The project’s explicit goal is to “reduce the overall time and cost of battery production by at least 20%, in addition to lowering the number of physical experiments required and reducing material costs.” This will ultimately increase the competitiveness of the European battery industry.  

Improving the eCitaro’s environmental footprint will further contribute to Daimler Buses' environmental and sustainability goals as well as improve its ESG score.

The money will serve two purposes: it will expand the production of cathode materials and battery cells in the gigafactory, and it will expand the capabilities of the adjacent recycling plant.

No financial details have been announced, but in the agreement, BASF will be responsible for the collection, packaging, transportation and entire recycling operation, mechanically processing the batteries into black mass** from which lithium, cobalt and nickel will be extracted and then reused in the manufacturing of new batteries.

The demonstrator, located at Michelin’s plant in the commune of Bassens, is tooled to produce butadiene, an organic compound of hydrogen and carbon, from ethanol derived from biomass.

Clean Bus Solutions, a JV established by Blue Bird and finance house, Generate Capital, will allow school districts to pay a set fee per month as a way of procuring electric buses; making electric school buses more affordable and available to U.S. school districts. The service also includes charging solutions, maintenance and fleet planning services.

Continental officially inaugurated its new multimillion-euro corporate headquarters on the Hans-Böckler-Allee campus, in Hanover, Germany on December 13, 2023. The campus consists of six buildings, housing over 2,400 employees, in both the Tires and ContiTech groups.

Currently, the multinational is retreading more than one million of its commercial vehicle tyres a year throughout its retread plants/subsidiaries worldwide. This all falls below the ContiLifeCycle* sustainable strategy, aiming to maximise tyre longevity for customers and improve environmental sustainability.

This will make it one of the largest such projects in France, producing enough energy to supply the average consumption of 17,500 people.

This involves implementation of comprehensive annual sales, maintenance and service contracts by dedicated Tata service teams.

The delivery is part of a mega order in May 2022 for 5,450 electric buses: with DTC taking 1,500 units.

The steel will be produced using SSAB’s ‘Hybrit’ technology, developed over the past seven years together with state-owned mining and energy companies, LKAB and Vattenfall AB.