Thirty electric buses are now travelling roads across Hamburg after Hochbahn put the first production-ready electric bus into operation almost a year ago, a press release sai…
Fleet grows to 30 electrice vehicles - e-scooter pilot proving positive after 20,000 trips
Chamber of Commerce honours Effenberg bakery's exemplary mobility concept
The Effenberger Vollkornbäckerei in Hamburg has been awarded the Chamber of Commerce’s 2019 prize for exemplary and environment-friendly mobility based on its use of electric delive…
Zalando starts three-month test of electric vehicle deliveries
Zalando launched Wednesday (October 23, 2019) a three-month test phase of deliveries with 24 e-transporters by Mercedes, Nissan, Renault and a micro delivery vehicle by ARI Motors. The e-transporters sport Z…
Hamburg's electrically-run collective taxis boosting public transport
Hamburg’s on-demand shuttle service, Ioki, is one of the ten winners of the German Mobility Award 2019. A total of 270 companies, start-ups, research institutions and associations had entered the cont…
Driverless HEAT bus undergoes tests - goal of fully autonomous operations by 2021
Hamburg’s brand new HEAT shuttle buses were presented Wednesday (July 31, 2019) for tests on a route in HafenCity from August. Five metres in length, less than three tons in weight an…
Tests of VOI scooters underway in Berne and Poppenbüttel
Hamburger Hochbahn AG is testing 60 e-scooters in Berne and Poppenbüttel after earlier tests had been limited to downtown Hamburg. The scooters, by Sweden’s VOI, are yet another means of transport for use on the o…
215,000 passengers used e-shuttle taxis in west Hamburg - Billbrook to start in August
A total of 900,000 kilometres were driven without emissions and 170 tonnes of CO2 were saved during the first year of the new ioki taxi service in the Hamburg suburbs of Lurup and Osdorf, accor…
Parking goes digital with app, floor sensors and dashboard thanks to Wunder
The Hamburg-based Wunder Mobility is adding the Wunder Park solution for managing parking spaces to its offers after a recent study by Inrix found that drivers in German cities spend a…
IBA launches local sharing service with four e-cars in southwest Hamburg
IBA Hamburg GmbH and the S+K car dealership in Neu Wulmstorf have launched a car sharing project on the outskirts of Hamburg. Four electric cars, which can be booked per app, are now available…
Conference in Hamburg focuses on incentives for transforming transport
“The future is multimodal, post-fossil and public digital*,” according to Theo Jansen, Chair of the German Platform for Mobility Management (e.V.) during a recent conference on “Mobility Managem…
"Hive" gearing up for Germany-wide launch on campus
The e-scooter provider Hive launched a pilot project Tuesday (April 16, 201) on the Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) campus. The 3,000 employees and scientists there can now try out a total of 100-electrically powered scoo…
E-scooters "Made in Hamburg" soon in streets - Several companies ready to launch
The Hamburg-based Hive and E-Floater are gearing up to offer e-scooters as a sharing modelpending the Bundesrat’s approval on Friday (May 17, 2019) of an ordinance. The law, passed by the G…