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Konin is the last Polish city to order Solaris electric buses. The value of the contract covering the purchase of six electric buses and of three chargers slightly exceeds PLN 16 million (3.7 million euros). The vehicles are to be delivered to the municipal operator Miejski Zakład Komunikacyjny (MZK...

Hydrogen BRT bus and an electric coach for US market. These are the main premieres Van Hool is going to showcase at Busworld 2019, together with a new variant of the EX coach that features a lenght of 11 meter (the shorter in the gamma). The articulated Exqui.City hydrogen powered is almost ready to...

Curtain has been risen on a new electric BRT line in French Basque Country, operated by Keolis through ten Irizar articulated electric buses. The line, 12 km long, features 30 stations and connects Bayonne with Biarritz in 30 minutes. A second line will be opened in 2020, when further 8 vehicles wil...

LFP battery industry must be grateful to Chinese electric bus market. While Western markets primarily use NMC formulas, in China LFP is the main technology. With China accounting for as many as 98 per cent of the electric buses in operation worldwide… the impact of this demand is huge. The top...

Flash charging ‘approaches’ Chinese market. ABB is going to ‘export’ the TOSA model (flash-charging during bus stops) in China thanks to an agreement signed with bus manufacturer King Long. According to the understatement, the two companies will jointly develop an ebus suitab...

Solaris is delivering three electric buses for the surroundings of Munich (on the MVV network). These will be the first zero emission buses by Solaris to be operated in Germany by a private company. The carrier, in fact, is the long term Solaris customer Josef Ettenhuber, that was the first to purch...

Hamburg will be the first city to test the Mercedes eCitaro with fuel cell range extender. The public transport company Hamburger Hochbahn is going to purchase 530 electric buses between 2021 and 2025. Also hydrogen applications will be in the spotlight. Starting in 2021, the operator will be field-...

The Italian initiative Mobility Innovation Tour stops off in Cagliari, on 17th September, where the public transport network managed by CTM represents one of the most interesting case study in the national public transport sector. The conference will be part of the European Mobility Week 2019. The o...

Skoda Electric will adopt Skeleton Technologies ultracapacitor systems for 114 trams to be delivered to Mannheim, Heidelberg, and Ludwigshafen in Germany. The contract has been awarded to Skoda Transportation by Rhein-Neckar transport authority RNV on June 2018. Skoda Transportation will use Skoda E...

Solaris claims to be the first manufacturer in Europe in terms of contracts for electric buses in 2019 (so far). A position related to the three large orders placed by customers from Berlin, Warsaw and Milan, for a maximum amount of 470 vehicles. And 90 more electric buses have been ordered through ...