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Tribus will take to Berlin its electric minibus portfolio. Two battery-electric vehicles will be demonstrated at upcoming VDV Elektro Buses Conference in Berlin (4-5 February): the compact minibus Movitas and the VW e-Crafter wheelchair accessible minibus. Tribus Movitas, finalists at Dutch Automoti...

Supercaps on trams. The Estonian-German cleantech startup Skeleton Technologies expands in the railway market thanks to a new contract signed with Medcom, supplier of the drivetrains of Warsaw’s trams. Ultracapacitor systems will be situated onboard trams and provide energy savings by recupera...

Today, the first autonomous bus of the Irizar Group was presented at the Malaga City Hall. A pioneering mobility project that will begin to operate in a few months, thanks to the bus operator Avanza, in the same Spanish city. The bus developed for this test is the Irizar ie bus model, a 100% electri...

New Flyer Xcelsior CHARGE gets a new order in the State of New York. New Flyer just announced a new contract with the Regional Transit Service (RTS) in Rochester, New York. 10 forty-foot (12-meter) battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE will be rolled out. And there’s an option for up to 20 addition...

BYD Europe and Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) jointly announced on 21th January that their electric vehicle partnership has delivered 11 new pure electric Enviro200EV electric buses to Go-Ahead London. A further batch of 13 units is expected to be handed over in March. This latest delivery is the ve...

An electric powertrain developed in order to repower Van Hool coaches converting them to zero emission operations. The product will be offered to the North American market by ABC Companies (Van Hool distributor in North America) together with Lightning Systems. The latter is a Colorado-based develop...

17 battery-electric buses are going to hit Luxembourg City roads by the end of this year. Who won the tender? Volvo Buses, that is already active in the city mainly with plug-in hybrid buses. And the new contract has an option to increase the number to 25 buses. The news has been reported on the [&h...

KVB Cologne is almost ready to convert six bus route to electricity. 53 battery-electric buses have just been ordered: they’re VDL-branded, as the nine already in operation, and will be delivered from November 2020 on. The Dutch company resulted the winner of the European call to tender launch...

Omio in North America. The platform crosses the Atlantic Ocean and lands on the North American market. The company for booking city-to-city travels by bus and several other means of transportation announced its expansion from Berlin headquarter on the other side of the ocean. In the United States an...

ABB has been given the task to provide the charging infrastructures for Gothenburg electric bus fleet managed by Transdev. Starting in December 2020, 157 new Volvo 7900 Electric will start trafficking the streets of Gothenburg, Mölndal and Partille (the largest single electric bus order in Europe be...