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In the year of Covid, the battery-electric bus market increased of 22% in Western Europe (with the addition of Poland). 2,062 e-buses (trolleybuses excluded) were registered between 1 January and 31 December 2020, vs the 1,685 that debuted in 2019 (that, it is worth remembering, it has been a truly ...

BusTech Group announces it has confirmed as the only Australian bus company locally manufacturing zero-emission buses for the NSW market. BusTech Group’s ZDi electric bus has been indeed designed, engineered and built in Australia. Production of BusTech Group’s electric buses will commence in NSW in...

Another commercial success for Temsa in the e-bus field: the Turkish brand has announced it has won a tender held in Buzău, Romania. Temsa will then deliver four Avenue Electron e-buses by the end of 2021. Temsa has so far exported a batch of electric buses in Sweden and got the first order for vehi...

Following the experience gained in ATC Esercizio in La Spezia, a new Italian trial for the SmartBUS has started in Turin in cooperation with public transport operator GTT (that has recently placed an order for 100 battery-electric buses with BYD). The electric bus is on trial operation on line 19 in...

E-buses? 2021 will be the year of the Lion’s City E. And in four years time a new battery range will mean an significant upgrade in terms of capacity and range. Pantograph applications? Not excluded. The future of intercity services? Hydrogen is a good candidate. Covid? Huge repercussions on t...

55 Yutong e-buses have been delivered to Keolis for operations in Odense and the greater Copenhagen area, in Denmark. Keolis is now preparing the service launch of the e-buses in summer 2021, on behalf of Movia and FynBus, the local public transport authorities (PTAs). Keolis is to operate as many a...

Dutch company Heliox powers a total of 6,3 MW in the city of Wiesbaden. In a project granted by ESWE to Heliox in June 2019, the first batch of 56 chargers is now operational for new Daimler eCitaro buses (the very first with solid-state batteries), Heliox points out. At the Gartenfeldstraβe depot i...

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...