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Electric buses ‘made in Uganda’. The State owned nascent car manufacturer Kiira Motors Corporation is launching a concept of battery-electric bus, named Kayoola EVS. Two units have been running around the capital city Kampala last week. The news is reported on softpower.ug. The prototype...

Tower Transit orders thirty-seven electric buses from Optare for London. They’ll be incorporating ZF’s electric portal axle AxTrax AVE. While the central electric motor from Friedrichshafen is almost ready for series production, the well-known AxTrax gets a new commission. London will witness ...

No bids were submitted to ATAC’s tender for hydrogen buses in Rome. The call for tender for five vehicles was issued in February in the framework of the European project 3eMotion. The news of the unsuccessful tender was reported on local media RomaToday and on the Italian specialized media AUT...

ZF CeTrax, it’s time for series production. The central electric motore made in Friedrichshafen will join the well know AxTrax electric axle in order to widen the portfolio of zero emission drivetrains developed for commercial vehicles. Starting in the third quarter of 2020, ZF electric centra...

New commercial success for Ebusco in Germany. The Dutch manufacturer will deliver 13 electric buses Ebusco 2.2 to Frankfurt with the Transdev Group in the end of 2020. The model is already working in several German cities (amongst others in Munich, Wartburg and on the island Borkum) and in Dutch cit...

Around Nuremberg’s streets, in Germany, it is operating since the beginning of this year the first electric articulated bus equipped with a Konvekta CO2 heat pump, with the livery of VAG public transport company. The system made by Konvekta was launched in 2018. At the beginning the CO2 heat p...

The Coronavirus outbreak is having a massive impact on public transport systems. Users have plummeted, and so are ticket revenues. And public transport will have to cope over a long period of time with a decrease in passenger capacity due to social distancing measures, and users disaffection due to ...

MAZ adds an electric bus to its portfolio. The Belarusian manufacturer (complete name: Minsk Automobile Plant) unveiled a few days ago the MAZ 303E10, which also stands out for being the second vehicle equipped with the brand new electric central motor CeTrax by ZF (the first is the Solaris Urbino 1...

IAA Commercial Vehicles 2020 cancelled. It was in the air, now (as of 6 May) it’s official. The pandemic of Covid19 takes away the IAA Hanover. The exhibition scheduled at the Hannover Fair from 24 to 30 September has been cancelled and re-scheduled, confirming the biennial frequency, to 2022....

Following the order for 20 vehicles from Solaris, Connexxion put on the road its first fuel cell bus for the concession Hoeksche Waard-Goeree Overflakkee. And, surprise! It carries VDL Bus & Coach‘s logo. The Dutch manufacturer, Connexxion points out, will deliver a batch of four hydrogen ...