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RATP has a fleet of 4,700 buses in Paris and is pursuing the target of converting the whole fleet to low and zero emission buses by 2025. In that year, two thirds of the fleet must be electrically powered, one third biogas powered. The effort realized by RATP with public transport authority Ile-de-F...

LFP battery industry must be grateful to Chinese electric bus market. While Western markets primarily use NMC formulas, in China LFP is the main technology. With China accounting for as many as 98 per cent of the electric buses in operation worldwide… the impact of this demand is huge. The top...

The Italian initiative Mobility Innovation Tour stops off in Cagliari, on 17th September, where the public transport network managed by CTM represents one of the most interesting case study in the national public transport sector. The conference will be part of the European Mobility Week 2019. The o...

The road is paved for the transition of Hamburger Hochbahn bus fleet to electric drive. The 20 Mercedes eCitaro and 10 Solaris Urbino 12 Electric are just the stepping stones for a plan that aims at the introduction to no less than 530 electric buses between 2021 and 2025, including both battery and...

New German contract for the Mercedes eCitaro. ÜSTRA, public transport provider in Hanover, concluded a framework agreement for 48 units of the fully electric Mercedes city bus. The first four already ordered eCitaro buses will be delivered this year already. All of the eCitaro models in this large o...

Zaragoza took delivery of 17 new Volvo hybrid buses. The vehicles have been incorporated into the Avanza fleet. The new buses bring the average age of the public transport fleet of the Spanish city to a reduction of 8 per cent, thus stating at 8.3 years. Further 18 hybrid buses will soon be introduc...

29 electric buses are due to operate in Barcelona following a call for tender that TMB is about to release. The procurement involves 23 articulated buses and 6 minibuses, all rigorously zero emission at the tailpipe. The Plan for the renewal of TMB bus fleet for the period 2019-21 contemplates an in...

More than 5,000 electric buses are due to be in operation in India in the short-medium term. At least, this is the intention of Indian government, that recently announced the implementation of electric bus fleets through the Twitter account of Amitabh Kant, the CEO of the government’s Niti Aayog thi...

15 double decker fuel cell buses will operate in Aberdeen (Scotland), one of the first cities in the world to introduce this category of vehicle. In fact, a new contract was signed this months, in the framework of a project that has Aberdeen City Council, Europea Union (FCH JU) and Scottish Governme...

Ballard Power Systems has recently launched the 8th generation of the fuel cell module FCmove. The new FCmove-HD is addressed to transit bus market and already adopted by Solaris Bus & Coach (CAF group) for the Urbino 12 hydrogen. The showcase of the new product was held during UITP Summit 2019 ...