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Battery manufacturer CATL will provide VDL Bus & Coach with its high-energy density battery system based on LFP formula. The Chinese company recently announced the agreement with the Dutch manufacturer, which is the leader in Western Europe with regards to electric bus sales volumes so far. Also...

Solaris and the Romanian city of Craiova have just signed a contract for the delivery of 16 e-buses Urbino 18 electric. The articulated vehicles will make it to Craiova in the first half of 2021, Solaris announces. The city authorities opted for battery buses for the first time in their history, the...

Vy Buss is ready to bring a further batch of electric buses in operation in the Norwegian town of Drammen. 22 Volvo e-buses have just been ordered, with delivery planned for the period October – December 2020. What is interesting, two of the commissioned buses will be articulated models (unvei...

No bids were submitted to ATAC’s tender for hydrogen buses in Rome. The call for tender for five vehicles was issued in February in the framework of the European project 3eMotion. The news of the unsuccessful tender was reported on local media RomaToday and on the Italian specialized media AUT...

Coronavirus, good safety practices on board. Beyond bus disinfection, air conditioning systems are the ‘major suspects’ as potentially dangerous elements. What are the manufacturers’ indications? MAN Truck & Bus shares its recommendations on the topic, with Heinz Kiess, Head of...

ZF CeTrax, it’s time for series production. The central electric motore made in Friedrichshafen will join the well know AxTrax electric axle in order to widen the portfolio of zero emission drivetrains developed for commercial vehicles. Starting in the third quarter of 2020, ZF electric centra...

Brussels will witness an increasing number of Volvo hybrid buses on its streets. STIB-MIVB has indeed secured an order for no less than 128 hybrid buses from Gothenburg. In addition to the buses, the order encompasses options for servicing and maintenance for the traction chain and batteries. In Sep...

Sustainable Bus Award 2021 (SBY) has been cancelled. The awarding process this year will not take place. Organization committee and jury shared the decision of cancelling this edition of the award, that was supposed to be delivered in the second half of 2020, SBY announces with a press communication...

Today there are 500,000 e-buses in operation globally. And the share of battery-operated vehicles is bound to cover «over 67% of the global bus fleet in 2040». The figure and the forecast are pointed out in the newly-released Electric Vehicle Outlook 2020 by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). What...

What if… 10,000 new clean buses, either low and zero emission, will be put in service in the UK within the next four year? What if the benefits of lower pollution and better air quality towns and cities have experienced during the coronavirus lockdown will be maintained through a specific effo...