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Kinetic has officially opened its new purpose-built Preston bus depot in Melbourne, featuring the first overhead gantry-charged infrastructure for zero-emission buses in the state of Victoria. The facility was developed in partnership with the Victorian Department of Transport and Planning as part o…

Authored and sponsored by IFEMA FIAA trade fair strengthens its role as a strategic platform to anticipate the future of passenger road transport. Internationalisation, sustainability and digitalisation will shape FIAA’s 2026 agenda, taking place from 22 to 24 September at IFEMA MADRID. The next edi…

Sponsored by BUS2BUS “BUS2BUS 2026 – “Shaping the Future of Mobility Together”. This is the claim of upcoming edition of BUS2BUS, scheduled on April 15 and 16, 2026 in Berlin. The focus will be on concrete solutions, practical experience and strategic exchange, with the goal of bri…

Mobility Move returns to Berlin from 10 to 12 March 2026. The Estrel Berlin hotel hosted in 2025 around 1,500 participants, 150 speakers, and over 100 exhibitors, with more than 20 vehicles on display across 7,500 square meters of exhibition space. The event has grown from its origins as the “VDV El…

For more than a decade, autonomous buses have been “almost ready.” Demonstrations with safety drivers began around 2015, and ten years later, this is still largely what we see. The reason is not a lack of ambition – it is physics, safety, and economics. Autonomous buses on city streets a…

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Bucharest City Hall has announced the delivery of 22 new trolleybuses equipped with batteries, continuing the modernization of the public transport fleet operated by STB. According to Romania Insider, the vehicles will enter passenger service this spring on Line 86 after completing testing and accep…

Busworld Turkey will return to Istanbul from June 17 to 19, 2026 for its 11th edition, continuing its growth and confirming Turkey’s key role in the global bus and coach industry. The previous edition, in 2024, attracted 12,366 professional visitors from 96 countries; building on this strong foundat…

Hampton Roads Transit has expanded its OnDemand ridesharing service to Chesapeake and Hampton, while extending the existing program in Newport News. The expansion marks a further deployment of HRT’s app-based microtransit offering across the Hampton Roads region, adding two new service areas and pro…

Xavier Piechaczyk has received parliamentary approval to become the next Chief Executive Officer of RATP. On 28 January, the sustainable development committees of the Assemblée nationale and the Sénat approved President Emmanuel Macron’s nominee in a joint vote, with 58 out of 70 votes cast in favou…

The Mobility House North America has unveiled Cascade EV Aggregator, a vehicle-grid integration platform designed to aggregate electric vehicle charging and discharging assets into coordinated energy resources for utilities. Cascade EV Aggregator is presented as a utility-facing platform capable of …

RWTH Aachen University announces it has successfully completed the first prototype testing phase of the upBUS concept, a vehicle designed to operate both as an electric road bus and as an urban cable car cabin. The milestone was reached within the upBUS research project, which is developing a multim…

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Saint-Nazaire Agglomeration has inaugurated the entry into service of its first articulated electric buses, supplied by Iveco Bus under the HélYce+ electromobility project. On 28 January, the French coastal agglomeration officially marked the start of operations of 25 articulated battery-electric bu…

20 electric buses by BYD have been officially commissioned by Nahverkehrsbetriebe Birkenfeld to serve regional and urban public transport services in the Nationalparklandkreis. The new fleet was presented at the exhibition centre in Idar-Oberstein during a formal commissioning event attended by repr…

Arriva Netherlands will introduce 167 new electric buses—128 from Yutong and 39 from Irizar (the first ever awarded in the country) —into service in East Brabant from December 2026. The start of the new concession will see Arriva Netherlands take responsibility for bus services across several munici…

Electric bus adoption in public transport urban fleet is growing all over the world. It started in China, and it has taken a few years for other regions to start the transition. Battery-electric bus registrations in Europe (vehicles over 8 tons) reached 5,315 units in the first half of 202…

Porto’s public transport operator STCP has started operations with 20 new-generation electric buses supplied by CaetanoBus, as the manufacturer outlines in a press note. The buses were ordered in August 2025 and belong to the new platform developed in partnership with Chinese CRRC an presented…

Kinetic announces it has secured two long-term contracts in New Zealand’s Dunedin, that will see 37 new electric buses introduced from 2026, shifting around half of the city’s services to zero-emission operation. The Otago Regional Council (ORC) has awarded Kinetic, operating through its Go Bu…

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Victor Valley Transit Authority, in California, has introduced in mid-January 13 hydrogen buses (by New Flyer), an interim hydrogen fueling station and new agency branding during a public ceremony in California’s High Desert. The unveiling took place at a ribbon-cutting event attended by local, regi…

DB Regio subsidiary Weser-Ems-Bus has launched a hydrogen bus fleet in Friesland with six Caetano vehicles. The rollout fits Deutsche Bahn’s broader strategy to expand alternative drivetrains across its bus networks and increase the share of zero-emission operations. Friesland is a rural district (L…

Ten new hydrogen buses are set to enter service in Döbling district from 1 December, marking the first fully hydrogen-operated route in Vienna. Wiener Linien announces it is expanding its zero-emission bus offer with the deployment of ten CaetanoBus H2.City Gold vehicles on Line 39A, following the i…

In the first half of 2025, a total of 279 hydrogen buses were registered in Europe, a 426% growth on the 53 registered in January – June of last year. 2024 ended with a record figure of 378 H2 buses registered… this year we are already at 74% to achieve the same volume. However, despite promising po…

Isuzu Motors will debut its next-generation fuel cell bus, the ERGA FCV, at the Japan Mobility Show 2025 in Tokyo (starting 30 October). The vehicle, developed jointly with Toyota Motor Corporation, will be exhibited as part of the Tokyo Future Tour 2035 program — one of the show’s main highlights. …

Isuzu and Toyota will jointly develop a fuel cell bus, with production scheduled to start in FY2026 at J-Bus’s Utsunomiya plant. It’s Toyota sharing this information in a recent press note. The model will be based on the flat-floor battery-electric bus platform designed by Isuzu and manufactur…

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Sponsored by UITP Summit As the UITP Global Summit 2026 prepares to take place in Dubai on 21-23 April, questions around governance, decarbonisation, funding models, digitalisation and the evolving passenger experience are shaping the agenda of the global public transport sector. The choice of Dubai…

From growth and capacity expansion to diversification, electrification and the arrival of new competitors from Asia, Altas Auto enters 2026 with several strategic fronts open at once. After a stronger 2025 — supported by its core Mercedes and MAN conversion business and new deliveries of imported bu…

During Busworld Europe 2025, BorgWarner outlined the structure and industrial rationale behind its current and next-generation battery offering. Martin Busche, Vice President Battery R&D, Product Strategy and Program Management, described a family of LFP and NMC battery packs built on shared har…

With more than 7,000 e-buses in operation or on order across 26 countries, BYD continues to consolidate its position in Europe’s electric bus market. In 2025 the company celebrated a major milestone, delivering its 5,000th eBus in Europe to Danish operator Umove. Henry Zhang, Managing Director of th…

At Busworld Europe 2025, ABB Traction presented its latest solutions for heavy-duty electric buses. In the spotlight there were the HES580 three-level inverter and the AMXE250S central motor, as well as high-performance LTO batteries. In this interview, Andreas Z’Graggen, Global Head of Energy Stora…

Horse Powertrain was among the leading companies at Busworld Europe in Brussels, where it unveiled its new range of REEV (Range Extended Electric Vehicle) powertrain systems — electric engines with an integrated generator that extends driving range up to 450 km. Among the main models showcased were …

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Connected Energy announces it will invest £2 million in a new second-life EV battery testing facility in the UK, combining a 5MWh BESS with multi-manufacturer battery integration and scheduled to open by mid-2026. Connected Energy is developing what it describes as the UK’s most advanced second-life…

One of Austria’s largest charging depots for electric buses has been commissioned in Wolfurt, Vorarlberg, using Kempower’s distributed charging technology. A high-capacity electric bus charging hub built with Kempower systems has entered operation in Wolfurt, supporting the electrification of public…

Irizar e-mobility, EMT Madrid and Iberdrola have launched a pilot project to reuse electric bus batteries in a stationary energy storage system at the EMT operations centre in Fuencarral. The project focuses on extending the useful life of batteries that have reached the end of their first life by r…

Berlin’s public transport operator Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) has inaugurated the charging infrastructure of a new electric bus depot in the Treptow district. The topping-out ceremony took place at the site near the Minna-Todenhagen Bridge, where a fully electric depot is under construction on …

Munich Airport has expanded its zero-emission ground transport capabilities with a new electric bus depot, SBRS GmbH reports on LinkedIn. The project, delivered in partnership with AeroGround, includes 50 charging stations, each with a capacity of 120 kW, and infrastructure for 37 zero-emission buse…

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Hübner announces it has further developed its Double Ramp system into the new Comfort Double Ramp, combining electric and manual operation to support reliable bus access. With the Comfort Double Ramp, Hübner has introduced a hybrid bus access solution that integrates an electric ramp and a manual fo…

Authored and sponsored by JOST JOST, a world-leading producer and supplier of safety-critical systems for the commercial vehicle industry, continues to drive innovation in the bus sector with the next generation of its BusLink articulation system. Building on proven reliability, the new BusLink focu…

The mobility transition is already a reality: cities and regions worldwide are adopting electric drive systems to make public transport emission-free, efficient and future-proof. Traction equipment plays a central role in this process, serving not only as the technical backbone but also as a strateg…

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The U.S. Federal Transit Administration has announced on November 20th a nationwide investment package totaling $2 billion for 165 transit projects across 45 states and Washington, D.C. It is one of the most extensive funding rounds of recent years, designed to support fleet renewals, depot upgrades…

In Italy, recent investments reflect a significant interest towards methane-powered buses as part of the country’s strategy to modernize its public transport fleet with low-emission options. With initiatives from both the national procurement body Consip and the Puglia Region, both released during t…

Bologna’s municipal public transport operator TPER has inaugurated its new LNG (liquefied natural gas), bioLNG and L-CNG (compressed natural gas derived from liquid methane) distribution station inside the company depot in via Ferrarese, Bologna. The plant, now operational, will guarantee the …

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Helsinki’s public transport authority HSL has commissioned INIT to supply a container-based on-board computer system for its multimodal public transport fleet in Finnish capital region. The Helsinki Regional Transport Authority will deploy a new on-board system supplied by INIT across approxim…

Born in San Francisco and specialized in artificial intelligence and spatial analytics, Hayden AI works with public transport operators and cities to make streets safer and public transit more efficient. How? Thanks (also) to AI. The company has developed a Vision AI platform that uses cameras mount…

The public transport agency responsible for the metropolitan area of Milan and the provinces of Monza and Brianza, Lodi, and Pavia, in Italy, has chosen Optibus to strengthen its service planning and scenario analysis capabilities. The agreement introduces Optibus’ Strategic Planning platform into t…

Intelligent transportation and fare collection systems supplier INIT has started work on MARTA’s Better Breeze fare collection system in the US (Atlanta). The implementation will proceed in phases through spring 2026 The project represents a comprehensive overhaul of the existing Breeze infrastructu…

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Kiira Motors Corporation has concluded a 1,771-kilometre electric coach run across Tanzania along its journey on the Made in Uganda Grand Trans-Africa Electric Expedition, which is offering the company a detailed set of observations on long-distance electric coach operation in East African condition…

At Busworld Europe 2025, Higer marked a new step in its European strategy with the premiere of three electric coaches from the New V Series: the V12E, V12E Pro, and V13E. The three models, all developed with European standards in mind, are supported by Higer’s aftersales and service network on the c…

MAN Truck & Bus raised the curtain on the Lion’s Coach 14 E today in Brussels during Busworld. It’s the first fully electric coach from a major European manufacturer, first presented in May in Ankara but now visible in its definitive design. Building on the success of the Lion’s City E fam…

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The new section of Metrotranvia 7 in Milan, operated by ATM Milano, connecting the Adriano district to the M1 underground station in Precotto and the M5 underground station in Bicocca, was officially opened in mid October 2025 in the presence of the Mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, the Councillor for …

Škoda Group announces it has won two tenders to supply 75 new trolleybuses to Sofia, Bulgaria, under contracts valued at €56.19 million. The awards further consolidate Škoda Group’s position in the Bulgarian public transport market, where the manufacturer has recently secured major rail contracts al…

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