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Lyon gets a new autonomous shuttle service. Operated via Navya electric driverless vehicles in cooperation with Sytral and Keolis, the open-road experiment will be fully integrated within Lyon’s public transport network. Area? The Parc Olympique Lyonnais stadium. Another pilot involving a shuttle su...

Below, a contribution from Vincent Wever, sustainable transport specialist at consultancy agency Goudappel Coffeng. In September, the city of Leiden had a silent milestone: the 500th zero emission bus in the Netherlands went into service. We’ve come a long way since in 2015, the leaders of the PTAs ...

MZA Warsaw chooses Ekoenergetyka for the second time. The Polish capital city has ordered further 65 plug-in charging stations (plus 3 pantograph stations) from the domestic supplier Ekoenergetyka. 20 fast charging spots were already been contracted in the summer. Nearly 100 Ekoenergetyka stations i...

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...