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MAN Lion’s City 18 E electric bus, the first vehicles from series production will be handed over next year. The bus stands out for featuring 640 kWh battery and two driven axles, in order to allow more power as well as more energy recuperation during braking. Only depot charging is permitted, ...

Allison Transmission announces the launch of eGen Flex, its new zero emission-capable electric hybrid system addressed at the bus market. The US operator IndyGo has signed an order for the H 40 EP electric hybrid propulsion solution to power 27 new buses. The eGen Flex will stand out for being the i...

Toronto’s transit operator TTC announces that it is operating the largest fleet of electric buses in North America. The milestone comes as the TTC’s third new electric bus model is now road ready and starting to go into service. Today 35 e-buses are in operation, out of 60 globally ordered. Th...

Yutong has been focusing on autonomous driving, and showed the results achieved so far during a live demonstration which saw the debut of the Yutong U12, presented at Busworld 2019 in Brussels. The U12 was in fact one of the two buses equipped with the driverless innovative technology, as also the Y...

Volvo Buses cooperates with Batteryloop (subsidiary of Stena Recycling) with the goal of reuse the bus batteries as energy storage units after they are removed from Volvo’s buses. For instance, applications can be in buildings and charging stations. The new recently signed agreement focused at...

On 10 September, the first batch of 29 electric buses arrived in Bergen as part of a contract awarded by Bergen’s Skyss public transport authority for Keolis to operate and maintain 138 fossil-free buses, including 102 all-electric vehicles, awarded to Yutong. The all-electric buses are being shippe...

How can the use of AI generate cost reductions and improve battery lifespan? In the transition from ICE vehicles to electric ones, operators face several challenges. New parameters come into play. And Artificial Intelligence could play a major role. We discussed the topic with Devashish Paul, C...

It’s mild hybrid time for Solaris, also. After Mercedes and MAN, the Polish producer has prepared an addition to the product portfolio, thus enriching the existing offer of low-emission vehicles with the Solaris Urbino mild hybrid. It is worth mentioning that Solaris had presented, in late 201...

Voyages Ecker, a subsidiary of the Voyages Emile Weber Group, Luxembourg, received its first four MAN Lion’s City E battery-electric buses. The solo buses are a pilot series that were delivered to the Voyages Emile Weber Group under a partnership agreement with MAN and the Luxembourg sales partner L...

Electric buses are poised to cross the Arctic Circle, direction north. Volvo Buses makes public it got an order for the future northernmost battery-electric buses in the world. The city of Bodø in the very north of Norway has indeed placed an order for a comprehensive package consisting of 31 electr...