The Lion Electric Company has received a conditional purchase order for 200 fully electric Lion-C school buses for use in Southern Ontario.

Switch Mobility will supply, operate and maintain the 300 12m electric buses as part of a 12-year contract with BMTC.

Wrightbus will deliver 80 battery-electric and 20 fuel-cell electric double deckers to Northern Ireland. The company has also received an order for 20 fuel-cell electric single deckers for Southeast England.

The simulation will create a "digital twin" or virtual counterpart which will work in parallel with the actual manufacturing process, allowing the company to identify and resolve potential problems in the real production line.

The U.S. government passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, committing an additional USD39bn to decarbonising public transit and USD7.5bn to building charging infrastructure.

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) has been awarded a USD6 million grant by the California Energy Commission to install one of the largest EV fleet charging systems in the country.

Recipients of the federal research funding include PACCAR, Volvo Group North America, Daimler Trucks North America, Ford, and General Motors.

Public transport service provider, Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST)1 of Mumbai, has released a tender for some 1900 new electric buses.

The city of Sydney will receive funding from the federal government to facilitate the deployment of 40 electric vehicles across the city.

Borgwarner has announced it is the recipient of a USD225,000 grant to support a USD11.2 million investment at the firms’ facility in Cadillac, Michigan.

The money will be invested in a joint project with Advanced Electric Machines to develop hydrogen-based range extenders for medium- to heavy-duty commercial electric vehicles.

VWCO has won a new federal tender for the Caminho da Escola Program to provide buses to schools across the country, involving 2,500 units featuring the Volksbus 15,190 ODR - ORE3 chassis.