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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...

André Burdet is Vice President Product Management and Strategy and Head of e-mobility business at Hitachi ABB Power Grids. The company is sponsor of the Sustainable Bus Tour 2021 and will take a part to the webinar “The electric depot. Charging and managing large e-bus fleets”, scheduled...

Keolis has been awarded a ten-year contract, worth €150 million, by Västraffik, Gothenburg’s public transport authority (PTA), to operate and maintain articulated fully electric buses in the north-eastern part of the city. The contract is scheduled to come into force in June 2022. The contract...

Not only electric van and electric bus: Arrival activities are involving car manufacturing as the UK-based company made public yesterday that it is partnering with Uber to develop an affordable, purpose-built electric vehicle (EV) for ride-hailing drivers. Arrival has recently became a publicly list...

New electric order for Karsan in Romania. The Turkish manufacturer has been awarded Mangalia City’s electric bus tender, for a total of ten 8-meter Atak Electric. With the buses to be delivered to Mangalia in two batches in July and September this year, the number of Karsan buses in the Romani...

A luxury coach. Powered with electric drivetrain and batteries. MCI has just unveiled its first battery-electric zero-emission luxury coach in the North American market: the J4500 CHARGE.  MCI belongs to the NFI group. The J4500 CHARGE – a zero-emission version of the industry’s best-selling J serie...

Solaris has sold 13 fuel cell buses in Frankfurt. The buses are to be deployed on target routes in 2022. The Polish company announces it has won a tender call made by the company In-der-City-Bus which is in charge of public transport in Frankfurt. A batch of 15 units is headed to Cologne, another 20...

Volvo Buses extends the reach of its electromobility solutions to the Latin American market by testing the Volvo 7900 Electric in Mexico City. The bus is being tested on route 4 of the Mexico City Metrobús system. The fully electric unit is 12 metres long, features Volvo Buses’ characteristic techno...

Alexander Schabert is Co-founder & CCO at ViriCiti, a Dutch telematics company founded in 2012 that shortly became a market leader in fleet monitoring solutions in the United States and Europe, with over 3,500 buses and chargers connected to its platform. ViriCiti is sponsor of the Sustainable B...