A group of Dutch university students from the city of Eindhoven has developed a way of storing a new alternative energy that could be cheaper to make, more practical and more sustainable than most alternative renewable fuels currently used.
The Berlin Transport Authority (BVG) and Hamburg’s Hochbahn are looking to join forces when it comes to purchasing electric buses. Larger orders could help lower the price per unit and could inspire more innovation.
With the new generation of the MAN Lion’s City, a completely new type of urban bus is being introduced into the inner city, says MAN. A plethora of technical innovations, both inside and out, have been combined with the new MAN bus design.
The Brussels public transport company MIVB/STIB has ordered is first seven fully electric buses. They will be built by the Polish busmanufacturer Solaris. The buses ordered are of the midibus type. By the end of next year the buses will be running on the cityline, the connection between uptown and downtown Brussels.
L.A. Metro, Southern California’s biggest transit agency, retired its last diesel bus six years ago. Now, the transportation leaders are working toward a bolder goal: buses that don’t pollute at all. It should lead to an emissionfree fleet by 2030, a move that will require buying more than 2,300 buses that run on electric batteries or another form of zero-emission power, such as hydrogen.