Islamabad Orders Electric Buses From China
Higer itself provides very little information about the buses’ drive systems in the press release. A combination of a powerful motor and a “high-quality” battery is installed. The range is given as more than 250 kilometres. The vehicles themselves appear…
Tata Motors Delivers 921 Starbus EVs for Sustainable Mobility in Bengaluru
Tata Motors have delivered technologically-advanced Starbus EVs to Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) as part of a larger order. The 921 low-floor electric buses, developed under the Make in India initiative, are set to transform Bengaluru’s public transport. The indigenous…
Yadav, John Kerry Hold Talks on US-India Collaboration for Financing E-buses
Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav and US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry on Saturday discussed the US-India collaboration to establish a payment security mechanism to address current constraints in the expansion of e-bus…
China’s Electric Bus Revolution Glides On
On a rainy afternoon in Shenzhen, damp passengers jostle their way onto the megacity’s buses, the quiet foot soldiers of an electric revolution for coal-guzzling China’s public transport network. Shenzhen ditched diesel buses and went fully electric in 2017 —…
E-bus Sales in India will go up to 11-13% by FY25
ICRA points out that the government has sought to boost e-bus adoption through bid aggregation under tenders floated by Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL). Despite successful OEM participation in the initial tenders, CESL’s third tender faced limited participation due to…
China’s BYD to sell Midsize Electric Bus in Japan
China’s leading electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer BYD will start to sell a new model of midsize electric bus in Japan to meet the growing demand for green public transportation. The J7 midsize electric bus tailored for the Japanese market has…
Olectra Greentech eyes PM e-Bus programme’s tender for 10,000 buses
Olectra Greentech, a prominent player in the electric vehicle (EV) industry, is keen to participate in the Prime Minister’s e-Bus Programme, which is expected to float a tender for some 10,000 electric buses soon. In a recent interview with CNBC-TV18,…
IDEAS: Amtrak Introduces First Electric Vehicle Into National Network
The new electric bus will be able to complete the almost 200-mile round-trip on a single charge, with the new EV set to save ‘approximately 10,000 gallons of diesel fuel per year, cutting CO2 emissions by 109 tons annually’, according…
India Likely To Cancel Major Electric Bus Tender
The third tender for 4,675 electric buses for India, published in January 2023, is likely to be a flop. Apparently, there was not much interest from the industry – because of the financing model chosen in the tender. As reported…
Electric Bus NueGo Expands Services In South
Devendra Chawla, CEO, GreenCell Mobility said that these services mark the expansion of NueGo’s services in the south with the launch of their operations in Chennai-Pondicherry, Chennai-Tirupati and Chennai-Bengaluru. The brand is successfully operating its services across India, primarily on…
