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20 battery-electric buses plus 10 trolleybuses. It’s an ‘holistic’ group of contracts the one signed by Lublin public transport authority ZTM with Solaris Bus & Coach. The value of the orders exceeds PLN 106 millions (over 24 million euros). Following this purchase, half of Lub...

The battery-electric coach has technical problems, the pilot is being discontinued. It is what FlixBus managing director DACH Fabian Stenger said to the regional newspaper Mannheimer Morgen with regards to the electric line launched in October 2018 between Frankfurt and Mannheim and operated through...

The first Iveco e-Way just started operations in Genoa (Italy) in the framework of a pilot. It’s the very first time of a battery-electric bus featuring Iveco’s logo. The bus, essentially, is the Heuliez GX 337 Elec, which is going through a re-branding process started at Busworld 2019, ...

Battery cost is bound to fall below $100/kWh by 2024. It used to be, averagely, above $1,100 per kilowatt-hour in 2010. The decrease in battery costs has not ended yet: prices have fallen 87% in real terms to $156/kWh in 2019. All these figures come from the BNEF’s 2019 Battery Price Survey from res...

October: the presentation of the new generation batteries, with amazing stated performances at Busworld Brussels. November: the reduction of the revenue forecast for 2019 due to «unplanned postponement of purchase quantities by our serial customers». Finally, December: the release of Jan-Sept 2019 r...

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The order was signed in March, the start of operation happened on the 29th November. On that day 164 new electric buses were put in operation for Qbuzz in the concession Groningen/Drenthe, in the Netherlands: 45 Citea from VDL Bus & Coach, 59 GX 437 Elec from Heuliez and 60 Ebusco 2.2 buses. Thi...

New trolleybuses are coming to Bergen. For the first time Solaris enters in the Norwegian trolleybus market. The city operator Keolis Norge signed an order for 10 Solaris Trollino 18. In line with the agreement, with a total value of EUR 8 million, the deliveries of the Polish-made trolleybus to Nor...

40 Yutong battery-powered trolleybus have been put in operation in Mexico City. Further 23 vehicles are expected to arrive in December. Their main feature is the battery on board, that according to In Motion Technology scheme, allows zero emission operation even in the areas not covered with wire li...

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) will award $423 million in transit infrastructure grants nationwide to “improve the safety and reliability of America’s bus systems and enhance mobility for transit riders”, quoting the press information from FTA. A total of 94 projects in 42 stat...