The company will provide European customers with its electric bus charging solutions. Dietrich Müller, previously Head of E-Systems at Daimler Buses has been appointed Managing Director of Daimler Buses Solutions.

Okan Baş, CEO of Karsan at UITP in Barcelona, Spain, announced the company had sold its 700th electric vehicle very recently and that now, with a presence in 20 countries, its goal in 2023 is to double its e-bus sales of 330 units in 2022.

Seating 62 passengers, these 10.8m long double-deckers are built on a BYD chassis and driveline.

To drive up consumer interest the company has been publishing many of its tests. The latest voyage saw the eActros travel from the Mercedes plant in Wörth, Germany, to Aksaray in Turkey. The 3,000km route was designed to test the vehicle’s safety systems, durability and performance.

T&BB visited the facility in early June to see what the Cummins subsidiary has done to expand its testing capabilities and refurbish its production facility. 

The ‘Thermo HV’, which is designed specifically for electric vehicles, accommodates an input voltage between 600 and 875 volts and delivers a variable heat output of up to 12 kW.

The first driver-supervised road tests are taking place in Israel with an ‘eCentro’ midibus supplied by Otokar.

Cumulative orders since March for BAESystems total 1,805 units for delivery taking place over the next two to three years.

The company had 4 vehicles on display including two electric buses,the 12m Citivolt and the NovoCiti Volt, Citiport CNG and the Big e prototype.

The 'RE2' electric ramp and the '028d' sliding door were presented by the Irizar subsidiary at the show in Barcelona earlier in June.

T&BB spoke to Lind, who is Senior Vice President and Head of Bus and Coach at Scania, at the UITP Global Public Transport Summit in Barcelona, Spain earlier this month.

The T&BB team attended UITP in Barcelona to bring you the latest news which included the debut of the first electric version of the 13m suburban Crossway intercity bus (Crossway Le Elec), and which was accompanied by a 9.5m electric urban midibus from the E-Way range.