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Standardization, market trends, the trend for depot charging and the importance of pantograph charging. And also: autonomous driving and regulations. We met Marcel Rümenapf, Sales & Account Manager for utility vehicle charging in Europe & Latin America at Siemens Smart Infrastructure. A unit...

After Alabama, here comes New Mexico. Proterra set a new ‘first’ in US, this time signing a contract with the bus operator Atomic City Transit. The company of Los Alamos, New Mexico, has agreed to purchase two Proterra Catalyst 35-foot E2 buses together with two Proterra 125 kW plug-in c...

Nine electric buses together in a three-days test drive. A great glance under the sky (quite grey…) of Bonn. Seven players from the world of electric buses gathered in a three-day road test under the umbrella of Ebus Test event (18-20 November 2019), managed by the German magazine Omnibusspieg...

Martini Bus, a private operator in Venice, has purchased its first electric coach from Yutong. The operator’s bus fleet has been recently enriched by a Yutong ICE12, which will be used for the shuttle service between the airport and the railway station. The manufacturer is in the running to pl...

The interurban line 33E between Beauvais and Compiègne, in the French region of Oise, turns the electric switch on for four found trips per day. An electric coach manufacturer by BYD, that assemble its vehicles for the French market in a dedicated plant near Beauvais, has been introduced yesterday o...

Solaris zero emission buses headed to Hungary for the first time. The city of Paks, located in the central part of the country, ordered 10 battery electric buses from Solaris. The signed contract concerns the delivery of six Solaris Urbino 12 electric vehicles and four 8.9 meter long electric buses ...

FPT Industrial will develop in-house battery packs thanks to a cooperation with Microvast. The systems are to be built in Turin (Italy). The powertrain brand of CHN Industrial and the technological company based in Texas have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, «aimed at an industrial and commerci...

They stands out for the purple color. The first three Mercedes eCitaro just delivered to Wiesbaden have been presented yesterday: the mark the beginning of what Daimler Buses call “the battery bus era” in the capital city of Hesse (Germany). The buses belong to the 56 units order signed ...

Mild hybrid module paired with a CNG-fuelled engine. In Italy MAN Truck & Bus has won the tender for the supply of 40 units of such kind of vehicle to TPER, public transport company of Bologna. The tender saw MAN winning over Mercedes, that offered the Citaro NGT hybrid (93 units of this are ope...

Bogotà goes electric. With a batch of no less than 379 electric buses provided by BYD. A few days after the announcement of the 130 electric bus order in Los Angeles (a record for the US), the Latin American deal was concluded yesterday, 15th November. The Chinese group has already a large fleet in ...