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ROCSYS has raised 6.3 million dollars (5.25 million Euros) in a round led by Forward.One: the money will be used to scale up activities throughout Europe and launch a North-American business unit. Field: robotic EV charging technologies. The company, based in the Netherlands, has recently opened a c...

Solaris is ready to launch a new version of the 9-meter electric midibus Urbino Electric. It has been revealed by Mateusz Figaszewski, Director of E-mobility Development at Solaris Bus & Coach, during a video interview with Sustainable Bus. «This year we plan to launch a new 9-meter electri...

The implementation of three electric bus depots is the outcome of the cooperation established in Scotland by Zenobe Energy with McGill’s. The partnership will see the implementation of three fully electric bus depots, servicing Dundee and the wider Glasgow areas of Inchinnan and Johnstone. The opera...

11 high level speakers, 1,649 registrations, over 1,000 single viewers. These are the main figures about the first event of the Sustainable Bus Tour 2021, on air the 6th May 2021. And now available online on our Youtube channel (and below). Topic? ‘The electric depot. Charging and managing lar...

More than 100 Bluebus e-buses are in operation powered with Siemens Commercial Vehicles drivelines. The two companies indeed foster a long-term partnership, built across collaboration throughout several projects. The main outcome of such cooperations is the number of 100 12-metre zero-emission Blueb...

Lion Electric has announces that it has selected Joliet, in Illinois, for the construction of its U.S. manufacturing facility. The new facility, according to the Canadian company that has recently made public it is building a battery plant in its home country, will represent the largest dedicated pr...

Enel X enters the Australian market bringing to the country its e-bus charging platform. Enel X will then work with public transport authorities and bus operators that are replacing traditional diesel buses with cleaner and more sustainable electric buses.  The Enel X e-bus platform «includes advanc...

e-Traction presents RetroMotion, an in-wheel motor electric drivetrain addressed at the market of commercial fleet conversion. «To ensure sustainability for transit buses, sightseeing double deckers or coaches, these vehicles can be retrofitted with electric drive technology», e-Traction points out ...

Bergen-based company Saga Tenix AS, provider of electric bus telematics services, has raised €1.5 million from Norway’s largest VC fund, Idekapital. The money «will be spent on building the organization and growing further into the European and International telematics markets», it is released. Char...

Alstom Aptis production is going to be stopped. The production lines will be halted by the end of 2021. The news is reported on several French media, among them the newspaper Le Figaro, and involves the plant of Hangenbieten (Bas-Rhin). It is reported that «the management adduces a lack of orders, a...