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The role of public transport in the framework of EU Green New Deal. It’s the topic of an open letter addressed by UITP to the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans. The public transport sector can make a key contribution towards...

Today was the first day on the road for the first Solaris Urbino electric buses ordered by MPK Poznań. Ordered last December, they were included in regular line traffic today. The inauguration of new vehicles was attended by, among others Jacek Jaśkowiak, President of Poznań (some 20 km far from Sol...

Brisbane future metro network will be operated through electric buses. Brisbane City Council is willing to introduce a new fleet of bi-articulated zero emission vehicles. The 24-meter buses (named “Metro”), according to the plans, will integrate seamlessly into busway operations and shar...

The electrification of Munich bus fleet asks for a purpose-built depot, where up to 200 electric buses will find their recovery place. The brand new depot, named Hybrid.M, will be managed by Stadtwerke München GmbH (SWM) and Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft mbh (MVG). The tender for the charging infras...

Limoges Métropole has been the first to invest, in end of September 2018, in the brand new Iveco Crealis In-Motion-Charging. Unveiled at IAA Commercial Vehicles in 2018 and elected Sustainable Bus Award 2019 in Urban category, the trolleybus is a fully zero emission vehicle. Three units have been in...

Lyon gets a new autonomous shuttle service. Operated via Navya electric driverless vehicles in cooperation with Sytral and Keolis, the open-road experiment will be fully integrated within Lyon’s public transport network. Area? The Parc Olympique Lyonnais stadium. Another pilot involving a shuttle su...

Below, a contribution from Vincent Wever, sustainable transport specialist at consultancy agency Goudappel Coffeng. In September, the city of Leiden had a silent milestone: the 500th zero emission bus in the Netherlands went into service. We’ve come a long way since in 2015, the leaders of the PTAs ...

MZA Warsaw chooses Ekoenergetyka for the second time. The Polish capital city has ordered further 65 plug-in charging stations (plus 3 pantograph stations) from the domestic supplier Ekoenergetyka. 20 fast charging spots were already been contracted in the summer. Nearly 100 Ekoenergetyka stations i...

Standardization, market trends, the trend for depot charging and the importance of pantograph charging. And also: autonomous driving and regulations. We met Marcel Rümenapf, Sales & Account Manager for utility vehicle charging in Europe & Latin America at Siemens Smart Infrastructure. A unit...

After Alabama, here comes New Mexico. Proterra set a new ‘first’ in US, this time signing a contract with the bus operator Atomic City Transit. The company of Los Alamos, New Mexico, has agreed to purchase two Proterra Catalyst 35-foot E2 buses together with two Proterra 125 kW plug-in c...