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ASEAG dresses the Mercedes eCitaro in black and white. Aachen, in Germany, has just taken delivery of 7 Mercedes battery electric buses, and up to further 20 units are coming. The public transport operator Aachener Straßenbahn und Energieversorgungs AG (ASEAG) ordered up to 27 electric city buses. W...

Foton Motor is going to produce electric buses in Egypt. The first delivery has been executed a few days ago. The electric bus production in Egypt will be developed within a collaborazione between Foton Motor, the Egyptian Ministry of Military Production and the Egyptian company IMUT (International ...

Australia bus fleet will get a touch of… green. There are plans to fully electrify Sydney bus fleet. That means converting to a new technology as many as some 8,000 vehicles, mainly running on diesel so far. The news is reported on the media The Driven. Australia bus fleet and electric buses i...

A driveline for every need. Battery electric, hybrid, clean diesel, CNG-electric hybrid. Trolleybuses, also 24 meter lenght. And hydrogen in the foreground. Belgian bus manufacturer Van Hool brought to Busworld Europe 2019 exhibition no less than three new products: the first hydrogen-powered BRT bu...

MCI is launching a new electric coach in the US. Flixbus already took the opportunity to test it. Built by Motor Coach Industry (MCI), part of New Flyer Industries group, the vehicle has been sent on a Sacramento to San Francisco route (around 85 miles) for evaluation on October 28. MCI is bringing ...

Busworld Europe 2019. The biggest ‘bus and coach only’ exhibition in the world organized its first edition in Brussels from 18 to 23 October 2019. All numbers increased: more space (50,000 to 79,000 sqm), more exhibitors (376 to 511 of which 176 were newcomers) and more visitors (37,274 ...

The AKASystem AKM CYC high energy battery by Akasol gained the Innovation Award 2019 at the 25th Busworld exhibition in Brussels. Serial production for the first customers will begin as early as 2021. The main feature of the new battery module AKASystem AKM CYC, based on NMC, is the increased energy...

Proterra gets its first order from Idaho. In fact, the Valley Regional Transit (VRT) agreed to purchase eight Proterra Catalyst 35-foot E2 buses and eight 125 kW plug-in charging systems. As mentioned above, VRT is Proterra’s first customer in Idaho and the first transit agency in Idaho to bring ele...

The year 2019 may be remembered as the year when the electric bus sales volumes definitive ramp up. While in 2018 the European electric bus market increased of 48 per cent compared to 2017, in the first nine months of 2019 there has already been a + 100 per cent registrations. A fact made clear [&he...

A 275/70R22.5 tyre capable of carrying a steer axle load of eight tons. Michelin developed the X-Incity Energy Z looking at the electric bus market, in order to counterbalance the increased weight due to the batteries and allowing 500 kg more passenger capacity on board. The new model of tyre for el...