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One hundred Yutong electric buses coming (soon) to GTT Torino, in Italy? Not really. The contract has been “Cancelled after verification”, the public transport operator GTT says. The vehicles had been assigned to the Chinese giant Yutong. Now checks are being done on the second bidder, B...

Autocar Expo 2020 in Lyon, France, has been cancelled. The exhibition was scheduled for next week, on 14 to 16t October. The decision is due to the passage into the maximum alert zone of the city of Lyon, announced on 8 October 2020 by Olivier Véran, Minister of Health. The news is reported on the F...

Pierre Lahutte joins the Supervisory Board of Forsee Power, a French battery supplier chosen, for example, by Heuliez – Iveco for the electric bus range and Alstom for the Aptis (as well as the Portuguese CaetanoBus, both for the battery-electric vehicle and for the hydrogen one). Lahutte&#821...

Over 200 hydrogen buses ordered through the EU-backed JIVE and JIVE 2 projects. The announcement comes from the Joint Initiative for Hydrogen Vehicles across Europe project, co- financed by the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU). What is more, the first 50 buses are now in operation....

German battery supplier Akasol has moved into its new headquarters in the southwest of Darmstadt. The move marks the launch of serial production of the first battery systems on production lines already in place in Gigafactory 1, which is part of the Akasol campus. Beginning in mid-2021, the Company ...

As of December, the PTA Västtrafik plans to have about 150 electric buses into service. 34 routes will be fully electrified. The investment makes Western Sweden the main hotspot in the Nordic region for electric buses, Västtrafik highlights. The e-buses will be deployed by Transdev, that won the bus...

Kempower has been selected to charge the 31 VDL e-buses purchased by Koiviston Auto Group for operations in the Finnish cities of Kuopio and Lahti (13 and 18 e-buses respectively). The supplier, based in Finland as well (in Lathi, to be specific), will install both high-power CCS2-type cable chargin...

MVG Munich inaugurated a full electric line with 8 new Ebusco buses. The first day in operation was the 5th October. From now on, line 144 will be driven entirely electrically with these buses. This is the first fully electric line in Munich. The second line is already on its way: line 100 will also...

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Moscow Department of Transport announces that the British startup Arrival «may launch production in Moscow». The information is made public by the institution itself, which says they are discussing with Arrival the possibility of testing the e-buses coming from the startup on Moscow’s roads. T...