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Electric road project in Sweden, Solaris to supply the test vehicle

Solaris is ‘lending’ a trolleybus for a Swedish programme on electric roads in the city of Lund. The ‘EVolution Road’ project concerns creating an electric road which automatically detects and charges electric vehicles, both while driving as well as at a standstill, for instance when par...

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The bus industry’s smartphone moment

On 18 March 1895, at 6:25 in the morning, the world’s first motor bus line opened between Siegen, Netphen and Deuz. The vehicle was a Benz Landauer. It had eight seats, a one-cylinder engine of five horsepower, and fifteen kilometres of bad road ahead of it. On the steepest hill, the passengers had ...

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Electric road project in Sweden, Solaris to supply the test vehicle

Solaris is ‘lending’ a trolleybus for a Swedish programme on electric roads in the city of Lund. The ‘EVolution Road’ project concerns creating an electric road which automatically detects and charges electric vehicles, both while driving as well as at a standstill, for instance when par...