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Electric bus deployment in North European countries is hugely increasing: during 2019 the number of ebuses in operation is expected to rise from 56 to 467. Danish public transport authority Movia is foreseen to have 77 ebuses deployed. Sustainable Bus discussed with Jeppe Gaard, CRO for Contracts in...

Spanish operator ALSA is going to receive two Solaris Urbino 12 Electric and two stationary chargers. The vehicles, to be delivered later this year, will operate on the public transport network of Bilbao, the biggest city of the Basque country, ‘homeland’ of Solaris owner CAF group (as w...

CaetanoBus will showcase the hydrogen bus (developed with Toyota technology) at Busworld 2019 in Brussels. Named H2.City Gold, the fuel cell bus is an addition to the clean bus portfolio of the Portuguese manufacturer, that already includes the battery electric bus e.City Gold and the chassis e.CC.1...

European Investment Bank funds the purchase of over 200 electric and hybrid buses for Rotterdam region (105 ebuses and 103 hybrids, to be precise). The 115 million euros loan has been announced today and is dedicated to support RET‘s investment programme for the coming years. Besides buying el...

Electric buses are catching on in North Europe and VDL changes its management. The goal is to be ready to respond to current and future developments in a region (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) that has seen VDL delivering more than 100 electric buses in 2019. At the end of this year, the total...

From 56 to 467. In one year. Such is expected to be the increase in the number of zero emission buses deployed in the North European countries in 2019. Sweden leads the group of countries with 245 ebuses in operation, followed by Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland. Nobina is the operator with the hig...

Webasto announced it has started the production of batteries for electric vehicles in Germany. A supply agreement with a «European bus maker» (not specified) is already underway. Cells for Webasto batteries come from Samsung SDI, as announced in 2018. The same provider that has been recently involve...

All bus types and chargers technologies integrated in the same fleet monitoring system. It’s the novelty provided by “Mixed fleet” platform launched by Dutch telematics company ViriCiti. The system has been jointly developed with public transport company Qbuzz Netherlands, accordin...

BYD supplies its electric bus chassis for Volgren in Australia. The largest bus bodymaker in the country (part of Marco Polo group) will showcase its very first electric bus on 1st October at 2019 at Bus Expo and Maintenance Conference in Victoria. It’ll be built on the top sold 12.2 metre-lon...

Akasol keeps Samsung SDI as lithium-ion battery celles and modules supplier. The South Korean company has been nominated by Akasol for two serial projects with leading global commercial vehicle manufacturers (not specified). The agreement was signed at International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt. Th...