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Dutch telematics company ViriCiti announces it has started rolling out the largest Smart Charging implementation in the public transportation sector (with the exception of China). In total 163 charger connectors (both plugin & pantograph) managed by Qbuzz are connected to the ViriCiti dashboard....

An order for up to 50 electric buses Heuliez GX 337 Elec has been achieved by the French brand in the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolitan area, where public transport operations are managed by Keolis Pays d’Aix. The first four vehicles went into service at the beginning of 2020. Now a new orde...

Keolis Transit America wins a new bus contract in Southern California for the operations of 114 buses, mainly fueled with natural gas (87 vehicles). The contract has begun on 1 October and has a length of 5 years, with the option to extend it for an additional five years. As of end 2019, 20 per cent...

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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...