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Akasol adjusts the revenue forecast for 2019, due to the fact that «serial customer of battery systems for electric buses postpones orders to 2020», and another customer in the ebus field has registered figures lower than originally planned, says the company. Name of the manufacturers are not specif...

Good bye Daimler Trucks & Buses, welcome Daimler Truck AG. The Daimler Group launched on 1st November 2019 a new corporate structure. All Daimler Trucks & Buses activities are now bundled together in Daimler Truck AG. The spin-off of the business divisions passenger cars and vans as well as ...

A new ‘job’ for second-life batteries. Electric bus manufactuer Irizar is entering a partnership with Ibil in order to allow the reuse of the batteries at the end of their useful life on the vehicles (generally when the maximum capacity reaches 80 percent of the original capacity). Ibil,...

ASEAG dresses the Mercedes eCitaro in black and white. Aachen, in Germany, has just taken delivery of 7 Mercedes battery electric buses, and up to further 20 units are coming. The public transport operator Aachener Straßenbahn und Energieversorgungs AG (ASEAG) ordered up to 27 electric city buses. W...

Foton Motor is going to produce electric buses in Egypt. The first delivery has been executed a few days ago. The electric bus production in Egypt will be developed within a collaborazione between Foton Motor, the Egyptian Ministry of Military Production and the Egyptian company IMUT (International ...

Australia bus fleet will get a touch of… green. There are plans to fully electrify Sydney bus fleet. That means converting to a new technology as many as some 8,000 vehicles, mainly running on diesel so far. The news is reported on the media The Driven. Australia bus fleet and electric buses i...

A driveline for every need. Battery electric, hybrid, clean diesel, CNG-electric hybrid. Trolleybuses, also 24 meter lenght. And hydrogen in the foreground. Belgian bus manufacturer Van Hool brought to Busworld Europe 2019 exhibition no less than three new products: the first hydrogen-powered BRT bu...

MCI is launching a new electric coach in the US. Flixbus already took the opportunity to test it. Built by Motor Coach Industry (MCI), part of New Flyer Industries group, the vehicle has been sent on a Sacramento to San Francisco route (around 85 miles) for evaluation on October 28. MCI is bringing ...

Busworld Europe 2019. The biggest ‘bus and coach only’ exhibition in the world organized its first edition in Brussels from 18 to 23 October 2019. All numbers increased: more space (50,000 to 79,000 sqm), more exhibitors (376 to 511 of which 176 were newcomers) and more visitors (37,274 ...

The AKASystem AKM CYC high energy battery by Akasol gained the Innovation Award 2019 at the 25th Busworld exhibition in Brussels. Serial production for the first customers will begin as early as 2021. The main feature of the new battery module AKASystem AKM CYC, based on NMC, is the increased energy...