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ZF launches a new central drive for electric buses and medium-duty trucks. The application has been developed in China and is addressed to Chinese market, where also the production will take place from 2020. Moreover, Chinese EV market is the biggest in the world (in the country around 18 per cent o...

Proterra and Mitsui establish a collaboration. A battery electric bus at the same price as a diesel bus. Pure dream? Of course yes, at least now. According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, «Electric buses will reach unsubsidized upfront cost parity with diesel buses by around 2030» (from ‘Electric b...

Below, a contribution from AUTOBUS magazine Waiting for the official results of the 250 ebus call of tender issued by ATM Milano (first order: 40 vehicles. Awarding should come shortly), in Italy the spotlight is now upon some tenders that may change the future balances. Many tenders on electric bus...

In 2018, 5% of city buses registered in Western Europe and Poland were battery-electric buses. Electric buses registrations increased by 48% between 2017 and 2018. The figures comes from CME Solutions, which quantifies 562 registrations of battery-electric buses over 8 tons made during 2018. 562 ele...

Ebe Europa will supply 15 hydrogen buses equipped with Proton Power Systems fuel cell system in Germany. The news was announced a few days ago. Proton Power System received a order from Memmingen company Ebe Europa (integrator and distributor of electric buses) for 15 hydrogen powered fuel cells of ...

The first VDL Citea Electric in France begins operations in Orléans, where the whole public transport network is expected to be fully electrified by 2024. The order follows a pilot held in 2017. Orléans: target emission-free bus transport by 2024 The French government wants to drastically reduce the...

It is the largest order so far for the battery electric bus by Daimler. 56 units of Mercedes eCitaro will be supplied to the public transport company ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH from Wiesbaden (Germany’s Hesse region). 41 of them will be equipped with solid state batteries. The former larges...

The first Solaris electric bus in Lithuania will hit Tauragė’s roads in March 2020. At least, this is the expected timing. On 21 March, Solaris signed a contract with the municipal transport operator of Tauragė for the delivery of one unit of Urbino 8,9 LE electric. The first battery Solaris w...

Tires for electric buses need to support a usually higher overall vehicle weight compared to diesel buses. The reasons? Heavy battery packs and stand instant torque delivery. This is why Continental launched a tire specially dedicated to electric buses, under the name Conti Urban HA3, available in t...

RATP announced today a framework agreement for a potential amount of up to 800 electric buses to be delivered in the period 2019 – 2024. The buses (12-meter) will be supplied by Heuliez, Bollorè and Alstom, following a call for tender worth up to 400 million euros. According to this framework ...