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Merchants Fleet to buy 5,400 new BrightDrop EV410s

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Merchants Fleet, the US’ fastest growing fleet management company (FMC), has reserved 5,400 BrightDrop EV410s, the all-new, mid-size electric light commercial vehicle purpose-built for the delivery of goods and services over long ranges, as well as other service applications. Earlier post.)

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Frankfurt buys 13 Solaris hydrogen buses

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The Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses will be fitted with a range of Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) solutions that support the driver’s work, including the MirrorEye system in which cameras replace conventional side mirrors thus improving road visibility for the driver. Each bus will also be fitted with a Solaris High Power battery.

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IDTechEx: buying an autonomous electric car will feel more like buying a laptop than a car

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Source: IDTechEx What are the main concerns when buying a laptop? It boasts that its front radar/camera combination has a range of 200m and a field of view of 45˚. All electric cars are marketed based on the range their batteries can deliver, making it easy to compare. Semiconductor devices found on autonomous electric vehicles.

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SunLine Transit puts new long-range fuel-cell range extended electric bus into service

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With funding from the private sector, the Federal Transit Administration, and the California Energy Commission, SunLine Transit unveiled an electric bus with a fuel cell range extender to support a 250-300-mile daily route. SunLine Transit agency has been a leading innovator in the national transit industry.

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Prague buying 20 Solaris bi-articulated Trollino 24 electric trolleybuses

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The minimum range of the trolleybus, when running on traction batteries stipulated in the tender specification, amounts to 11 km. This is yet another trolleybus model in the Solaris range. The drive of the Trollino 24 will consist of two traction motors. The bi-articulated trolleybus is 24,700 mm in lnegth.

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Lightning eMotors repowers Van Hool TD925 double-deck coach; 640 kWh battery, 200+ miles range

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The elctric bus features a 640 kWh battery, the largest known to exist for a vehicle of its type, an estimated range of more than 200 miles, and a charge time of less than six hours with a 150 kW DC fast charger. The coach has a seating capacity of 70 people. —Kash Sethi, Chief Revenue Officer of Lightning eMotors.

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Austin’s Capital Metro to buy 26 Proterra electric buses, with option for 126 more

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The 40-foot Proterra ZX5 Max selected by Capital Metro features 675 kWh of energy storage to deliver up to 329 miles of drive range on a single charge—the most energy storage and longest drive range of any 40-foot electric bus available in the market today.