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The Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA) welcomed the new Permanent Transit Fund announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Infrastructure and Communities Minister Catherine McKenna. Funding could be used for everything from subway extensions and electrified transit fleets to walkways, cycl...

Forsee Power announces the completion of financing of 105 million euros to support its growth in the new electromobility markets and geographies. This financing notably includes a loan of 50 million euros granted by the European Investment Bank (EIB) to the French producer of battery modules. «The s...

BorgWarner is to take over battery manufacturer Akasol. This morning Akasol and BorgWarner announced «the companies have signed a Business Combination Agreement to enter into a strategic partnership and BorgWarner will launch a voluntary public takeover offer». The US-based group is then set to acqu...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan personally examined and tested the Autonomous Atak Electric, developed co-jointly with ADASTEC and Karsan. The manufacturer made public that a ceremonial event was held at the Presidential Complex to mark the occasion. «Briefed extensively about Karsan Autonomo...

Allison Transmission will offer Allison’s eGen Flex electric hybrid propulsion system to Gillig, a US-based transit bus producer. The system enables full electric mode for up to 10 miles. In May 2020 Gillig announced that its first battery-electric bus model was under testing. The bus features a dri...

Only electric buses on the city streets by 2025. There are 297 buses to be converted. In the framework of the England-wide competition to switch an entire town or city’s bus fleet to electric vehicles, Coventry had been selected together with Oxford in early 2021. Now Coventry City Council announces...

142 diesel buses and 40 hydrogen-powered ones. Odd couple? Not at all! Solaris just secured three framework agreements with ÖBB Postbus for the exclusive supply of up to 182 buses which will be used throughout Austria. According to the concluded framework agreements, as mentioned above, a total of u...

Bus depot in Regensburg will be equipped with charging stations from Siemens Smart Infrastructures. The German group has received an order from the Regensburg transport authority Stadtwerk Regensburg.Mobilität GmbH to equip the bus depot in the Markomannenstrasse for electromobility. Siemens will su...

31 new battery-electric buses in Kiel‘s future, thanks to additional funding just awarded to the public transport company KVG from the Federal government. The city will witness the entry in operation of 11 articulated e-buses and 20 12-meter vehicles. Also three electric minibuses will be proc...

Temsa has started to produce Li-Ion battery packs for its electric vehicles’ range in its Adana plant. CEO Tolga Kaan Doğancıoğlu said: “Half of our buses will be electric by 2025”. Temsa has so far exported a batch of electric buses in Sweden and got the first order for vehicles j...