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The fleet of DPP (Dopravní podnik hlavního města Prahy), manager of the public transport network in Prague, is being renewed, again with electrically driven vehicles. DPP has in fact signed an eight-year contract with Skoda for the purchase of 40 new trams, model 52 T with an option for a furth…

Electric buses are becoming widespread in cities around the world. What about Tesla hitting the market with an electric bus model? Let’s start from the end: in November 2023 a Tesla fan page account published on its Facebook page the picture of what can’t be defined other than Tesla Bus….

Mercedes eCitaro. Behind this name lies the first battery-electric bus ever developed by the Daimler Group, built on the basis of the best-seller urban bus range launched in 1997. The Citaro was the first city bus in the world to meet the Euro VI emissions standard in 2012. In November 2019 Daimler …

Jean-Christophe Combe has been appointed Director of Marketing, Innovation, Sustainable Development and Engagement at Keolis. He will take up his post on February 1, 2024.  Jean-Christophe Combe is a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). He began his career …

The German bus and coach market grew 12.5% in 2023 according to figures by the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) reported by German trade media omnibus.news. 2023 has been a booming year for the Italian market where after the 2,351 number plates registered during 2022, registrations of buses o…

The Council and the European Parliament’s negotiators announce that today they reached “a provisional political agreement on CO2 emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs). The proposed amendment introduces a 100% zero-emission target for urban buses by 2035, while s…

Mercedes eCitaro. Behind this name lies the first battery-electric bus ever developed by the Daimler Group, built on the basis of the best-seller urban bus range launched in 1997. The Citaro was the first city bus in the world to meet the Euro VI emissions standard in 2012. In November 2019 Daimler …

Blue Bird has received the single largest order of electric school buses from a school district in its history. Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) ordered 180 electric, zero-emission school buses through their local Blue Bird dealer, A-Z Bus Sales, Inc. LAUSD anticipates delivery of the fir…

Iveco Bus has won its largest electric bus contract in Italy to date for the supply of 411 battery electric vehicles to the capital’s public transport operator ATAC. The manufacturer has also won 153 e-buses in Milan and 225 in Turin. The contract, signed today 17th January 2024, is worth more…

The Go-Ahead Group has joined partners in Oxford to launch one of the UK’s biggest fleets of electric buses. A £82.5 million project will deliver 159 battery buses onto the streets of Oxford – the first of which have already gone into service, Go-Ahead states. Go-Ahead had just been celebrating…

282 zero emission buses today in operation in Belgium, 40% coming from MAN’s factories (but also Van Hool is in good position with 54 units running). And 292 are set to be introduced in 2024 and 2025 based on contract already signed: the main part of these will be covered by Iveco Bus (contrac…

BYD Mexico delivered the first batch of 20 15-meter electric buses to Mexico City Metrobús. This supply involves a total of 55 pure electric buses, marking the largest electric bus fleet delivered in a single shipment in Mexico thus far, as the Chinese manufacturer states. LATAM is a fast moving mar…

Solaris has signed a contract with German operator Ruhrbahn GmbH to supply 19 fuel cell buses to Essen. The vehicles will be equipped with hydrogen fuel cells that generate electricity on board, and advanced ADAS safety systems. The innovative vehicles ar…

The German operator Rheinbahn Düsseldorf has ordered 10 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses. The manufacturer will deliver the vehicles to Düsseldorf in 2025, according to plans. The city has set itself the goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2035. Over the past few months alone, Solaris has landed…

Ballard Power Systems announced the signing of a new Long-Term Supply Agreement with NFI Group (under whose umbrella lie New Flyer, Alexander Dennis and others). “The agreement marks a new phase in the established partnership between Ballard and NFI, focused on deployment-level volumes of fuel…

Only 4 percent of all emission-free vehicles in 2044 are estimated to be fuel cell powered, according to IDTechEx’s latest report on “Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles 2024-2044“. The consulting company “forecasts a low penetration of fuel cell city buses, restricted to a limited n…

The San Mateo County Transit District Board of Directors approved the purchase of up to 108 hydrogen fuel cell buses, moving SamTrans closer to its Emission Zero goal of entirely transitioning its fleet away from diesel by 2034.  When the fuel cell buses enter revenue service within t…

Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr has just received the first Mercedes‑Benz eCitaro articulated buses from series production with a fuel cell as a range extender. The bus is said to have a range of up to 400 kilometers. It’ll be in use in urban traffic throughout the cities of Mannheim and Heidelberg …

Ekoenergetyka has established a partnership with GodEnergi to distribute and service its products, expanding its footprint in the Nordic region. GodEnergi, which has more than 14 years of experience with electric vehicle infrastructure in the Nordics, particularly in Denmark, will lease, sell, insta…

California-based charging solutions manufacturer ChargePoint announced the intention to cut its global workforce by about 12%, as part of “a strategic reorganization designed to improve financial performance and position itself for long-term, sustainable growth”, as stated in an official note. Charg…

First Bus is entering a collaboration with the UK’s largest broadband network provider, Openreach, granting them access to its rapid Electric Vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure at bus depots nationwide.  First Bus has the ambition of reaching a zero-emission bus fleet by 2035.  Openreach…

Siemens has completed the acquisition of Heliox, a technology leader in DC fast charging solutions, serving eBus and eTruck fleets and passenger vehicles. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Heliox employs approximately 330 people. A first agreement between the two companies was signed in August 2023….

Former Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess will join The Mobility House as the new Executive Chairman of the Board. In 2024, the company, in collaboration with Mobilize, a brand of the Renault Group, will launch the first commercial V2G offering in the European market. Herbert Diess joins The Mobilit…

MAN and ABB E-mobility announced an exclusive cooperation mainly focused on megawatt charging systems for electric trucks, although the agreement generally deals with technical cooperation between the two companies and is aimed to involve also long-distance passenger transport. The cooperation is in…

Bridgestone and Webfleet selected battery diagnostics leader volytica diagnostics as one of the 12 partners for the launch of their new platform unifying energy and mobility service providers. The goal is to enable providers from both industries to collaborate and connect and ultimately accelerate e…

Charge management systems provider CarMedialab has won the tender from TMB Barcelona to implement its MOBILEcharge technology on the entire operator’s electric bus fleet. Over 200 charging stations will be connected and integrated with the operational systems and the energy supply thanks to Ca…

SAE Level-4 automated driving software platform provider Adastec has entered a partnership with commercial vehicles provider Vicinity Motor, based in North America. Outcome of the cooperation is the introduction on the market of the Vicinity Autonomous Lightning EV, a medium-duty, fully electrified,…

The performance and safety evaluation of electric vehicle (EV) batteries is a multifaceted process that extends beyond reliance on a single key performance indicator. Instances of electric buses breakdowns or fires typically stem from a culmination of factors rather than a singular event.

Optibus, an artificial intelligence operating system for public transportation, has been chosen by SONDA S.A., a contractor of the Directorio de Transporte Público Metropolitano (DTPM) of Santiago, as the official planning, scheduling, and EV management software for all buses across the city, with t…

E-bus telematics services provider Saga Tenix announces it has secured 10 million NOK (around 855,000 euros) in funding from Newday to further hone their technology for electric buses. Saga Tenix is a provider of electric bus telematics services (it has for instance delivered the IT solutions to Keo…