Irizars i2e 100% electric powered bus, which it claims guarantees an operating range of between 12 and 16 hours (up to 240km), has been designed to achieve the greatest energy efficiency, the lowest consumption and optimum end of life management. It says the bus has a very low carbon footprint of 8.45g CO2 eq./km.p (per kilometre and passenger). It means it saves around 800 tonnes of CO2 during its entire service life, compared to a conventional diesel bus.
Electrovaya’s fully owned subsidiary Litarion GmbH signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a leading European battery OEM which designs and integrates battery systems for e-mobility applications especially Electric buses. Electrovaya will provide its cells to the OEM, which will assemble the cells into electric bus batteries.
In line with the development of the all-electric version of its GX 337, Heuliez Bus and the French company Forsee Power have signed a deal to develop and develop together an energy storage system.
Busworld Europe, hitherto always staged in Kortrijk, is to move to a new home at the Brussels Expo in 2019. The bi-annual has been staged at the Kortrijk Xpo for 24 editions or 45 years. The move is required as the exhibition has outgrown the current site.
At its TecDay event in Stuttgart, Daimler said it will invest more than €7 billion (US$7.9 billion) in green technologies in the next two years alone. Shortly, smart will be the only automaker worldwide to offer its entire model range both powered by internal combustion engines or operating on battery power. Mercedes-Benz will put the first fuel-cell-powered vehicle with plug-in technology into series production: the GLC F-CELL. In addition, the company is developing a dedicated vehicle architecture for battery-electric motor cars.