2023 Highlights

Agenda and Speakers

ZEB 2025 is being organised by ERM in partnership with Busworld Foundation. Thanks to this partnership, the ZEB Conference will be held at Busworld Europe in October 2025. This will bring considerable mutual benefits to both events: the conferences and the exhibition. Among other things, this collaboration will increase the attractiveness of the events towards the targeted audience. All ZEB attendees will have free entrance to the Busworld Europe 2025 exhibition.

The ZEB 2025 programme is designed to give bus and coach operators, public transport authorities, and local policy makers a complete overview of the considerations for deploying zero emissions fleets at scale. Building on the feedback from ZEB 2023, ZEB 2025 will offer more in-depth technical content than ever before.

ZEB 2025 will complement the plenary sessions with interactive breakout sessions and exclusive ZEB tours in the exhibition. Those breakout sessions are expected to facilitate more technical discussions and address key questions about the opportunities and challenges associated with battery and fuel cell buses while the dedicated ZEB tours in Busworld Exhibition will illustrate what has been discussed.

ZEB 2025 Sessions

Tuesday 7th October 2025

  • Decarbonizing long haul & interurban routes: status on the energy transition in operations >300km
  • Status in the development of Software for Smart Energy (& charging) Management Systems : keeping the electricity bill under control

Wednesday 8th October 2025

  • Shaping the Future: Zero Emission Bus Market Trends and Policy Support
  • Optimising Zero Emission Bus Operations: Leveraging Telematics and AI
  • Evolution of CAPEX and OPEX for Zero Emission Buses: Outlook and strategies
  • Driving the Future: Real-World Zero Emission Bus Performance and the Potential for Hydrogen Buses in Europe – Insights and Q&A

Thursday 9th October 2025

  • Delivering Reliable Hydrogen Refueling: A Handbook from Planning to Operation
  • Charging Ahead: Exploring Opportunity and Fixed Charging Infrastructure for Electric Buses
  • Navigating Battery Degradation, Safety, and End-of-Life Management
  • Servicing and Maintaining Zero Emission Bus Fleets: OEM Aftersales and Mixed Fleet Management
  • Potential added values of photovoltaic cells on buses
  • Overcoming Challenges and Unlocking Innovations: Strategies for Scaling Up the Deployment of Zero Emission Buses

Please note agenda content is subject to change

Below the expected key topics to be tackled during ZEB 2025

Grid challenges - capacity
and procurement
Depot energy
management
Opportunity
charging
BEB & FCB performance
and drivetrain development
Business models to meet
increasingly CAPEX-
intensive operations
Maintaining ZEB fleets
& vehicle aftersales
Battery management -
degradation, safety, and
end of life
Evolution of OPEX for FCBs:
Outlook and strategies to
reduce the cost of hydrogen
HRS implementation:
design, ownership and
time to market
HRS operations:
protocols, maintenance and
aftersales
Optimising operations through
technology and telematics -
scheduling, SOC and data management