FPT leads Venice waterbus hybrid retrofit mission

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The waterbuses running along Venice’s iconic waterways are looking at a hybrid future, thanks to an FPT-led mission to overhaul their power systems.

A pilot boat operated by the public transport body AVM’s transport arm Actv is being rolled out as the first step in a modernisation plan for its lagoon fleet, which serves the iconic Venetian canals, ‘a major part of the city’s DNA’, it says.

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