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FPT Industrial will develop in-house battery packs thanks to a cooperation with Microvast. The systems are to be built in Turin (Italy). The powertrain brand of CHN Industrial and the technological company based in Texas have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, «aimed at an industrial and commerci...

They stands out for the purple color. The first three Mercedes eCitaro just delivered to Wiesbaden have been presented yesterday: the mark the beginning of what Daimler Buses call “the battery bus era” in the capital city of Hesse (Germany). The buses belong to the 56 units order signed ...

Mild hybrid module paired with a CNG-fuelled engine. In Italy MAN Truck & Bus has won the tender for the supply of 40 units of such kind of vehicle to TPER, public transport company of Bologna. The tender saw MAN winning over Mercedes, that offered the Citaro NGT hybrid (93 units of this are ope...

Bogotà goes electric. With a batch of no less than 379 electric buses provided by BYD. A few days after the announcement of the 130 electric bus order in Los Angeles (a record for the US), the Latin American deal was concluded yesterday, 15th November. The Chinese group has already a large fleet in ...

The new Irizar ie bus is ready for the market. It features a series of technological innovations that make it a highly implemented version of the range so far commercialized by the Spanish group. The Irizar ie bus is the ‘heir’ of the Irizar i2e which was the first zero emission vehicle ...

BYD in Los Angeles takes the largest order of electric buses so far signed in the US. Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) in fact ordered 130 battery-electric K7M buses, the largest single order of battery-electric buses to date in the United States. On the other side of the Atlantic oc...

ZF joins the MaaS Alliance, a pan-European interest group of companies and public and private societies that aims to bring about a paradigm shift in urban mobility, promote networked mobility concepts, and create uniform standards for technologies and legislation. City centers ask for integrated mob...

A bus that can move electrically and independently, without driver on board, within the depot? It’s already here. Volvo Buses has recently held a live demonstration of a 7900 Electric city bus equipped for autonomous driving. The demonstration took place in cooperation with Keolis in a depot j...

BYD and VDL lead the electric bus boom in Western Europe (and Poland). In the first nine months of 2019 the two manufacturers have delivered the same number of battery-electric buses (205), and thus they are sitting together on the top of the electric bus maker’s chart in terms of registration...

Alabama is ready to see the first electric buses in operation. AAMU Transportation is going to unveil today, 13th November, two Proterra zero emission buses. They’ll be deployed within the Bulldog Transit System (BTS) inside the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The deliver...