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An electric powertrain developed in order to repower Van Hool coaches converting them to zero emission operations. The product will be offered to the North American market by ABC Companies (Van Hool distributor in North America) together with Lightning Systems. The latter is a Colorado-based develop...

2020 is expected to be a crucial year for the switch of commuter shuttles in the Silicon Valley to battery-electric technology. In this framework, the biotechnology corporation Genentech represents today a bright rare case: the company is going to convert half of its commuter shuttles fleet to zero ...

The world’s first hydrogen-powered BRT system is called Fébus and is operational in the south of France. The city of Pau has seen yesterday the roll-out of the eight Van Hool Exqui.City FC 18-meter hydrogen buses. They serve 14 stations along a six kilometre long dedicated BRT lane with priori...

The debut of electric articulated buses in New York. On Sunday, the first 18-meter zero emission bus (from New Flyer) was deployed by MTA on one of the city’s busiest crosstown routes – the 14th Street busway – as part of the agency’s plan to enhance and modernize the bus fleet. 15 articulated elect...

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) will award $423 million in transit infrastructure grants nationwide to “improve the safety and reliability of America’s bus systems and enhance mobility for transit riders”, quoting the press information from FTA. A total of 94 projects in 42 stat...

Navistar approaches the era of electric truck and bus development. The American company has launched a new business unit to this purpose, named NEXT eMobility Solutions. Vehicles developed by NEXT, based in Detroit, will be offered under the umbrella of Navistar subsidiaries International Truck and ...

Where is the electric bus market going in Europe and North America? Why zero emission bus fleets need to be monitored? What data can be used for? And, what is more, the hot topic: what is the average electric bus’ energy consumption? We faced these topics (and many others) with Alexander Schab...

A driveline for every need. Battery electric, hybrid, clean diesel, CNG-electric hybrid. Trolleybuses, also 24 meter lenght. And hydrogen in the foreground. Belgian bus manufacturer Van Hool brought to Busworld Europe 2019 exhibition no less than three new products: the first hydrogen-powered BRT bu...

Carbon-free vehicles only. In 2039 Daimler Trucks & Buses will be selling only battery-electric and hydrogen powered buses and trucks, at least in the main markets of Europe, North America and Japan. In the same regions, battery-electric commercial vehicles will be in serial production by 2022. ...

The domestic manufacturer Van Hool, based in Belgium, is displaying at Busworld 2019 an hydrogen BRT bus and an electric coach for US market, plus a new variant of the EX coach that features a lenght of 10.5 meter (the shorter in the gamma, in the picture at the bottom of the article). Van Hool, new...