electric buses

Technology

'We want to make the bus cool': Inside Arrival, the $13bn British electric vehicle start-up

Arrival’s president and chief strategy officer Avinash Rugoobur sits down with BusinessGreen to expand on the newly listed company's ambitious plans and its pioneering new approach to EV production

clock 26 March 2021 • 12 min read

Automotive

Arrival teams up with First Bus to trial battery-electric buses on UK roads

Partnership will see Arrival's electric buses trialled on UK roads for the first time later this year

clock 23 February 2021 • 2 min read

Automotive

BYD and ADL to expand UK electric bus manufacturing operations

Firms announce plans to transfer assembly of chassis of electric buses from China to UK, citing need to meet growing demand of zero emission buses

clock 14 January 2021 • 3 min read

Automotive

Coventry and Oxford vie for £50m to help deliver all-electric bus city vision

Up to 500 buses could be replaced with all-electric versions as part of government competition

clock 07 January 2021 • 2 min read

Transport

Arrival to list on New York stock exchange amid surging investor interest in EVs

The move will provide around half a billion pounds in cash proceeds for the EV innovator, helping fund mass production at its microfactories planned to begin next year

clock 20 November 2020 • 2 min read

Infrastructure

Charged up: Zenobe Energy secures £150m to support battery and EV roll out

Funding boost gives company access to around £450m to accelerate deployment of energy storage and EV infrastructure

clock 16 November 2020 • 2 min read

Transport

All aboard the UK's first all-electric bus route with transport start-up Ember

Two all-electric coaches are to run from next month between Dundee and Edinburgh, delivering the UK's first zero emission intercity coach route

clock 21 September 2020 • 2 min read

Automotive

Green bus boost: National Express maps route to zero-emission bus fleet by 2030

Take the National Express, when the Earth's in a mess? Transport group pledges to become UK's first zero emission bus and coach firm by 2035

clock 27 February 2020 • 3 min read

Automotive

Boris Johnson unveils £5bn boost for bus and cycle funding

New five year funding package to deliver at least 4,000 zero emission buses and a series of 'Mini Holland' cycle infrastructure plans

clock 11 February 2020 • 3 min read

Automotive

Could an electric bus save COP26?

This week's COP26 launch may have got off to a tempestuous start, but all the elements are there for a genuinely transformative and historic Summit, the Prime Minister just needs to articulate the net zero narrative

clock 07 February 2020 • 6 min read