of Sörmlandstrafiken. Scania also delivers a complete charging infrast...