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Patrick Jeantet has been appointed as Keolis Group Executive Chairman. He’ll begin in the new position in early 2020. He already had been working in Keolis from 2005 to 2013. Patrick Jeantet replaces Jean-Pierre Farandou. The group, which employees 65,000 people across 16 countries, has recent...

A Hyundai fuel cell bus for the Korean police. The vehicle has been unveiled a few days ago and features large internal space for police equipment. It is powered by a 95 kW fuel cell module with tanks located on the roof and will be tested during 2020. The first hydrogen powered police buses are [&h...

Nine per cent of the public transport buses in the Netherlands are today electrically powered. And one third of them is operated by Arriva. The exact figure is 157 ebuses belonging to the fleet of the group, out of a total Dutch zero emission bus fleet of 468 vehicles. These data come from the Dutch...

«Electrification alone won’t solve the challenges we are facing». CNG and LNG buses remain good applications outside of the city centers. Hydrogen? Not now. This is Scania philosophy, as explained by Karin Rådström, earlier this year appointed Executive Vice President, Head of Sales and Market...

Where is the electric bus market going in Europe and North America? Why zero emission bus fleets need to be monitored? What data can be used for? And, what is more, the hot topic: what is the average electric bus’ energy consumption? We faced these topics (and many others) with Alexander Schab...

Transdev and Volvo Buses (plus, of course, the city of Gothenburg) are the protagonist of the largest single order of electric buses so far signed in Europe. Volvo Buses will in fact deliver as many as 157 electric articulated buses in Gothenburg starting in 2020. The buses, as already reported on S...

ABB invests in Baden on energy storage systems for mobility. A new facility just inaugurated in Baden (Switzerland) will host the production of storage systems for electric buses and trolleybuses, as well as railways and electric trucks. Future uses of storage systems include applications in trolley...

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,...