Heliox takes part with charging standards for electric cars expanded to the electric buses in Europe There are to two major overhead bus charging standards at the moment – OppCharge and the Bus-Up system. At first, there was only a single system (buses and stations) in the particular cities, but when at some point two incompatible standards will appear in
Rotterdam, Netherlands turns towards electric buses in the general trend to stop purchases of diesel buses from 2025 and get rid of diesel by 2030. Rotterdam’s public transport operator Ret recently ordered 55 electric buses from VDL Bus & Coach. The fleet and charging infrastructure is expected to be ready by the end of 2019. With 55 electric
MAN announced the unveiling of its first all-electric distribution truck – the MAN eTGM, and first all-electric bus – the MAN Lion’s City E, at upcoming IAA Commercial Vehicles 2018 in September. The MAN Lion’s City E is a 12-meter electric bus with powertrains from 160 to 270 kW. We must say that the bus
Electrification of the German flagship suggests that soon there will be hundreds, if not thousands, of sales in Europe. Mercedes-Benz Citaro is one of the most popular buses in the world with more than 50,000 copies sold. Mercedes-Benz managed to sell 20 Citaro Electric buses to long-time customer Hamburger Hochbahn from Hamburg. By 2020, the company
