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17 battery-electric buses are going to hit Luxembourg City roads by the end of this year. Who won the tender? Volvo Buses, that is already active in the city mainly with plug-in hybrid buses. And the new contract has an option to increase the number to 25 buses. The news has been reported on the [&h...

KVB Cologne is almost ready to convert six bus route to electricity. 53 battery-electric buses have just been ordered: they’re VDL-branded, as the nine already in operation, and will be delivered from November 2020 on. The Dutch company resulted the winner of the European call to tender launch...

Omio in North America. The platform crosses the Atlantic Ocean and lands on the North American market. The company for booking city-to-city travels by bus and several other means of transportation announced its expansion from Berlin headquarter on the other side of the ocean. In the United States an...

ABB has been given the task to provide the charging infrastructures for Gothenburg electric bus fleet managed by Transdev. Starting in December 2020, 157 new Volvo 7900 Electric will start trafficking the streets of Gothenburg, Mölndal and Partille (the largest single electric bus order in Europe be...

16 new battery-electric buses are headed to Munich. Eight Ebusco 2.2 and eight eCitaro G (the first ordered so far), are going to hit the streets Bavarian capital city, where they’ll joint six Ebusco vehicles already in operation. The electric bus fleet operated by the public transport company...

Converting the whole truck fleet in the US to electricity would reduce the total demand for energy by 71 percent, because electric vehicles are significantly more efficient than diesel and gasoline vehicles, says a recent analysis released by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). The new report, ...

Solaris is working on a system that allow the bus driver to know precisely where to dock the pantograph under a charging station. The Polish manufacturer is cooperating with Poznań University of Technology in order to develop an advanced system of assistance for drivers of city buses, mostly electri...

Eberspaecher‘s novelty in the field of zero emission buses is called AC 136 HP CO2 and will be available from 2021 on. Behind the commercial name lies an electric thermal management system addressed at electric and hybrid bus market thanks to a specific use of natural refrigerant carbon dioxid...

Printed in 3D technology, electric and driverless. Three features that sum up the innovative potential of Olli, the autonomous shuttle that will soon be in service in Turin (Italy) for four months within the ITC-ILO campus. The vehicle was presented yesterday in the presence of Mayor Chiara Appendin...

A new electric bus rolls out in the United Arab Emirates. First of all a six-month trial, then the introduction in the bus fleet followed by further units. It’s the roadmap outlined by the Sharjah Roads and Transport Authority (SRTA) with regards to the introduction of the very first electric ...