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Eager to hear how electric buses will sound in Germany? The VDV has presented an acoustic industry standard in Berlin, following the student competition launched in late 2021 in cooperation with the FOAM Institute Berlin. Winner? Lukas Esser from the Berlin University of the Arts. CLICK BELOW TO HEA...

IT-TRANS 2022, held in Karlsruhe May 10-12, bringing together 276 exhibitors from the ITS, ticketing and MaaS world was a success, taking home record numbers. Coming then just to the numbers, here are 800 delegates at the conferences, 6,500 visitors to the exhibition, 276 exhibitors (as noted above)...

Zenobē enters a partnership with Airsym, a transport provider for airlines, airports and ground handling companies, to launch into service a brand-new Yutong TCe12 electric coach, in England. The coach will be used as part of a shuttle service for McClaren Automotive, transporting staff from Woking ...

Unity is strength, it is known. And so CaetanoBus, Toyota and Air Liquide are joining forces to accelerate the development of hydrogen mobility in Europe, signing a memorandum of understanding with the aim of developing integrated H2 solutions for both light and heavy-duty vehicles. The partnership ...

GVB has ordered 84 new generation VDL Citea for Amsterdam. They will be deployed from 2023 onwards. The framework contract includes an option for a further 130 new VDL Citea. VDL Bus & Coach will deliver 30 articulated new generation VDL Citeas (virtually launched one year ago) of type LF-181 an...

Belgium’s De Lijn, active in public transport in Flanders, has started three awarding procedures for work on its first electric bus depots. In fact, the Board of Directors has approved guidelines for the selection of works at the depots in Genk-Winterslag, Destelbergen and Kortrijk. In order t...

In 2021 Germany saw a doubling of zero emission buses onto its streets (they reached 1,269 compared to 683). Indeed, 586 new battery-electric and fuel cell buses were added in 2021. This means that the number of new registrations grew by almost 60 percent compared to 2020 and the 1,000 vehicles mark...

Forsee Power has inaugurated its production plant of battery systems in Poitiers (France). It consists of more than 15,000 sqm with more than 200 employees and 5 assembly lines with a production capacity of nearly 1 GWh (more than 2,500 bus batteries per year). The goal is to reach 4 GWh by 2027. Th...

Genoa’s public transport electric transition project is taking more and more shape with the presentation, held today, of the first units of the 30-vehicles batch of Solaris 12-metre electric buses. The delivery of all 30 will be completed by July. By the end of the year also a further 15 10.5-...

Bielefeld transport company moBiel, in Germany, is now testing in real operation four fuel cell buses from CaetanoBus. In the future, the hydrogen for the specially built filling station will be produced on site. moBiel tests fuel cell buses The project announced in 2020 is thus gaining momentum. Th...