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Connected Energy announces it will invest £2 million in a new second-life EV battery testing facility in the UK, combining a 5MWh BESS with multi-manufacturer battery integration and scheduled to open by mid-2026. Connected Energy is developing what it describes as the UK’s most advanced second-life...

MAN Truck & Bus closed 2025 with 101,600 vehicles delivered (+6%), including over 7,000 buses (+49%) and a record 1,300+ electric city buses (+118%). Bus sales were growing +35% in the first nine months of 2025. After a difficult prior year, MAN’s 2025 results point to a clear recovery in the bu...

PostAuto has signed a framework agreement with Solaris Bus & Coach covering the supply of up to 115 battery-electric buses, with deliveries planned for 2026 and 2027. The Swiss public transport operator selected Solaris following tender procedures for both 12-metre and 18-metre electric buses, S...

As of 2024, electric buses have reached double-digit fleet shares in Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Denmark, but diesel continues to overwhelmingly dominate Europe’s buses overall (although, as still ACEA reported, between January and September 2025, registrations of electric buses in the European ...

The public bus operator serving Italy’s Dolomites, Dolomiti Bus, announces it is reinforcing its operational capacity in preparation for the Milano–Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games due to be held in February. According to a press release issued by Dolomiti Bus, the public transport o...

Kai Woerner has been appointed Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of cellcentric, effective January 2026. Cellcentric, the 50:50 fuel cell joint venture of Daimler Truck AG and the Volvo Group (launched in 2021) has announced a change in its management board with the appointment of Kai Wo...

In 2025, the Netherlands counted 2,748 zero-emission buses in operation (+853 on 2024), with electric buses accounting for 26% of all bus kilometres driven. At the same time, the share of diesel fell to 65% (from 69), according to CROW’s latest monitoring of public transport fleets. Still according ...

One of Austria’s largest charging depots for electric buses has been commissioned in Wolfurt, Vorarlberg, using Kempower’s distributed charging technology. A high-capacity electric bus charging hub built with Kempower systems has entered operation in Wolfurt, supporting the electrification of public...

Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL) has issued a large-scale tender for the procurement, operation and maintenance of 6,230 electric buses across multiple Indian cities under the PM E-DRIVE Scheme and Delhi’s public transport programme. CESL, a Government of India-backed entity under the Mini...

MAN Truck & Bus announces it has agreed with employee representatives on the MAN2030+ program, securing all German production sites while planning nearly €1 billion in domestic investments alongside wide-ranging cost reductions. MAN Truck & Bus SE has formalized a long-term restructuring and...