The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) has approved a contract for the purchase of ten fuel-cell electric buses, made by New Flyer of America. The purchase of the fuel cell buses is also designed to allow SEPTA to evaluate ...
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has ordered 9,250 Ford E-Transit electric delivery vans and 14,000 chargers. Charging stations will be installed at USPS locations, supplied by Blink Charging, Siemens and Rexel USA, with an investment of $260 million. ...
Nextbike, the bike-sharing provider acquired by Tier, is expanding its presence in Spain. The service’s launch in Palma de Mallorca just before the turn of the year was followed by launches in the Barcelona metropolitan region, Getxo and Mislata ...
The electric car-sharing service Ride Share Bulgaria has added 100 Dacia Spring to its fleet. According to an announcement on social media, the company, which operates under the name „Spark,“ now has 650 electric vehicles in its fleet. Spark, ...
German rail transport company Arriva will deploy more than 100 new electric buses in the eastern part of the Netherlands from the end of this year. Arriva has been awarded the Twente-ZHO tender for bus and rail services in ...
The South Korean city of Incheon, located near the capital Seoul, plans to introduce a total of 700 fuel-cell buses by the end of 2024. A total of 200 of these H2 buses are to be put into operation ...
In the German state of Hesse, Germany’s national rail services Deutsche Bahn (DB) has announced a major project with automated shuttles in Hesse, using electric vehicles from the Chinese manufacturer Nio. More than 100 on-demand vehicles will be in ...
In the west of Germany, the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, will be getting 20 hydrogen fuel cell buses in public transport services. The buses are to be fuelled by hydrogen produced by electrolysers from the regional utility company ...
Nikola and E.ON have signed a cooperation agreement with logistics provider Richter Group to decarbonise its heavy-duty truck fleet in Germany. As a first step, the logistics provider has ordered 20 Nikola Tre hydrogen-powered trucks. The H2 trucks are ...
Uber Freight, the ride-hailing app’s platform for shippers and carriers, wants to introduce electric trucks for the first time. They have announced a strategic cooperation with WattEV and CHEP to deploy electric trucks on select routes in Southern California. ...
Sixt and BYD bring their cooperation Down Under as the German company will add at least 500 BYD EVs to the rental car fleet in Australia over the next twelve months. Sixt runs one of the country’s largest electric ...
Stagecoach has launched a fleet of 27 electric buses in West Scotland this week. The Volvo BZL buses are the first of this type to operate in the UK. They will serve routes in Ayrshire and join other electric ...
Ride-hailing company Uber will introduce 25,000 electric cars in India over the next three years through its platform. A memorandum of understanding signed with Tata Motors envisages the phased delivery of 25,000 units of Tata’s Xpres-T EV electric car ...
Aberdeen City Council awarded a contract for a major fleet-wide hydrogen dual-fuel utility vehicle conversion to Ulemco. The contract initially covers 35 vehicles, which, once completed, will be the largest H2 fleet in the UK. This is not the ...
The municipal utility company Stadtwerke Aschaffenburg has ordered twelve hydrogen buses from the Polish manufacturer Solaris – ten Urbino 12 hydrogen solo buses and two articulated buses of the type Urbino 18 hydrogen. The latter two are a first ...
The English town of Warrington has confirmed plans to transition its entire bus fleet to electric. This affects 105 vehicles which the city will replace with e-buses after having secured the largest funding award from the Government’s 2011 ZEBRA ...
Volvo Trucks North America is increasing the number of electric heavy-duty trucks serving its North American assembly plants. Together with four haulage partners, a total of 15 battery-electric Volvo VNR Electric trucks now commute to serve supplier logistics. Specifically, ...
Deutsche Bahn has ordered 60 hydrogen buses for its bus division DB Regio Bus for the first time. The company signed a framework agreement with Portuguese manufacturer CaetanoBus for the buses of the type H2.City Gold, to be delivered ...
Iveco Bus landed a major contract for electric buses from Italy. After winning a tender, the manufacturer will deliver 120 E-Way electric city buses to public transport company Autoguidovie Group. Deliveries should begin in the second half of 2023. ...
Food delivery company US Foods is adding 30 electric trucks to its fleet this year. These will be used around the company’s distribution centre in La Mirada, California. US Foods has already taken delivery of its first electric truck, ...
No new cabs with internal combustion will be allowed to hit the road in Hamburg from 1 January 2025, Hamburg’s transport senator Anjes Tjarks announced. Hamburg is thus the first federal state in Germany to only allow new cabs ...
The German logistics provider Dachser plans to expand their emission-free delivery areas to at least ten more major European cities by 2025. Currently, the company already has delivery hubs with electric vehicles going to several major European cities, including ...
Electric bus maker Lion Electric has secured backup from Mitsubishi HC Capital Canada for its financing division LionCapital Solutions. They will help customers in the United States and Canada to finance Lion electric school buses and trucks. The Canadian ...
In Dubai, only electrified taxis will be on the road from 2027. This is the plan now adopted by the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai. Currently, 72 per cent of the 11,371 taxis in Dubai are hybrid ...
Sepur, a waste management company, is using 18 Renault Trucks electric refuse trucks in Paris. The 18 E-Tech D Wide are used by Sepur for the collection of household waste in the 13th arrondissement, where they make around 100 ...
BYD has received an order for 52 electric buses from public transport operator Transdev in Sweden. The order includes 44 15-metre electric buses and eight 12-metre buses for use in the province of Gästrikland on the east coast of ...
Volvo Trucks has delivered its first all-electric ready-mix concrete mixer. The Volvo FMX Electric goes to the building materials manufacturer Cemex, which uses it in a ready-mix concrete plant in Berlin-Spandau. The vehicle now delivered, based on a Volvo ...
In the Spanish capital, the public transport operator EMT Madrid has presented the first high-speed electric bus line. The line connects the districts of Valdebebas and Sanchinarro with the Ramón y Cajal Hospital over 31 kilometres and will be ...
The fleet of the international car rental agency Hertz includes a total of 48,344 Teslas. And that, even though it had reportedly ordered 100,000 Model 3 that were to be delivered by the end of last year. According to ...
British government-owned National Highways has acquired 307 zero-emission and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). 187 PHEVs have already arrived, with another 24 on the well and other electric cars from Kia and Hyundai on the way. The most modern is ...
The US manufacturer Endera will deliver up to 1,000 electric shuttles to over 300 fleet operators in California thanks to a state-wide purchasing contract. It includes options for even more shuttles over the five-year contract period. The customer is ...
Siemens Mobility has received another order for its battery trains. The Hessian public transport operator Hessische Landesbahn is procuring three two-car Mireo Plus B. The new battery trains will operate on the local lines ‘Oberwesterwaldbahn’ (OWB) and the ‘Unterwesterwaldbahn’ ...
The South Tyrol-based transport company Gruber Logistics will expand its fleet by 50 electric trucks within the next two years. In addition, the European logistics company plans to build its own charging infrastructure for its electric vehicles. For the ...
The Danish capital Copenhagen and the enclave of Frederiksberg, which is completely surrounded by Copenhagen urban area, have decided to completely electrify the last five bus routes by 2025. Now, only the public transport operator has to play along. ...
UK distribution company CitySprint, part of DPD Group, has announced the expansion of their EV fleet with the acquisition of 40 new electric vans from vehicle manufacturer Maxus. The new electric vans have been strategically deployed across the UK ...
British bus manufacturer Mellor has received an order from Sweden. Public transport operator Connect Bus orders 42 elecztic buses of the Sigma line, which Mellor debuted in 2021. The minibuses on order are headed for Gothenburg. Gothenburg is the ...
The Canadian city of Calgary is preparing to transition public transportation to zero emission. Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) and the city just announced investing $165 million towards purchasing 259 zero-emission buses by 2027. The new electric buses will replace ...
German public transport operator VAG Nuremberg has ordered 46 eCitaro from Mercedes-Benz. The 16 electric solo buses and 30 articulated models will gradually go into service this year, turning almost half of VAG’s fleet to zero-emission. Nuremberg’s public transit ...
The Austrian Post has put its 3,000th electric vehicle in service. This also marks the kick off for the “Green Vienna” initiative, as the postal service plans to deliver all letters and packages with zero emission in the Austrian ...
Fertilizer and salt producer K+S is testing, whether electric vehicles are cut out for work in its mines. According to the company, conditions there – such as uneven roads, large inclines and temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celsius ...