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The year 2023 has brought good news for public transport in Rome. ATAC S.pA. has signed a contract with CAF for the supply of 40 new trams, with an option for another 81. The contract, signed on 21 December 2023, includes the design, maintenance of the rolling stock for five years, and spare parts.&...

by Stefano Alfano; photo credits: R.Costa Rome is renewing its tram fleet. Atac has awarded the tender for a framework agreement for the supply of 121 two-way trams worth over EUR 457 million, to be built by CAF, which has already helped renew Rome’s underground train fleet.  As pointed o...

Budapest’s tram fleet is being renewed, an important step in modernising public transport in the Hungarian capital, which has a population of more than 1,750,000. BKK, operator of the public transport network in Budapest, and the Municipality of Budapest, as part of the Széchenyi Plan Plus pro...

The first of the new generation of trams, ordered in April 2021 by Carris, is ready and about to be delivered to Lisbon. Carris is the operator of the public transport network in Lisbon, Portugal’s capital city of 545,000 inhabitants, has decided to renew its tram fleet, choosing the five-modu...

Marseille, France’s second largest city after Paris, still chooses the tram as the means of excellence for sustainable mobility. RTM (Règie des Transports Mètrpolitains), which manages public transport in the Marseille area, consisting of several modes of transport (bus, tram, metro, boat) &nb...

CAF Group has won the tender to supply 60 new trams with an option for an additional 17 units, for Metropole Montpellier Mediterranee, a metropolitan area comprising 31 municipalities around the city of Montpellier in the Occitane region. The value of the order exceeds 200 mln euros. The city of Mon...

Electric bus production, future scenarios, aftersales organization and new products. In this interview Petros Spinaris answers the question of Sustainable Bus. Spinaris has been appointed Deputy CEO of Solaris Bus & Coach at the beginning of May, after having joined the company in 2009. He is no...

Solaris Bus & Coach is officially CAF’S property. The Spanish based company acquires 100% of the shares of Solaris Bus & Coach, that will be included to the Group CAF. This transaction, quoting a press release by both Solaris and CAF, will ensure the leadership of the CAF Group and Sol...

Solaris Bus & Coach has been acquired by the Spanish company Caf, which in this way expands its area of interest to the world of electromobility, which sees Solaris as European leader in the electric bus market with a market share of 18 percent. A market with marginal numbers to date, but ready ...

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 2025, ex...