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Below, a contribution sent to Sustainable Bus by Roeland Reesinck, Energy transition consultant. This content was published on the Dutch financial newspaper ‘Het Financieele Dagblad’. Opinions, reactions, suggestions: info@sustainable-bus.com  Recently, the European Commission ...

BYD has completed a delivery of ten eBuses to public transport operator Tüke Busz Zrt, in the southern Hungarian city of Pécs. This supply marks the start of the first ever electric bus operation in the city. The vehicles were manufactured at BYD’s state-of-the-art production facility in Komárom, al...

Smart charging infrastructures for ATM Milano. The public transport operator has awarded CalBatt MaeStor platform for optimized charge balancing at the Milan San Donato depot. The city is targeting the full conversion of the bus fleet to electricity by 2030. Nearly 30 battery-electric buses from Sol...

Optimal Electric Vehicles is entering the electric bus market with the launch of the battery-electric S1LF Low-Floor shuttle bus for the North American market. The S1LF integrates a quasi-purpose-built Ford E450 chassis platform, which has been fully optimized with the vehicle body and achieves a lo...

Yutong e-buses are ready for Bergen. Two batches of E12 electric buses left the port of Shanghai, China, and are on their way to reach the port of Zeebrugge in Belgium. The information has been released today by Keolis. The buses will be delivered as part of a contract awarded by Skyss, the public t...

Siemens Smart Infrastructure will provide the charging infrastructure for 10 Rampini E80 electric buses in Genoa, Italy, following the latest order for 10 Rampini e-buses placed by the operator AMT Genova. As a result of this order, the number of Rampini E80 e-buses operating around Genoa will reach...

Marie-Ange Debon has been appointed as new Keolis Group Executive Chairwoman. The decision was taken unanimously by the Supervisory Board of Keolis Group, under the presidency of Joël Lebreton, during a Supervisory Board that was held on Tuesday 28 July 2020. Marie-Ange Debon will begin at the new p...

Electric bus energy consumption? 1.63 kWh/km for the 18-meter buses, 1.15 kWh/km for the 12-meter vehicles. These are the average consumption observed after a 10-months-long collection of data realized by Dutch telematic company ViriCiti, which has just released a dedicated report on e-bus performan...

The shipping of BYD ADL e-buses to New Zealand is ready to begin, following the order secured in autumn 2019. The eight vehicles will represent the very first Enviro200EV 11.6m length with 348kWh of battery capacity to be ever delivered (this new variant was launched in September 2019). They’l...

Keolis got a four-year extension worth 500 million euros to manage a fossil-free bus fleet in Stockholm, Sweden. This fleet is due to be composed by 335 vehicles with biogas, biodiesel or hybrid driveline. The extension was awarded on 3 July 2020 by the Swedish public transport authority (PTA) Stors...