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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...

The articulated electric bus fleet of Stadtwerke Osnabrück is celebrating a special anniversary: for almost a year and a half now, the 13 VDL Citea SLFA-181 electric buses have been running on the MetroBus line M1 between the districts of Haste and Duestrup, and have now reached the mark of one mill...

Ebusco announces the introduction of a new generation of CSS charging sockets for electric vehicles, developed with its supplier Phoenix. This socket is able to charge up to 500 Amps with HPC (High Performance Charging) technology (i.e. 240 kW). Ebusco, the focus is on depot charging The novelty is ...

The Sosnowiec City Transport Company is buying more electric buses from Solaris Bus & Coach, along with charging stations, which will be produced and delivered by Ekoenergetyka-Polska, the Polish supplier announces. The operator Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacji Miejskiej (PKM) signed in August a con...

Turkish bus manufacturer Karsan is establishing an electric vehicles laboratory. As part of its efforts to contribute to vocational training in the automotive industry, Karsan announced it has signed a “Protocol of Collaboration in Vocational and Technical Training” with Bursa Governor and Bursa Pro...

450 electric buses on Moscow’s roads. The major bus operator of the city, Mosgortrans, launched in August its zero emission bus. The vehicle is manufactured by the domestic company Kamaz. The city now prides itself to have one of the largest e-bus fleet in the world (China excluded). Since 201...

Enel X and AMP Capital: electric public transportation in Latin America in the spotlight. The two companies have launched a joint venture to accelerate the adoption of electric buses in the region through innovative business models. A practice already inaugurated in Santiago de Chile, where 433 BYD ...

EU-project BIOMOTIVE is seeking to develop bio-based products for automotive industry in order to replace non-biodegradable interior parts on vehicles with its biobased equivalent. The first results are promising and after industrial-scale tests planned in 2020, a bio-based thermoplastic polyurethan...