Timișoara, a major city in western Romania, is to add 44 new electric buses to its public transport fleet next year. The Ministry of Development completed the tender for the electric buses a month ago. Worth over RON 136 million plus TVA value added tax, the contract is mostly financed by European funds. Each new…
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Chariot electric bus and an electric heave duty truck are wirelessly charged from ElectReon’s electric road on the Swedish island of Gotland. ElectReon implanted 1.2-metre-long coils fist-deep into a 4.1km road linking Visby airport and town center on Gotland Island. The project then equipped a Chariot electric bus with three underfloor receivers picking up charge…
The city of Barcelona has opened its first all-electric high-capacity mass transport route with 23+,18m articulated e-buses. The city recently also put into operation 46 light hybrid buses. Earlier this year Barcelona public transport authority TMB opened a tender for 210 green buses. Of them, 78 will be electric: 29 articulated ones with pantographs for…
Public transport in Qatar is to go all-electric by 2030. The rollover will include public bus routes, state school buses and local Metro transport system buses in the capital Doha. The US-Qatar Business Council, which encourages US-Qatar trade, announced the transition. Initial plans will see a quarter of Qatar’s public transport going electric by the…
This summer 30 brand new Chariot-Higer electric buses will ply the streets of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia. Operated by Stolichen Elektrotransport, they will replace diesel buses in the city. Alongside the 15 e-buses already delivered by Chariot to Sofia, the new e-buses will further improve the city’s air quality. They produce no NOx, CO2, or particulate…