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VDL announces its first ‘electric’ project in Italy. A news anticipated yesterday by the interview published on these pages at CEO Henk Coppens. Coming soon: 4 VDL Citea SLF-120 Electric for Malpensa airport. The batch of buses will run between the car parks, terminals 1 and 2, and Cargo...

VDL Bus & Coach is ready for the breakthrough in Italy with the zero emission range (today only Class III vehicles are commercialized in the country): the first units are headed to Malpensa airport. And pilots on hydrogen are continuing at full speed, building the future of coaches (and heavy-du...

AMT Genoa goes with Irizar e-mobility for its first standard-size electric bus order. The operator has signed a contract for 14 Irizar ie bus 10.8m long electric buses and their charging facilities, following a European call for tender. The Irizar zero‑emissions buses (ie bus range has been recently...

Diesel buses converted by e-troFit will be equipped with Voltabox battery system. ZF drivetrains will thus go along with Voltabox technology. More information are becoming official about e-troFit kit for conversion of diesel buses to zero emission ones. A new venture presented during UITP Summit in ...

Chinese manufacturer of electric buses will be producing in Bulgaria in a new 25 million euros plant. The Chinese companies ACN Worldwide and Jiangsu Alfa Bus in fact have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bulgaria’s investment agency for cooperation in the construction of a 25 m...

VDL Bus & Coach is celebrating the milestone of 50 million ‘electric’ kilometres with the launch of a new range of batteries, that can reach a capacity of 525 kWh. The 670 Citea Electric currently on the road in Europe are running for an average of 130,000 km every day. At the same t...

In 2019 the European electric bus market set a new record tripling the figures of 2018. Nearly 12 per cent of city buses registered in 2019 were battery-electric. But things are going to get even deeper, very soon: Interact Analysis forecasts that “approximately 40% of new city buses registere...

Improve bus and cycling services across the country. This is the target of a wide range of actions announced by UK prime minister Boris Johnson. To this extent the government has pledged £5bn (roughly 5,900,000,000 euros) over the next five years, as reported on BBC. Boris Johnson has said that the ...

14 Solaris Urbino 18 Electric and nine Irizar i2e articulated will be in operation in Barcelona on H16 line with the livery of TMB. The tender launched in summer 2019 has ended its journey with the awarding of two contract for totally 23 e-buses. The procurement has a value of 20.7 million euros, an...

Akasol‘s plant in Darmstadt will have fully automated production lines for battery modules supplied by Manz AG. The German supplier, which cooperates with Mercedes for the eCitaro battery equipment, expects to inaugurate the Gigafactory 1 at the new Darmstadt Headquarter Campus by the middle o...