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A contract for 1,002 pure electric buses in Bogota (Colombia) has been awarded to BYD, making 1,472 the number of e-buses from the Chinese manufacturer headed to the capital city. The Chinese manufacturer announced a few days ago the major contract. The tender was open to all bus technologies. This ...

This week ten Irizar ie bus vehicles were put into operation in Strasbourg, on line No. 10. Another 15 will join the network in February and the remaining 24 electric buses are expected to be delivered in May. The roadmap of the delivery, following the contract signed in October 2020, has been expla...

Moscow Transport is introducing innovations to turn buses into e-buses with better productivity. The Moscow-based company NPP ITELMA presented an IT-platform for electric bus manufacturers. The developers promise to reduce energy consumption of electric vehicles by 25% and increase power reserve of ...

Proterra is in the process of going public. The Californian-based electric bus manufacturer announced that it will become publicly listed through a transaction with ArcLight Clean Transition Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company. Upon closing, Proterra’s common stock is expect...

Forsee Power announces the launch of a new generation of extra-thin batteries for 2021. The new generation of batteries, called SLIM, compose, according to the French supplier, «the thinnest modular range in the world» and will be equipped with a liquid cooling system. Wrightbus will be the first cu...

Solaris joins European Clean Hydrogen Alliance, an initiative led by the European Commission. Its aim is to scale-up, by 2030, the production and deployment of hydrogen as a fuel produced by means of low-emission technologies and renewable energy sources. The European Clean Hydrogen Alliance is one ...

Karsan has delivered its first Atak Electric buses to Belgium. The two vehicles have been handed over to Keolis in the city of Ghent, and put into use for the transportation of the Zuiderpoort business center employees, a large office complex in the city. Karsan Atak Electric buses in Ghent Atak Ele...

VDL Bus & Coach announces it has secured a 102 units ‘electric’ order from Norway, where the capital city Oslo will therefore enjoy the entry in operation, since January 2022, of VDL largest bus fleets in Europe (a similar number of vehicles was commissioned in the Netherlands and cu...

Design and assembly of BYD – ADL electric bus chassis is set to be made in the UK starting from second half 2021. Until now, chassis are assembled in BYD Hungarian plant in Komarom, opened in April 2017 (and bound to be expanded), and then sent to the UK. Today Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) a...

Second life of batteries in the spotlight. A consortium comprised of Solaris Bus & Coach, Impact Clean Power Technology and TAURON Polska Energia will implement a project titled “Second Life ESS” with the aim to create a prototype system to store electric energy based on retired bus batteries. T...