The ‘eyewatering’ USD480 million project involves demolishing the existing bus depot and building a new one 272 standard bus equivalent parking bays with charging access, three bus washing lanes, two chassis washing stations, an interior bus washing station, fifteen maintenance bays, rooftop bus parking and a three-story administrative building.

The repower application of an Optare Solo prototype has 280kW/h of battery capacity (DC charging only) and features a dual-motor solution from Advanced Electric Machines.

Volta Trucks stated that it is starting the year strongly with customer production orders filling the first 300 manufacturing slots of the battery-electric Volta Zero.

Forsee has signed a deal with battery cell manufacturer CALB to be supplied with battery cells which will be integrated into Forsee’s battery systems.

The companies agreed to test Nikola’s Class 8 battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell trucks at Allison’s 60,000-square-foot vehicle electrification and environmental test centre in Indianapolis, USA.

The move is a cost-cutting measure which will allow Proterra to concentrate its manufacturing activities at its two sites in South Carolina.

These right-hand drive chassis will be bodied by GML and delivered to customers in Malaysia for trial in Q1 2023.

100 electric trucks - which enter production in the first half of 2024 - will be added to DB Schenker’s fleet by 2026, according to the agreement between the two companies.

The order is for two low-entry models from the Citea range of battery-electric city buses - 60 units of the LE-122 and 133 units of the LE-135 - which will serve in Zaanstreek-Waterland.

Optimal EV is now offering a retrofit service to operators with diesle vehicles based on the Ford E-450 cutaway chassis; the work will be carried out at one of Fontaine Modification's post-production truck modification centres.

Lion Electric is to offer a lithium-ion battery pack, produced at its Mirabel facility in Quebec, with final certification of the product set to take place in Q1 2023 before going into series production.

Gillig's 40 ft electric bus received the highest-ever score for a battery electric bus tested at Altoona, Pennsylvania.