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Research, mobility, industry: The areas of application and many possibilities for hydrogen are growing from year to year. From June 20 to 24, 2021, the international hydrogen and fuel cell industry will meet for the 9thbiannual World Hydrogen Technologies Convention (WHTC) to exchange views about sc...

Swiss operator Bernmobil has awarded Irizar e-mobility a contract to supply 14 battery-powered articulated buses. These vehicles are to be used on routes 19 and 21 from the beginning of 2023 and will reduce CO2 emissions by a further 1,200 tonnes per year, Bernmobil states in a press note. At the sa...

Proterra is to debut on Nasdaq today, after completing business combination with ArcLight Clean Transition Corp. More than $640 million have been raised to fund growth initiatives, including next-generation battery program, the Californian company points out. Proterra now listed on Nasdaq This follo...

Solaris Bus & Coach welcomes Olivier Michard as the new CEO of the subsidiary Solaris France, starting on 1st June 2021. Solaris made its corporate debut on the French market in 2003. Since then, it has supplied over five hundred buses to French operators. These were both conventionally and alte...

The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) commits up to $400 million in the City of Ottawa’s 450 zero-emission bus expansion. Such pledge stands out for being the largest-ever single increase in zero-emission buses for public transit in Canada. The CIB and the City of Ottawa, Canada capital city, are pro...

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Nuria Fernandez has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 15th Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). Fernandez is also the first Senate-confirmed woman of color to lead FTA, and the first confirmed Administrator in over a decade...

CaetanoBus has been selected as the supplier to deliver five 12m fuel cell buses to Kreis Düren in Germany by the 1st quarter of 2022. The vehicles will be operated by Rurtalbus, a company founded by the RATH Group and the Dürener Kreisbahn (DKB) in 2019 and is responsible for all public bus transpo...

44-percent share of alternative drives in traded vehicles in 2020, 700 delivered zero-emission buses, carbon footprint reduction of 51%, energy savings, new values introduced by the company, environmental and social policy, sustainable development vision and g...

San Francisco Bay Area’s AC Transit orders an additional 20 fuel cell buses from New Flyer, model Xcelsior CHARGE H2, unveiled in March 2019. The purchase was made through California’s State Cooperative Procurement, which New Flyer was selected for as a top-scoring approved supplier in 2019. 35 zero...

Rimini’s Metromare is switching gear, the supply of new-generation trolleybuses to ATM Milano has been completed, while other vehicles are making their debut in service in Emilia-Romagna region. The first half of 2021 in Italy has been anything but dull as far as trolleybus projects are concer...