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Nearly 1,000 electric buses will join De Lijn bus fleet over the next 15 years. The Belgian public transport company is looking for suppliers, both for the electric bus units and the charging infrastructures. To this extent, the bus operator is demanding an additional financing to the Flemish govern...

Thomas Built Buses and Proterra welcome the first large order for the jointly developed electric school bus Jouley. The subsidiary of Daimler Buses, in fact, has been selected as the provider of all 50 electric school buses allocated for the initial phase of Dominion Energy’s electric school bus rep...

Wuppertal (Germany) has received the first of ten fuel cell bus vehicles. The next five hydrogen-powered vehicles from the manufacturer Van Hool are expected by the public utility company WSW in January and the rest in February. Cologne is expected to receive 30 hydrogen buses. Recently, the first h...

Irizar e-mobility delivered electric buses in Portugal for the first time. Both the 10.8 metre Irizar ie bus zero emissions electric buses are already in operation in the city of Bragança. Today, the Spanish brand is present in more than 7 countries. The Irizar ie bus range has been recently updated...

Some of the electric buses in London will produce an artificial sound as early as next year in order to warn people for their arrival and thus reducing the risk of possible accidents. The sound (called Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System) has been developed by Zelig Sound, a long-time collaborator of T...

Heliox announces a change to the management team: as of 2nd of January 2020, Michael Colijn takes the position of CEO. Looking at 2020, Heliox new venture in the short term will be the implementation of the charging infrastructure project for ESWE Verkehr Wiesbaden, where 56 Mercedes eCitaro will be...

VHH and MAN are working together to test how used batteries behave after initial use in vehicles and as a stationary energy storage system, under real-world operating conditions. To this end, in the Bergedorf quarter of Hamburg, a container with a total capacity of 500 kWh has been connected to the ...

The first two MAN Lion’s City E has been handovered today to the two Hamburg‘s public transport operator: Hochbahn and VHH (the latter has just signed the first tender-based order for the bus). A MAN’s demo fleet of 15 electric buses will be on the road in customer operations in five Eur...

Which is the effect of cold weather on the electric bus range? Is battery-electric or fuel cell the best option when it comes to performance during winter? A new study, realized in the US and funded under a National Fuel Cell Bus Program grant, provides a clear answer: the switch to cold temperature...

It’s time to hit the road for batch of electric bus at Birmingham airport. Six Volvo 7900e, whose purchase was announced in March 2019, are fitting the airport’s plan to reach a target of net zero carbon emission by 2033. The new service is part of a framework agreement initiative from t...