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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...

e-troFit GmbH and Paul Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH have joined forces in what they term a preferred partnership. The cooperation agreement was signed in April 2021 by the two CEOs, Andreas Hager for e-troFit GmbH and Walter Pötzinger for Paul Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH. The latter is a German company which produces ...

Nova Bus has launched in operation a batch of two forty foot, fully electric Nova Bus LFSe in Brampton (Canada). The electric buses were delivered earlier this year as part of the Canadian Consortium for Urban Transportation Research and Innovation (CUTRIC) Canada-wide Interchangeability Project. Th...

BAE Systems entered a cooperation with Plug Power to offer hydrogen-based electric propulsion systems for transit bus fleets in North America. The new venture bring together a company active in providing electric propulsion systems and a supplier of hydrogen engines and fueling systems. BAE Systems ...

Yesterday Daimler Truck AG and Volvo Group officially outlined the strategy beyond the fuel cell joint venture Cellcentric, first announced in april 2020. The roadmap is part of an industry-first commitment to accelerate the use of hydrogen-based fuel cells for long-haul trucks and beyond (also long...