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Public transport agency Groningen Drenthe has commissioned the construction of a hydrogen filling station, the supply of hydrogen and the purchase of 20 hydrogen buses. Shell Nederland has won the tender for the supply of hydrogen for the buses and is building a hydrogen filling station in Groningen...

Irish National Transport Authority issued a tender for up to 600 double decker hybrid buses. The whole batch of vehicles will be awarded to a single manufacturer, according to NTA plans. The purchase is part of the BusConnects programme. The vehicles must be able to run in zero emission mode, so tha...

Seoul will see the city electric bus fleet to grow to 143 vehicles. According to a statement from the government (and reported on local press), from November further 114 electric buses will start operation in the capital city of South Korea. Subsidized ebuses for Seoul The batch of electric buses wi...

Solar energy to power the tram network. It is happening in Melbourne, where the Numurah Solar Farm, just opened, prides itself to be the largest facility in Victoria state (Australia). It will generate 255 GWh of clean energy each year. Green powered trams in Melbourne The 128 MW Numurah Solar Farm ...

Catherine Guillouard has been reappointed President and CEO of RATP for a new five year term. Thus, she will guide the group through a period that will be marked by the challenges of the energy transition (RATP has the goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2025) and towards the call for tender...

Protean Electric put powertrain, steering system and suspension in one single product addressed to the world of next generation autonomous vehicles, for both people and goods transportation. Just think to the field of driverless shuttles (a kind of vehicle that had lot of room at last UITP Global Pu...

Proterra announced that Mike Boggess has joined the company’s growing technical engineering team as Vice President of Controls, Electrical and Thermal Systems. In his new role at Proterra, Boggess will be responsible for driving the company’s technology roadmap and program launch efforts and will le...

Busworld International granted the license to organise Busworld India to Messe Frankfurt Trade Fairs India, the Indian subsidiary of the group. The agreement, Busworld points out, will strengthen Busworld’s position in India by lifting the steadily growing exhibition to a higher level. Busworld Indi...

Today MZA Warsaw, in Poland, signed a contract for the purchase of 130 electric articulated buses Solaris Urbino 18 Electric. The news is reported on the Polish magazine InfoBus. The order will allow Warsaw to eliminate diesel powered buses from the so called “Royal route”, in the center...

Gothenburg will soon have 220 electric bus units on its public transport network. Public transport agency Västtrafik, after having ordered 30 electric buses from Volvo in summer 2018, took the option for another batch of as many as 130 electric buses. The buses will be operated in Gothenburg, Mölnda...