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Arrival announces it has entered into a definitive business combination agreement with CIIG Merger Corp. The newly combined company will be listed on the NASDAQ under the new ticker symbol “ARVL”. The transaction values the combined company at an enterprise value of US $5.4 billion and is expected t...

Testing has begun on the infrastructure of the Metromare, the BRT line that links Rimini to Riccione, on the Adriatic sea in Italy. The new ruote, launched one year ago, will be operated by nine trolleybuses Van Hool Exqui.City 18. Three of them have landed in Italy so far, as the supply has been po...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a green plan focused on investments in renewable sources and clean mobility. A so called ‘Green Industrial Revolution’ which aims to create 250,000 jobs. The decalogue, in ten points, contains a specific issue on mobility: «Investing in zero-...

How much energy is regenerated? How much is used by accessories? Which is the average energy efficiency of an e-bus? ViriCiti launches a new report on the energy distribution of electric buses. The report analyzed data from 375 electric buses from 4 different OEMs, which are in service across 14 dif...

Electrification, through retrofit, of existing buses and trucks. It’s the mission shared by Voith Group and the e-truck manufacturer Orten Electric-Trucks: the two companies are partnering in order to provide easy and cost-efficient retrofit solutions for commercial vehicles. The opportunity w...

Kreisel Electric and Shell announce they have developed a unique battery solution combining Kreisel’s lithium-ion battery module technology with Shell’s thermal management fluid. The Kreisel and Shell battery system stands out for being based on immersive cooling technology (cells are fully immersed...

Arrival announced the hiring of Tom Elvidge as the CEO of Arrival Mobility in the UK, overseeing the growth of Arrival’s mobility service offerings. Arrival Mobility mission «is focused on building a radically different mobility ecosystem, with services that accelerate the transition from owning veh...

Scania has planned an investment of over 100 million euros in a battery assembly plant (plus battery laboratory) in its headquarters of Södertälje, Sweden. The move will get along with the expansion of Scania’s electrified range of trucks, buses and engines. The initial step is a 18,000-square metre...

Daily, the VDL Citeas Electric are driving 150,000 operational kilometres. Within Europe there are driving more than 750 VDL Citeas Electric. These electric Citeas, delivered between 2015 and the first half of 2020 in many European cities and regions, cover more than 150,000 electric driven kilometr...

CNH Industrial is the leader in the Machinery and Electrical Equipment Industry Group in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), World and Europe, for the tenth consecutive year. The group, which includes the bus brands Iveco Bus and Heuliez Bus, made this public today. With a winning score of ...