When it opens, it will be capable of charging twenty-five medium- and heavy-duty trucks simultaneously at up to 240 kilowatts each, or six trucks at 1.2 megawatts.

OC Transpo, the public transport agency for the Canadian capital of Ottawa, has ordered 124 ‘Xcelsior Charge NG’ 40-foot buses.

The order, valued at around EUR50m, is for 57 ‘Lion’s City 12 E’ buses, powered by pure electric drivelines, and 27 ‘Lion’s City 18’ artics with MAN’s ‘EfficientHybrid’ technology.

Wrightbus says it has worked for two years on a 6x2 chassis which can cope with fixed axle and steering axle configurations and can allow for extra battery packs without reducing passenger capacity.

“Cargo Box” bodies, installed on a light commercial vehicle chassis powered by a battery electric driveline, are now being built in series in a dedicated “body shop” in the Atessa plant.

New Flyer’s ‘Xcelsior Charge FC’ 40-foot transit bus can now be ordered with four additional storage tanks, adding an extra 17.5 kilograms of hydrogen fuel capacity.

From MAN, the Roads & Transport Authority has ordered 400 12-metre buses, whereas from Volvo, it has ordered 76 double deckers which will be bodied by Gemilang.

92 ‘Xcelsior’ 35-foot hybrid buses and 40 ‘Xcelsior Charge NG’ 40-foot buses will enter operation in Suffolk County in the state of New York.

The front of the vehicle has been redesigned, featuring a new “Sky View” windscreen that eliminates the cab header panel and replaces it with glass.

Last year, Britain was the largest market for electric buses in Europe, a position that it owes in large part to a small company in the Yorkshire town of Castleford. In 2013, Pelican was appointed as the official UK and Ireland importer for Chinese manufacturer Yutong and began selling its buses and coaches; in 2020, the first battery electric Yutong vehicles were deployed in Britain. In the last decade, 2,000 Yutong vehicles were sold through Pelican, of which over 800 are fully electric. For those familiar with Pelican solely as an importer of buses and coaches, the company’s announcement that it would introduce a medium-duty truck may have come as a surprise. In fact, as I learned on a recent trip to the company’s premises in the north of England, the decision to enter the electric truck market represents a return to Pelican’s roots as the oldest family-owned truck dealership still in operation in Britain.

The 270 ‘Urbino 18 electric’ artics were ordered by Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, the state-owned company which manages public transportation in the German capital.

She will replace Michael Hellman, who is leaving the company, in the role at Düsseldorf.