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Volvo Buses has officially started a test regarding the second life of electric bus batteries. Sustainable Bus already reported about the preparations HERE. Today, 5th December, the company announced the official inauguration of what is probably Europe’s first ever energy warehouse using electric bu...

The newcomer of the electric VDL Citea family got its first order. Finnish public transport company Tammelundin Liikenne Oy, that provides the regional transport in Helsinki for the public transport authority HSL with around 40 buses, is the first customer to place an order for 2 units of VDL Citea ...

New York State has launched an electric school bus test fleet. The five vehicles were purchased from Lion Electric and are used by the operator National Express. Range? About a hundred kilometers, with night recharging times of 4-6 hours. The news is reported in local press and New York Times. 66 mi...

RATP‘s charging infrastructures in Paris will be provided by the Polish consortium Ekoenergetyka-Polska and El-Cab. The companies won a tender for delivering at least 62 charging stations for electric buses to RATP (Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens). The agreement is in force for two co...

The Zero Emission Bus Conference 2018 brought together 370+ policy makers, bus operators and industry experts to drive forward the realisation of zero emission public transport for Europe. The first edition, that was held in 2016 in London, received 250 registrations: attendees increased by 50 per c...

13 Volvo electric buses 7900 will start operating on route 7 in Malmö from mid-December. The vehicles are part of one of the biggest investments ever in all-electric bus traffic in Sweden. The buses, deployed by Nobina, are equipped with fast charging systems and are charged at the end stations of t...

Up the curtain on the first electric buses Irizar ie tram for Barcelona. That will also be the first ie tram in real public transport operation. Yesterday (Friday 30th November), Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) and representatives of Irizar e-mobility officially unveiled four battery ele...

100 percent electric bus fleet by 2030. Californian public transport company Santa Barbara MTD’s Board of Directors has adopted this goal for the transition to a full electric fleet. 14 out of 112 buses of MTD’s fleet are already zero emission: the operator prides itself to boasts the second l...

Xuemei Bai, a leading expert and thought leader on urbanization and sustainability, receives the Volvo Environment Prize 2018. More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and the trend keeps growing at an unprecedented rate. In future we will need drastically different ways of planning...

ADL adds the fuel cell bus to its range, that already include diesel, hybrids and battery electric buses, the last powered by BYD. The technology has been developed on an Enviro400 double deck bus which has delivered best-in-class performance during route shadowing trials, says Alexander Dennis Limi...