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The second issue of Sustainable Bus Magazine for 2025 brings readers right to the core of Europe’s e-mobility transition — from Berlin’s strategy for driverless-ready charging infrastructure to battery manufacturing and side-by-side testing of 12-meter BEVs. You can read it by clicking HERE. The mag...

Electrification, infrastructure upgrades, and the introduction of autonomous driving are key challenges for public transport operators across Europe. BVG, Berlin’s transport company, is no exception. Resource constraints, evolving regulations, and the need for long-term planning are shaping the pace...

Carrosserie Hess is expanding again in Austria: the Swiss manufacturer closed a framework agreement to supply up to 80 vehicles for two Austrian networks by 2032. The first, Salzburg Linien, operator of a network active since 1940, of 11 trolleybus lines, already has 42 vehicles supplied by Hes...

Trambuses in Paris, previously commissioned by Ile-de-France Mobilités to Van Hool, will now be manufactured by Swiss company Hess. 56 units are set to be in operation in the French capital. As reported on the French media Ville rail & transport, the PTA went in search of a new constructor follo...

Just days after finalizing an agreement with TL of Lausanne for the supply of 53 trolleybuses, Carrosserie Hess,, won a tender from Verkehrsbetriebe Biel, Switzerland for the supply of 18 new trolleybuses, including 14 18-meter articulated and four 12-meter single-case (Lightram 12 DC model) trolley...

Swiss Hess has increased its trolleybus order book considerably in less than a month. The Bellach-based manufacturer has signed orders with two Swiss transport companies for a major renewal of their trolleybus fleets in Lucerne and Lausanne, confirming the strong partnership with both networks. New ...

250 Yutong e-buses are coming to Greece and will be operational in Athens and Thessaloniki. A first batch of 46 vehicles has just been delivered. All the 250 units are expected to be on the road by end of June, according to local media Greek city times. The order was placed in June 2023. Yutong [&he...

Hess has won a tender for 8 articulated e-buses in Lugano (Switzerland). By the end of 2025, eight electric lighTram 19 OPP buses will be operating on route 5 (Viganello–Lugano Centre–Manno), each of which are rapidly recharged at their final stops.  Following two tenders awarded in Italy (in V...

Vicenza has made its choice: Hess. It will be the Swiss manufacturer to will supply SVT Vicenza 16 electric buses, which will be purchased thanks to a 19 million e contribution granted by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. Deliveries will begin in October 2027 and presumably be completed ...

by Stefano Alfano Benr chooses the trolleybus again. And it does so in grand style. Bernmobil, the operator of public transport in Bern, has signed a contract with Hess for the delivery of 13 24-metre double-articulated trolleybuses, model lighTram® 25 DC, similar to the 14 already in operation sinc...