A total of 122 electric articulated and single buses are set to be delivered to Gothenburg, Malmö, and Hässleholm in southern Sweden by 2022/2023. The public transport operator has ordered 84 electric buses to start operating in Gothenburg in the summer of 2022/2023, 29 e-buses are being delivered to Malmö and 9 will be delivered to Hässleholm at the end…
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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…
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…