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Translink is investing 4 million pounds for the purchase of its first hydrogen buses. The Northern Ireland’s public transport operator, as BBC reports, has in fact placed an order for three vehicles, with support by the government’s Office for Low Emission Vehicles. Translink buys hydrog...

The Republic of Ireland will receive up to 600 double-decker plug-in hybrid buses ADL Enviro 400ER. A first firm order for 100 buses is already underway. The deal has been announced today by Alexander Dennis Limited, who will therefore deliver hundreds of Enviro400ER, capable of running in zero emis...

It’s no novelty that Forsee Power is partnering with CaetanoBus for the battery-electric buses manufactured by the Portuguese company. Now the French supplier (which also equips Heuliez Bus and Alstom e-buses) announces that it has been involved also in the realization of the hydrogen bus Caet...

570 buses and 2,000 trucks have been travelling for more than 30 million kilometers on hydrogen. Ballard Power System, the leading supplier of fuel cell modules, announced that the company’s proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell technology and products have now successfully powered the so called ...

After Sileo, Bonn will welcome Solaris zero emission buses. The Polish brand has in fact won the tender for the supply of three articulated electric buses for the German city. It will be the first supply carried out by the manufacturer for the public transport operator of Bonn. The customer has deci...

Irizar e-mobility relies on green energy for the production of zero emission buses. The Spanish company has contribute to the opening of the largest photovoltaic solar farm in the Basque Country. Irizar Group is one of the largest investor of EKIAN farm with the acquisition of 3 MW. The energy gener...

Konvekta CO2-based thermal management system (with heat pump), addressed at the electric bus market, is now produced on a dedicated line. The serial produced of the system was launched in 2018. At the beginning the CO2-Heat Pump was manufactured on an already existing production line. But since Dece...

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...