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A new order from Sweden (12 vehicles to be delivered in Uppsala) has been secured. The first regular service operations for the MAN Lion’s City 18 E have begun these days: the articulated battery-electric bus can now be seen on the streets of Cologne every day. MAN Truck & Bus handed over the fi...

Paving the way for electrification of bus fleets by operating batteries on behalf of the operator. The UK-based company Zenobe Energy is protagonist of some significant key studies. Take London, where 34 e-buses were put in operation last year leveraging on an innovative financing scheme: Zenobe Ene...

Yesterday Arrival became a Nasdaq listed public company, with plans to use approximately $660 million in gross proceeds to ramp up delivery of its electric vehicles (Arrival bus included) and expand its global network of Microfactories. Arrival will be ringing the Nasdaq’s opening bell on Monday 29t...

Métropole Rouen Normandie has ordered a batch of 10 Mercedes eCitaro. “We’re putting our trust in 100 % electrified buses,” announces Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, Chair of Métropole Rouen Normandie. The region in north-west France consists of the city of Rouen and 70 predominantly smal...

Irizar e-mobility electromobility solutions are headed to Bulgaria. Specifically, they are arriving in Burgas, which for the first time will include 44 Irizar ie bus zero emissions electric buses in its fleet. It is the first electromobility project in that city and one of the largest in Bulgaria to...

BYD UK and Alexander Dennis Limited are adding operational flexibility to the Enviro EV range, which is now assembled entirely in the UK (chassis included). Additional charging options will be provided: in addition to AC plug charging, all of the partnership’s zero emission buses can now be specifie...

Last week Solaris has signed a deal with public transport operator Dopravní Podnik in Ostrava (DPO) for the supply of 24 Urbino 12 electric buses and the charging infrastructure to go with them. The vehicles ordered by DPO are the first electric Solaris buses to make an appearance on Czech streets. ...

More than 1,700 participants from 34 countries have attended previous editions of BUS2BUS in Berlin, with 103 exhibitors from 13 countries. The exhibition, launched in 2017 and reproposed in 2019, this year will be held in digital mode. Registrations are open. «We want to connect exhibitors and indu...

Engineering specialist IAV and Webasto have agreed upon a technology collaboration for electric commercial vehicles. The companies will then be jointly looking after the electrification of buses, trucks and work machines. This will enable them to offer customers component development and system inte...

Traton is preparing for the transition to electric drives with a total of €1.6 billion to be invested in e-mobility research and development by 2025. The group has decided that «the share of conventional drives in the company’s product development budget will be reduced to less than a fifth at the s...