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Network Rail and Bombardier Transportation have just completed testing Britain’s first battery-powered passenger train. The train was in regular passenger service in Essex up until mid-February 2015. The carriages are fitted with HUBER+SUHNER harnesses for power transmission.

27/03/2015

Cars, trucks, electric bicycles, electric boats – automotive cables from HUBER+SUHNER are already used in a variety of vehicles. And now they are also being used in electric motorcycles. Brammo, Lito Green Motion and other manufacturers rely on RADOX® automotive cables for the drive systems of their electric motorcycles.

12/03/2015

The cockatoo's natural inquisitiveness and powerful beak mean that it can easily damage cables in its native country of Australia. In collaboration with Walter Zoo in Gossau, Switzerland, HUBER+SUHNER has developed a solution to provide better protection from these intelligent birds.

27/02/2015

The government in Kuala Lumpur has added three new sections to the rail network for local mass transit in the MRT Malaysia project. New trains are also required for these sections. HUBER+SUHNER supplied suitable roof-top antennas in the form of the SENCITY® Rail MIMO.

18/02/2015

Over the next three years, HUBER+SUHNER will supply RADOX® cables for the series production of 54 carriages for new metro trains in a major Russian city. This is the first order for HUBER+SUHNER from the Russian railway market based on the new approval.

09/02/2015

Hitachi Rail Europe recognises HUBER+SUHNER’s contribution to the prestigious Intercity Express Programme (IEP), bringing new Class 800/801 trains to major UK rail routes.

28/01/2015

For decades, man has sought to discover what holds the world together at its innermost core. To discover the answers, more than 2,000 scientists use the powerful ISIS particle accelerator for fundamental and applied research every year. The system is continuously being expanded and renewed. HUBER+SUHNER has already supplied kilometres of power cable.

19/01/2015

“Formula Student” is a competition in which students from around the world compete using electric racing cars that they have built themselves. HUBER+SUHNER supports several universities by providing RADOX cables for their racing cars. In 2013, two of these teams took first place in different categories.

09/01/2015

The new “MMPX on Minibend L assembly” for use in the high-speed digital testing market is the first result of the collaboration between the two development departments of HUBER+SUHNER Astrolab and HUBER+SUHNER.

05/01/2015

As part of the SunCar project at ETH Zurich's Department of Mechanical Engineering and Process Engineering, students converted a Skoda Octavia estate from an ordinary car to an electric vehicle powered by solar energy. HUBER+SUHNER supported the project with RADOX ® cables.

03/12/2014