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"The recent Bundestag decision to cut funding for the purchase of buses with alternative drives in the Climate and Transformation Fund is causing significant uncertainty among all market participants. Just now, when the market ramp-up of e-buses is not yet complete and 88 percent of city buses are b...

1,400 participants, 90 exhibitors (vs the 78 companies exhibiting in 2022), 20 vehicles: these are the figures of Mobility Move, the first edition under new brand of VDV-backed e-bus expo until now known as ElekBu. It’ll be live in Berlin on 5-7 March. Please note: our just-released Sustainabl...

If the European Parliament and the European Commission prevail over the member states in the current trilogue negotiations, only zero-emission city buses will be allowed to be newly registered from 2030. The German VDV urges more reliable and constant funding from the federal level. “Small and...

VDV announces a rebranding of its electric bus conference ElekBu. From next year it’ll be named under the umbrella brand “Mobility move”. The VDV Electric Bus Conference and Trade Fair have been an integral part of the industry’s annual calendar of events for 15 years. Under ...

VDV pushes for a much stronger commitment of the federal government to the promotion of e-buses in order to achieve climate-protection goals. “We must make the remaining years until 2030 the decade of the e-bus, because the infrastructure projects for railways and light rail only take effect w...

Hamburg has been awarded the bid for hosting UITP Public Transport Summit in 2025 and 2027. In the meanwhile, the sector in on track for June 2023 Global Public Transport Summit to take place in Barcelona. “Hamburg has been chosen as the host city for the 2025 & 2027 editions of the&n...