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The battery-electric coach has technical problems, the pilot is being discontinued. It is what FlixBus managing director DACH Fabian Stenger said to the regional newspaper Mannheimer Morgen with regards to the electric line launched in October 2018 between Frankfurt and Mannheim and operated through...

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 ...

Electromobility, digitalization, autonomous driving. These three issues are being addressed by TRATON group (formerly Volkswagen Truck & Bus) through an ambitious investment plan. 1 billion will be invested in emobility R&D, 1 other billion will be spent on digitalization. 1 billion euros in...

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...

The manufacturer is not specified, but according to Akasol words it’s the “one of the world´s leading commercial vehicle manufacturers”. And it’s “globally operating”. What the battery supplier announces is a high three-digit million-euro range follow-up order. Fr...

Iveco autonomous bus prototype is coming in early 2021. It is being developed in the framework of STAR project and thanks to a wide range of partnerships between Iveco Bus and a group of companies and laboratories. The main partner is anyway EasyMile, a French company that already developed and pres...

A call for tender for 594 electric buses. Chinese manufacturers are on the front line. The maxi order is up for grabs in Colombian capitol city Bogotà, where the city government plans to introduce a large batch of electric buses into the urban public transport system, hitherto monopolised by diesel ...

UITP Global Public Transport Summit 2019 sees the ‘consecration’ of battery electric buses and relaunches hydrogen buses (at least in the world of product novelties). Solaris presented its Urbino 12 hydrogen, that promises an autonomy of 350 kilometers. This model is not just a concept: ...

Around two thirds of city bus operations will be electric by 2030. It’s the assumption that is guiding MAN Truck & Bus along a strategy that is culminating in the mass production of the MAN Lion’s City E from the second half of 2020, following trials that will take place in Hamburg, ...