Dec 02

4 essential steps to electric bus procurement

Time is ticking away for bus operators. In most European countries, the aim is for transport to be zero-emission by 2030 with North America following closely. Have you got your e-fleet up and running yet? The C40 Fossil Fuel Free Streets Declaration includes a growing number of cities which commit... read more →
  • December 2, 2019
  • Blog
Oct 15

Smart Charging Electric Buses: The Ultimate Guide

What is smart charging? The easiest way to understand Smart Charging is to compare it to regular charging. With regular (non-smart) charging as soon as you plug in a vehicle into a charger it will start charging. In this scenario, the battery demands the maximum amount of power until fully... read more →
  • October 15, 2019
  • Blog
May 14
The DataHub. ViriCiti's own hardware to accompany their electric vehicle telematics software.

Aligning the coordinate systems of accelerometer and vehicle

A blog by Sebastian Liem and Erwin Poeze - ViriCiti Labs ViriCiti provides insights in electric, CNG, diesel, hybrid, and hydrogen vehicles, as well as their charging infrastructure. We can, therefore, provide full insight in energy management, maintenance, route operations, and flexible charging for mixed fleets. Currently, we are working... read more →
Jan 29
May 23

ViriCiti API Gateway

Evolved from the traditional monolithic approach, ViriCiti’s system consists of multiple services that run in containerized Docker environments, utilizing Kubernetes as container orchestrator. This architectural style, called Microservices, has been actively debated on in the past few years and consists of the idea of decomposing a system into a collection... read more →
May 07

ViriCiti and Fraunhofer announce collaboration to prolong battery life of electric buses and trucks

The battery life of electric vehicles still presents a financial challenge for the electrification of the transport sector. That is why the Fraunhofer institute for Transportation and Infrastructure IVI, expert in the field of Lithium-ion batteries, and real-time electric vehicle data specialist ViriCiti, have started a unique collaboration. This collaboration aims to prolong battery... read more →
Mar 16
Freek Dielissen, CEO of ViriCiti was on BNR Zakendoen to talk about the EV Fleet Analyzer.

ViriCiti on BNR to talk about the EV Fleet Analyzer

This week, we were invited by BNR radio to talk to the hosts of 'Zakendoen' (doing business) after we released the news about the EV Fleet Analyzer. The EV Fleet Analyzer is a planning tool for electric buses and trucks that predicts the precise energy consumption for any plotted route.... read more →
Mar 07
Electric bus driving a route for which ViriCiti has predecited the energy usage with its EV energy route planner.

First energy route planner for electric buses and trucks

ViriCiti and Simacan have finalized their collaboration project ‘EV Fleet Analyzer’. This online tool is the first to predict the energy consumption for electric vehicles based on road segmentation and vehicle data. This way, feasibility of deploying electric vehicles can be accurately predicted for routes that have never been driven before. EV Fleet... read more →
Jul 11

Our first Customer Success Film

From the beginning of electric transport in Europe, ViriCiti has been working with various partners that made the early electric transition. Four years ago, Schiphol became our first Dutch customer that deployed electric buses. After that, we worked together with small and large bus producers, public bus operators, commercial truck... read more →
Apr 10

ViriCiti goes Silicon Valley

Today we officially opened our new US-office in Palo Alto! Starting this week, our colleague Michael Coussement will be available for questions, all after-sales issues and on-site support and trainings. Five years ago this month, Michael started working with Transitions-Now. Passionate about e-mobility, he is ready to get started on... read more →