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Solaris has signed a contract with Keolis Sverige, one of Sweden’s largest transport operators, to supply 46 electric buses. The order includes 19 Solaris Urbino 12 electric buses and 27 Solaris Urbino 15 LE electric models, which will operate on routes in the Dalarna region, in central Sweden...

There are more and more electric buses in Italy. From January 1 to November 30 as many as 755 e-buses were registered, compared to 393 in the same period last year, for a growth of 92.1 percent, according to data from Anfia (National Association of the Automotive Industry Supply Chain). And consider...

There is a lot of movement in the European intercity electric bus segment. Battery-powered traction finds its natural habitat in urban mission profiles, and on the streets of our cities, e-buses are increasing in number. But electric is also making inroads in Class II, with several Oems developing m...

After the Crossway Low Entry Elec and the Crossway Normal Floor Mild Hybrid, Iveco Bus has raised the curtain on the latest product innovation, in the name of electric: Crossway Elec high-floor, welcome! The official presentation of this intercity electric bus comes just a few days after Daimler Bus...

In order to have a fully zero-emission fleet on the road by 2035, the Flemish transport company De Lijn has ordered 32 articulated electric buses from Iveco Bus: the E-Way e-buses will be delivered from 2025-2026. This is a follow-up order to an existing framework agreement worth around €24 million....

In the lead-up to the Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2028, UCLA has received a $19.85 million grant that gives continuity to the Electreon-led electric bus wireless roadside charging project and will enable UCLA’s BruinBus fleet (the year-round vehicles that serve the UCLA campus ...

UK bus maker Wrightbus announces it has completed delivery of 31 fuel cell buses for the German operator Regionalverkehr Köln Gmbh (RVK). They are the first ever Wrightbus vehicles on European soil: testing is underway before the fleet goes into service across the Cologne region. In May 2022 Wright...

Scania bets strong(er) on LNG on the touristic segment, and in the meanwhile is developing a plug-in hybrid platform for coaches (you read that right). Scania Italia‘s 2024 has been a record year for the bus segment. And the group is finally entering the e-bus segment (starting with the Class ...

Karsan is set to introduce a intercity Low Entry electric bus model starting in early 2025. It will mark the debut of Karsan in the intercity electric bus market – as well as in the Class II market at all. In the same segment, the latest news are the launch of Irizar i3 in BEV version [&hellip...

While electric bus share in the city bus segment is “almost 100%” as of mid-2024 in China, electrification of coaches is lagging (a lot) behind: their share was around 6% in the first half of 2024. The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) released a new report on zero-emi...

Geely takes a 25% stake in Menarini and will provide know-how for the development of 6 and 8-meter e-bus models. Geely led Chinese new energy bus market in 2023 (thanks to small-sized vehicles), according to Interact Analysis, thanks to sales figures around 75,000 electrified trucks and buses. The o...

Starting November 20th, the first Irizar ie trams started being put into service on one of the longest bus lines in London between Crystal Palace and Orpington. With this project, Irizar e-mobility will electrify the first bus line with ultra-fast opportunity charging in London, following a contract...

31 May 2023 was the turning point. It was the day the Sira Industrie Group took control of Sitcar, a historic bus bodybuilder based in the Italian Motor Valley (province of Modena), an active player in the production of minibuses, school buses and special vehicles since 1978. Almost 16 months have p...

Ebusco announces it has raised a total of EUR 36 million through the successful completion of its Rights Issue. Results of the Rights Issue. The final gross proceeds of the Rights Issue amount to EUR 36 million, corresponding to the issuance of 43,853,031 new ordinary shares at an issue price per sh...

Mercedes eIntouro will be available for orders in first quarter of 2025. The near-production prototype of the BEV version of Daimler Buses’ intercity bus has been presented today at eMobility Days 2024 in Berlin, where a series of other novelties have been presented (including new battery part...

This week we attended Euro Bus Expo, the UK’s biennial bus and coach market exhibition. While the show offered limited product innovations, there were notable developments in industrial and commercial strategies. Looking at the main manufacturers in UK, notable absentees included Volvo (that had a 1...

Mellor is undergoing a major strategic shift following its late-2023 acquisition by Dumarey Group, who took over parent company WN VTech after it entered into administration. Under the new leadership, Mellor has refocused its priorities, discontinuing the Sigma range (launched in 2021 and strongly p...

Solaris has won a tender for 45 double-articulated Urbino 24 electric buses, that will be integrated into the transport network of the Belgian city of Liège. The first order under this tender was placed for 18 buses, the OEM says, by Wallonia’s regional transport company (Opérateur de transport de W...

After Japan, so does the United Kingdom: Karsan is now also expanding to Britain, bringing its e-Jest electric minibus to the island. The Turkish manufacturer, at the Euro Bus Expo in Birmingham, presented the model with right side drive. Karsan at Euro Bus Expo: expansion in UK The vehicle, six met...

An autonomous bus pilot is set to begin in Gothenburg, Sweden, in spring 2025. Passengers will be welcomed on board since August. The news is reported on Swedish trade media Bussmagasinet.se. PTA and PTO in charge of the project are Västtrafik and Vy Buss. Technological partners? The Norwegian compa...

Ebusco is willing to establish a strategic partnership with Chinese battery manufacturer Gotion. Within the partnership, Gotion is considering “an equity participation in Ebusco“, the bus OEM shares in a press note released today, 8th November 2024. However, the deal is presented as a &#...

Coventry City Council’s target to be the UK’s first all-electric bus fleet by 2025 has received a boost as another 64 buses are being rolled out across the city by Stagecoach. This means that more than 200 buses, 80% of all those operating within and travelling into the city, will now be electric ba...

The most likely direct cause of the fires involving RATP e-buses (by BlueBus) that went on fire in 2022 in Paris “is an intercell short-circuit caused by thermal runaway in the high-voltage batteries that power these all-electric vehicles”, reads the report of the technical investigation...

A new issue of Sustainable Bus Magazine – fourth and latest for 2024 – is here! This edition dives (again) into pivotal updates across the zero-emission landscape, with a special focus on Europe’s public transport transformation. Cover story? Test driving the Yutong U18. Highlights? Deve...

Israeli wireless charging solutions provider Electreon announces it has signed an agreement with TransIsrael, a Ministry of Transport agency, to build an advanced electric road system (ERS) on Haifa’s BRT lines. The project will provide dynamic and stationary wireless charging along dedicated ...

Augsburg-based zero-emission vehicle manufacturer Quantron has been in provisional insolvency proceedings since last week. The company has released an official note about it on 31st October. Quantron was initially seen as a rising star in alternative fuel trucks with goals to expand to North America...

Hungarian operator Volánbusz is set to expand its fleet with 20 Ikarus 120e buses. Supported by the Ministry of Energy and the HUMDA Hungarian Mobility Development Agency, part of the Széchenyi University Group, the bus fleets will be deployed in Balatonfüred, Hajdúszoboszló, Keszthely, Komárom, Kom...

New Flyer received a new firm order for 108 zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell Xcelsior Charge FC 40-foot transit buses from San Mateo County Transit (SamTrans), marking the largest single fuel cell bus order in New Flyer’s history. The contract for 108 buses was added to New Flyer’s backlog in Q2 202...

Heliox and First Bus are collaborating on five new electric bus charging depots in Bristol, Weston-super-Mare, Minehead, Taunton, and Basildon. They’ll have a combined capacity to charge over 190 vehicles simultaneously First Bus is investing £89 million to expand electric fleet across the UK ...

Ebusco’s shareholders adopted all resolutions on the agenda of 24th October’s meeting in order to go ahead with the turnover plan, put its operations in order and avoid bankruptcy, that appeared quite close after the loss of a court case against Qbuzz on the 23rd October. The meeting hel...

Bus operator Qbuzz was allowed to terminate an agreement with bus manufacturer Ebusco and therefore does not have to purchase 45 electric buses. The news has been reported first on De Rechtspraak and on the Telegraaf. Reportedly, this was decided on 23th October afternoon in Utrecht by the prelimina...

Irizar has launched the new i3 intercity e-bus model at FIAA in Madrid. On show there are: also a new generation Irizar i6S Efficient unit, an i6S Efficient Hydrogen, and an Irizar ie tram urban electric vehicle. The bodywork of the new electric Irizar i3 is available in an integral self-supporting ...

Sustainable Bus Awards 2025 winners Solaris, MAN and Scania have been announced during FIAA gala night in Madrid. This international award, judged by a panel of 10 journalists from 10 different countries acknowledges the cutting-edge technologies that are shaping the future of mobility. Last year th...

Ebusco announces it has initiated legal proceedings against a customer for payment for 45 buses. The Dutch company has largely suspended its production in anticipation of the outcome of the court hearing and the completion of the contemplated rights issue “to preserve its working capital&#8221...

Transdev Nederland has placed an order for as many as 96 Solaris Urbino Electric buses. The OEM has just announced the deal, that dates back to earlier this year, as Solaris points out. Deliveries are scheduled for the last quarter of 2025. Solaris to deliver electric buses in Utrecht Transdev Neder...

Electric buses are becoming widespread in cities around the world. What about Tesla hitting the market with an electric bus model? Let’s start from the end: in October 2024 Elon Musk presented the Tesla Robovan, able to carry up to 20 passengers and autonomously-driven. The Verge website also ...

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...

Iveco Bus is set to produce e-buses also in its main French plant of Annonay, in addition to the Heuliez Bus facility in Rorthais that has been so far the ‘hub’ for e-bus manufacturing within the Iveco Group. The manufacturer also has an ongoing investment plan of 600 million euros in th...

353 new electric buses were registered in Germany in the first half of the year, surpassing the 297 registered in the same period in 2023. Growth rate? +19 percent. These figures are reported by German trade media omnibus.news and are based on statistics by KBA. This increase has yet to reflect the ...

The second session of the Sustainable Bus Tour 2024 took place on October 2nd in Strasbourg, during the European Mobility Expo show (former Transport Publics). Entitled “On the way to a fully zero emission city bus market in 2035? Technology | business case | market uptake“, the conference delved in...

Arriva has placed an order for 157 electric buses from VDL Bus & Coach, destined for the new West Brabant concession, which will enter into operation on 6 July 2025. The operator has been awarded the concession in early 2024. A new bus fleet of more than 200 zero-emission vehicles&nbsp...

Sales of zero emission buses and coaches in Europe increased 35% (from 2,088 units to 2,819 units) in the first half of 2024, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation. However, “the overall market share of zero-emission buses and coaches declined from 16% in the first hal...

Arriva announces it has been successful in its bid to be the first operator of an electric bus fleet in the Hungarian capital of Budapest, following the award of two new 12-year contracts by the Budapest Transport Centre (BKK) authorities. Contracts were signed at a ceremony on October 3, 2024. Arri...

European Mobility Expo has been live from Tuesday 1st October until 3 October in Strasbourg, exceptionally in the city that hosts the seat of the European Parliament and not in Paris, due to logistics issues related with the Olympic year. Within the expo, bus OEMs are well represented (among others:...

Karsan took the opportunity of European Mobility Expo in Strasbourg to announce a new partnership agreement with Cosmobilis Group to strengthen its operations in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Luxembourg. Through this agreement, HCI, a company in which Karsan holds shares, has been restructured w...

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. In the first half of 2024, according to ACEA’s figures, the European zero emission city bus market grew 45%, wi...

The second session of the Sustainable Bus Tour 2024 is set to take place on October 2nd in Strasbourg, during the European Mobility Expo show (former Transport Publics). Entitled “On the way to a fully zero emission city bus market in 2035? Technology | business case | market uptake“, the conference...

Fifty-one buses, 31 hydrogen fuel cell and 20 electric, all E-Way models. Iveco Bus consolidates its position as market leader in France by winning three supply contracts for zero-emission buses. The Cannes Lérins Urban Community has renewed its partnership with Oem by ordering twelve Gx 337 H2 Lini...

On September 19, BYD delivered 100 fully electric buses to CUTCSA, Uruguay’s largest electric public transit operator, at its Qingdao factory. CUTSCA expressed its commitment to achieving a fully electrified fleet by 2040 through continued collaboration. A study out in late 2023 forecasted that 25,0...

Works are underway at Bolloré for the introduction of a new generation of solid-state batteries with a 20-minute charging time and 50% higher energy density. Additionally, Bluebus might be eyeing future expansion of its product lineup: 18-meter model is not excluded. At IAA Transportation 2024, Rich...

Sources well informed on the facts, quoted by Italian trade media Autobusweb, deny the news about a board meeting held last week to evaluate the proposed partnership with the Chinese group Geely. In fact, there would be no real confirmation of what was reported.

After Munich airport, MAN is providing e-buses also in Amsterdam Schiphol airport. 52 zero emission buses have just been commissioned, the airport reports, and are set to transport passengers between the aircraft and the terminal. MAN Truck & Bus has just been awarded the tender, that saw 5 OEMs...

Iveco Bus and ZF are entering a cooperation aiming at deploying e-mobility solutions for passenger transportation. The announcement was made at IAA Hannover and it’s quite surprising as up to now Iveco e-buses have been equipped with Siemens (now Cummins) e-powertrain. What is also worth notic...

Polish battery systems make Impact Clean Power Technology has launched what the company claims being “Europe’s most modern, highly automated” lithium-ion battery production line. The new line, designed and manufactured by Teamtechnik, will allow the company to increase its generati...

Habas officially entered the bus world at Busworld 2023 in Brussels. Habas’ bus division is the latest challenge from a Turkish group with a capital “g,” as it has an 80 percent market share in the gas market in the motherland, operating in disparate sectors: iron, steel, shipyards, ports, and...

After debuting in the UK in 2021, Scania and Higer have decided to bring the Fencer to continental Europe as well. We picked up the news at IAA Transportation in Hannover, where the bus model was not physically present at the show. The news is the decision to market the range in Germany and Austria,...

The IAA Transportation 2024 event in Hanover is running from September 17, to 22. Latest advancements in commercial vehicles, logistics, and transport sectors will be shown, with a specific focus on the truck market. In fact, despite being a leading platform for the industry, bus manufacturers have ...

The third issue of Sustainable Bus Magazine 2024 is now out! In this edition, we explore Irizar’s insights on the future of zero-emission technology, the development strategies of Ekoenergetyka, Kempower and FPT Industrial, the features of battery-electric coach Temsa LD SB E and of 18-meter e-buses...

Karsan has signed a H2-powered cooperation with Toyota. The two companies plan to launch their first hydrogen fuel cell-equipped buses in 2025. In the fuel cell bus sector, Toyota is already working with Portuguese CaetanoBus and Daimler Buses. Karsan fuel cell buses with Toyota modules Karsan intro...

Irizar e-mobility is set to deliver their 1000th e-bus soon, 8 years after foundation of the company under the umbrella of Irizar group. Following this announcement, the manufacturer states that La Veloz, a company belonging to the Samar Group, will incorporate by end of the month two new electric b...

In Germany, every 100 zero emission buses to be tendered according to plans, only 42 are set to be effectively procured following halt of subsidies. A recent industry survey of VDV member companies specifically shows that of the 2,396 locally emission-free city buses originally planned, only 42 per ...

Munich Airport, one of the busiest aviation hubs in Europe, has ordered a total of 49 electric buses from MAN Truck & Bus, with an option for a further 25 vehicles. The first ten solo vehicles are currently being delivered to AeroGround, the airport’s subsidiary for ground handling and tra...

Four letters, one abbreviation, one acronym: Ccig. Four letters, one abbreviation, one acronym that stand for China City Industrial Group. We went to look for some information on the entity that has been much talked about for months (since June 4) for its interest in taking over a share of the capit...

These are not the first ever electric buses to join Asf Autolinee‘s fleet, as in the past few months the operator had welcomed the first two into the family. Earlier today we were invited to attend the unveiling of 23 Yutong e-buses (through Italian dealer Powerbus, owned by Massimo Fiorese) t...

Iveco Bus will supply its first E-Way H2 (although under Heuliez Bus brand GX 337 H2 Linium, which is still in force in the France market) to the Cannes Lérins Urban Community with deliveries starting in the second half of 2025. Also battery-electric by Iveco Bus have been delivered so far (35 units...

2024 is not looking as a positive year for VDL Group financial results. Combined turnover of the group is dropping, and the bus and coach division is still facing very though time, with turnover falling -14% compared to Jan-Jun 2023. And it should be noted that 2023 had also been a truly bad year fo...

Swedish carrier Connect Bus has decided to switch electric bus supplier due to significant delivery delays from Ebusco, is reported on Swedish trade media Bussmagasinet.se. Connect Bus will also be seeking financial compensation from Ebusco. Originally, Connect Bus had planned to introduce 47 new el...

Italian bus manufacturer Industria Italiana Autobus (IIA), with plants in Bologna and Flumeri, is navigating a turbulent period following its acquisition by Seri Industrial in June 2024. The takeover has sparked concern among political leaders and labor unions, particularly after plans to shut down ...

Arriva Group is set to introduce 16 new electric buses in Czech Republic. The next-generation vehicles will operate from a new purpose-built charging hub in the city of Kladno as 47 diesel and CNG buses begin to be phased out by the city, Arriva states. The order is the biggest single purchase of el...

SUN Mobility and Veera Vahana showcased India’s first modular battery swapping technology for Heavy Commercial Vehicles at Prawaas 4.0 held in late August in Bangalore. Now SUN Mobility has tied relations with bus manufacturer Veera Vahana, based in Bangalore, in order to launch what is claime...

Around 5,900 electric buses are in operation in 41 cities in 12 Latin American countries, according to data highlighted in the E-Bus Radar, whose update was launched during South American trade expo LAT.BUS 2024 in early August. Launched in 2020, the initiative, backed by the Zero Emission Bus Rapid...

Iveco, Bluebus and Daimler Buses are so far leading the e-bus market 2024 in France. In the country, as already reported, electric bus registrations decreased 16% compared to the first half of 2023, vs a 45% increase in e-bus registrations in the continent. As reported by German trade media omnibus....

Unveiling of the EKA 9, the company's 9-meter electric city bus, has been among the key moment of Prawaas 4.0 event 2024 in Bangalore, India. EKA by Pinnacle Mobility Solutions is the latest initiative from the Pinnacle Industries group. Pinnacle Industries, a leading automotive seating, interiors, ...

Ebusco‘s Supervisory Board has appointed Christian Schreyer as new CEO in the framework of the turnaround plan put in place by the company’s Executive Team. In this process, “it was concluded that the organisation should be led by a single CEO with a general management track record...

A new project for a charging park dedicated to electric trucks and buses was recently unveiled at the Allianz Arena in Munich, the iconic home of FC Bayern Munich and one of the most advanced football stadiums in the world. What is interesting, MAN announced it will deliver the first all-electric co...

Daimler Buses and ChargePoint have signed a collaboration agreement to enable transportation companies with multi-brand fleets to use vehicle data from Mercedes-Benz and Setra buses without additional hardware and on a larger scale in ChargePoint’s fleet management system. With Omniplus On dig...

The consortium of SOR Libchavy and Škoda Group has signed a framework contract with Košice Public Transport Company, in Slovakia, for the delivery of up to 30 articulated 18-metre electric buses in the second largest city in the country. What is worth noticing, the vehicles are set to be charged dur...

FlixBus has launched in mid August a 100% electric long-distance coach service between Cambridge and London in partnership with carrier Whippet and Zenobē. The route is an almost 200km (124 miles) round trip, and is trialled for six weeks on FlixBus’ long-distance coach network. The news follows the...

Belgian private bus operator Hansea has 90 MAN Lion’s City E buses in operation and in early August landed a deal for a further 181 e-buses from the same OEM, bringing its fleet to a total of 271 of the fully electric city buses. A success story that began back in 2021 with the test […]

The bus, fitted with 472kWh batteries as standard (the supplier is the Polish Impact), comes together with a 14-years warranty, covering as many as 1 million km (whichever comes first). The vehicle launched this week is a demonstrator "which will be made available to operators upon completion of its...

MVG is rolling out 13 new electric buses by MAN in Munich’s streets. The fleet of battery-powered Lion’s City 12 E buses will join 21 e-buses, also from MAN, operating in the city since 2023, thus expanding the e-bus fleet of Munich’s largest public transport company, coming to 71 ...

With 131 hydrogen buses deployed in the continent, European major fuel cell bus project Joint Initiative for hydrogen Vehicles across Europe (JIVE 1) has come to an end. Vehicles have been rolled out in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK, marking a significant step towards sustainable urban...

Ebusco half 2024 financial results show EBITDA loss of €60.7 million (increased 40% compared to 43 in 2023) and revenue at €38 million (-8.8%). Just 98 buses were delivered, vs a order book of as many as 1,662 buses. “Scaling up with contract manufacturers has been hampered by start-up ineffic...

Zero emission bus registrations grew 45% in the first half of 2024, according to data from ACEA. Their market share increased from 13.7% to 15.5% (17% considering also EFTA countries and UK). Looking at 2023, still according to ACEA, electric bus registrations in the European Union “increased by 39....

From mid-2025, the electric buses in Vienna’s city centre will be replaced by new fuel cell buses. It’s a stark opening, that of the press release sent out by Wiener Linien on 29th July. Stark because it implies a change of direction compared to what done so far (and to what is common al...

A bus industry consortium led by Zenobē is to deploy 252 electric buses (and coaches!) in Scotland within the Scottish Government’s Zero Emission Bus Challenge Fund (ScotZEB 2). Phase 2 of ScotZEB differed from Phase 1 (launched in 2021) in that applicants had to cooperatively pitch as part of a con...

70 Iveco Bus E-Way electric buses (although branded as Heuliez models as usual in the domestic market) are set to operate in Nantes following a call for tenders commission of Nantes Métropole. The new buses will be operated by carrier Semitan (a semi-public company 65% owned by Nantes Métropole and ...

The Völklinger Verkehrsbetriebe has opted for the charge management system MOBILEcharge from CarMedialab, a subsidiary of the INIT Group, to efficiently manage the charging processes of its constantly growing fleet of e-buses. The installation is planned for July 2024 and includes the integration o...

TMB Barcelona has put into service the first fuel cell buses out of a 38-units order awarded to Solaris (36 12-meter and 2 articulated). The supply was formalized in early 2024. Unlike the buses from other manufacturers that have been put into circulation, this one will not be used on the X1 line, b...

Qbuzz will take over the Zuid-Holland Noord concession in the Netherlands as of 15 December 2024. Formerly ordered (March 2023) 15-meter Van Hool e-buses will be replaced by Yutong vehicles, is reported by the operator, that has also shared some rendering. 50 units of Yutong U15 e-buses have been or...

Arriva London has placed an order for 51 Volvo BZL Electric Double Deck buses. They’ll housed in Tottenham garage and serve routes 341 and 243 from 2025. Volvo will take care of chassis while bodywork will be provided by Egyptian MCV. According to UK trade media Routeone, “The buses will...

Irizar will launch a intercity electric bus model (the first in its history) during the second half of 2024. It’ll be showcased at FIAA in Madrid. The plan has been anticipated by Irizar to the jury of the Sustainable Bus Award, whose Italian member is our sister magazine AUTOBUS, during a vis...

In the UK outside London, there’s growing media attention on the prospect of public ownership of the bus network via franchised services. Can this hybrid model of public ownership with private operation arrest the decline in bus patronage? Margaret Thatcher, UK Prime Minister between 1979 and ...

The crisis of the Belgian bus manufacturer Van Hool, its bankruptcy and subsequent takeover by the Dutch group VDL is a story that has monopolised the interest of the bus and coach industry in a 2024 that sees the European bus industry changing shape dramatically. The Van Hool – VDL story ties...

After Italy, with the acquisition of what used to be its dealer for the Italian market, namely Mauri Bus System and the creation of Otokar Italia, a subsidiary of Otokar Europe and under the Koç Group umbrella, now the Turkish Oem is also going to conquer the German market, where it has decided to o...

Scania has strengthened its e-mobility offering with new charging solutions through the establishment of Erinion, a new company specializing in private and semi-public charging solutions that plans to install 40,000 new charging points by 2030. In addition, the public-use charging infrastructure for...

The Temsa LD SB E intercity BEV bus model was presented for the first time at the IAA expo in Hannover in 2022 and re-proposed at Busworld in Brussels in October 2023 It joins a zero-emission line-up that already includes the urban battery-powered Temsa Avenue Electron and the electric version of th...

The Italian bus market is flourishing in 2024, building on the already strong trend observed in 2023, significantly boosted by Next Generation EU funding initiatives aimed at fleet renewal. According to the latest report from the manufacturers’ organization ANFIA, covered on Italian trade medi...

Stagecoach will receive 24 Enviro100EV small buses and 17 Enviro400EV double deckers in early 2025 for routes operated on behalf of the capital’s transport authority Transport for London (TfL). The OEM has delivered in March 2024 to the same operator its first new generation e-bus. And Stagecoach re...

Barcelona’s H12 line will be fully electric by the end of the year, as ultra-fast chargers have been installed at both ends of the line and all buses circulating on the route will be soon electric. Charge management system will be done by Carmedialab. TMB currently has 147 electric buses and w...

Irizar e-mobility has just delivered in Pamplona, Spain, a fleet of 10 new zero emission e-buses (model ie tram, 12-meter length). These ten buses join the other ten ie trams that have been running in the Pamplona region since February. Pamplona rolls out Irizar e-buses The vehicles, which have a tr...

The Federation of Belgian Bus and Coach Operators (FBAA) has received from VDL answers to some questions about how VDL is going to behave concerning obligations and warranties of Van Hool vehicles following takeover of the company, as reported on Belgian trade media PVMagazine. Such answers were rec...

Solaris Urbino 12 Electric is a quite well-known model for those into the European bus market. with over 2,500 e-buses delivered, Solaris is today the leading European player in the zero-emission bus sector. The New Solaris Urbino, a highly successful model launched in 2016, have been available in a...

For years now, ATM Milan has taken up the challenge of energy transition and, to date, the operator that manages the city’s public transport system, has around 250 electric buses in its fleet (which will become 300 by the end of 2024), out of a total of 1,200 vehicles. ATM’s goal is well...

Global investment organisation EQT and logistics investor Kühne Holding are going to acquire a 35% minority stake in Flix. Such investment is part of “a long-term strategic partnership built on a common vision for Flix’s next phase of profitable growth across new and existing markets and offe...

Volvo Buses has reportedly decided to discontinue production of the 9700 and 9900 coach range, according to a report published today, 4 July, in the Swedish trade media Bussmagasinet.se, which also quotes statements from Volvo Buses press office. The move to back out of the agreement with Sunsundegu...

MAN has significantly upgraded its entire MAN and Neoplan bus series with many new features in order to accomplish European safety regulations. Model year 2024 bus and coach ranges have been unveiled in Saalfelden, Austria, during a European press meeting serving also as pre-IAA Transportation press...

De Lijn announces it is rolling out the first new generation electric buses by VDL into service from its Destelbergen depot on 1 July. The first 5 of 24 e-buses from VDL will strengthen the Flemish Transport Company’s electric fleet in the Ghent region. Order dates back to late 2021. The very ...

Latest version of Equipmake’s modular electric chassis is set to be used for repowering of one of the UK’s most in-service double deckers: the Wrightbus Streetdeck. The conversion implies “no reduction in passenger carrying capacity giving”, Equipmake states. Oddly enough, the same Wrigh...

In 2023 nearly 2,500 zero-emission buses have been awarded in Italy for an investment of 1.8 billion euros. Most of those will have to be in operation by June 2026, according to the schedule of Next Generation Europe fundings. The “Electrification trends in local public transport” report...

244. This is the number of e-buses ordered by Stagecoach following the UK Government’s Zero-Emission Regional Bus Areas scheme (ZEBRA 2) award. The operator has then placed the largest single order of Alexander Dennis’ zero-emission buses to date (including the first order for the OEM’s new in...

Ebusco says its current guidance of revenue in excess of €325 million combined with a positive EBITDA in 2024, released in March 2024, is no longer achievable. The change of strategy, heading towards assembly process (with partner in China) with only bus finalization to be done in Deurne, Netherland...

Rabobank's analysis is that it put down in black and white, with figures, the trend of increasing present of Chinese manufacturers in the European e-bus sector. "After 2017, market share of EU manufacturers declined from 74% to 54% in 2023. In the same period, Chinese manufacturers have increased th...

“Municipal buses continue to electrify at a rapid pace and exceed 60% of sales already by 2030, reaching 83% by 2040” states the latest Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) latest 2024 Electric Vehicle Outlook. Today municipal buses, estimated to be 3.4 million worldwide, emit no more tha...

Volkswagen Truck & Bus has started operational tests of a prototype electric bus powered with batteries fitted with NTO developed by CBMM together with Toshiba, an unprecedented use in the global automotive industry, as this technology allows for ultra-fast recharging. Also, according to the par...

Bus manufacturer Wrightbus has launched a new re-powering service by launching NewPower, a new entity headquartered at the former location of EV startup Arrival. The goal is that of “eradicating diesel powertrains in older fleets at a substantially lower price than a new bus”. Wrightbus ...

Solaris has secured new contracts to supply electric buses in the Scandinavian market, specifically the Swedish market. In fact, Nobina, Scandinavia’s largest operator, has ordered a total of 88 electric buses from the Polish manufacturer (CAF Group) for its fleet operating in three regions: S...

The budget allocated for the procurement of electric buses in Berlin this year has been dramatically reduced. Originally set at 33.11 million euros, the budget now stands at a mere eight million euros, according to a report from the German publication Tagesspiegel, as covered by trade agency Electri...

Carrier HTM, operating in Dutch The Hague area, has presented the first out of a 102-units e-bus order commissioned to Daimler Buses. The eCitaro for The Hague feature 490 kWh battery capacity in addition with equipment for pantograph charging. The buses were ordered in mid-2023 (a total of 102 eCit...

Dutch public transport authority Province of Utrecht has awarded Keolis a ten-year contract for the operation and maintenance of its Utrecht bus network. The contract, worth a total of 750 million euros, includes the deployment of more than 250 electric buses, the largest e-fleet operated by Keolis ...

Six major players in the Swedish bus transport sector are urging the government to quickly approve the use of buses up to 25.5 meters long, as reported on Swedish trade media Bussmagasinet.se. Currently, the legal limit for bus length in Sweden is 24 meters. In their letter to the government, these ...

Duties on Chinese EVs will affect battery-electric vehicles “designed for the transport of nine or less persons, including the driver“, says Olof Gill, Commission spokesperson for trade and agriculture, to Sustainable Bus. EU Commission provisional duties on EVs On 12th June, the Commiss...

VDL Groep has stated in a press note out on 11th June that its purchase of Van Hool will save around “1,600 jobs in the high-quality European bus industry with immediate effect”. Goal of the takeover is “to further strengthen the activities of its Buses division“. However, it...

To help its customers and accompany them step by step in the transition to electric, Scania announced that it has established Erinion, a company specializing in private and semi-public charging systems. This strategic move will see the installation of 40,000 new charging points at customer sites and...

Air ducts, hat and luggage racks, service seats, upholstery, lighting, handrails, passenger monitors, call buttons, and so on. This is the offering of Farhym, a supplier of systems and solutions for the interior design of commercial vehicles: school buses, coaches (double decker included, of course)...

The transport union of the Communauté d’agglomération du Pays Basque (France) has ordered eleven new Irizar e-mobility electric buses. The model chosen is still the Irizar ie tram, which is known as the Tram’bus in the Basque Country. They have ordered seven 18-metre-long vehicles and four 12 ...

To find out who the three winners of the Sustainable Bus Awards 2025 will be, we will have to wait for the awards ceremony during the opening day of the FIAA in Madrid, scheduled to take place in the Spanish capital Oct. 22-25. In the meantime, however, the 14 finalists who will compete for the [&he...

Ekoenergetyka opened today, 4th June 2024, a new production line that is set to double the speed of production. The new line, inaugurated today, can produce up to 50 chargers in each eight-hour shift, a figure that will rise to 90 units by beginning 2025. The company plans to further automate the li...

Arriva Group announced on 3rd June 2024 the completion of its acquisition by infrastructure investor I Squared Capital. The acquisition, first announced in October 2023, encompasses all of Arriva’s businesses across 11 countries. Deutsche Bahn had acquired Arriva in 2010. The transaction, according ...

The launch of the BEV version of the Lion’s Coach in 2025, the readiness of the market for such innovations, the necessity of subsidies and infrastructure for the success of BEVs in the long-distance segment, the importance of political frameworks, and the impact on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Fa...

The first electric bi-articulated buses derived from the new Volvo BZR platform (launched in March 2024) will be validated through trials in Latin America. The buses will operate in Curitiba, Brazil; Bogotá, Colombia; and Mexico City, Volvo Buses states in a press note. The bi-articulated chassis is...

3,400 clean school buses (92% of which will be electric) funded in USA. Biden-Harris Administration announced on 29th May the recipients of nearly $900 million for Clean School Buses within EPA’s Clean School Bus Rebate Program funded by President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. Fundings will b...

Bozankaya has unveiled today at Busworld Turkey its new generation e-bus series, bearing the signature of Bozankaya engineering from design to production, as the company stresses. The bus will be available with lengths of 10, 12, 18, and 25 meters. Ahead of this, Bozankaya launched in 2017 the Sileo...

Transdev-owned carrier Hermes presented its brand new generation of VDL Citea buses to the public on Monday, 27 May 2024, following an order that dates back to 2021. With the deployment of the first 32 of a total of 64 new generation Citea (the model was launched in September 2022), Hermes is now in...

Hamburger carrier VHH has just took delivery of 48 battery-electric buses by MAN, out of an order for 100 MAN e-buses (and 250 Daimler Buses-branded eCitaro) signed in March 2023. MAN Lion’s City E had already been purchased before that commission. 183 of around 750 buses are now emission-free...

Market conditions in 2023, expectations for 2024, rising demand for electric buses, challenges in zero-emission bus deployment, competition with Chinese industry players: these were just a few key topics discussed by Tugrul Arikan, Managing Director of Anadolu Isuzu, in this interview. It follows a ...

BYD has raised the curtain on a new EV double decker bus model customized for the UK market. The model, named BYD BD11, features Blade Battery modules integrated in the chassis (as the B12 presented at Busworld 2023). The bus, specially tailored for London, is set to enter service later this year. A...

Everfuel A/S has opened its hydrogen refuelling station at the Frankfurt municipal bus company In-der-City-Bus’ (ICB) bus depot in Germany. The depot station is owned by the bus operator ICB and will service 23 zero emission fuel cell buses used for daily city and municipal public transportation. Bu...

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...

Deals with giants such as Volvo Buses, Scania and BYD have led to a lot of talk about the Spanish bodybuilder Castrosua lately. As a matter of fact, they fit into a trend that sees the European industrial bus landscape changing in the direction of a new golden age for bodybuilders. In this interview...

First Bus and West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) have announced a further £11.2m investment in the operator’s Bramley depot which will make half the fleet zero emission before the end of 2024. WYCA with support from First Bus have been successful in securing £3.4m in a ‘variation request’ from...

Accelera by Cummins, the zero-emissions business segment of Cummins, is collaborating with Turkish bus builder BMC to provide battery solutions for their transit bus operations. The companies have signed a letter of intent (LOI) for Accelera to power BMC’s city buses. This marks the first time the B...

The newly planned bus theme park at IAA Transportation in Hannover has now been cancelled. Apparently, “bus manufacturers had not made sufficient bookings”, according to the organizing association VDA (quoted by German trade media omnibus.news), although a IAA spokeperson stated that &#8...

SUSTAINABLE BUS editorial staff has flown to the other side of the world, literally making themselves into two, or rather three: if one slice of the team has remained to man the office in Milan, another has packed its bags for Jakarta, for Busworld South East Asia, and yet another – the one th...

The first session of the Sustainable Bus Tour 2024 went live last week at Next Mobility Exhibition in Milan, culminating in a conversation between representatives from UITP, ATM Milano, RATP Dev, ZF and Iveco Bus on the evolving landscape of public transport and how energy transition and digitalizat...

Following approval from the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union today (13th May 2024) formally adopted the regulation on CO2 emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles, amending and strengthening the existing EU rules. The updated rules will further reduce CO2 emiss...

Last week’s Next Mobility Exhibition in Milan showcased an array of cutting-edge vehicles from leading manufacturers. Highlights included Otokar exhibiting the intercity e-bus e-Territo and the updated version of e-Kent C, Altas’ Novus City V7, a collaboration with Zhongtong, BYD’s...

Turin public transport municipal operator GTT and Indcar officially signed the contract for the purchase of 22 electric minibuses realized by the French company Bluebus (Indcar acts as dealer for Italy and Spain since mid-2023). The signing took place on 9 May during NME – Next Mobility Exhibi...

Tecnobus will produce the futuristic ‘pod’ designed by the Paduan start-up Next in its plant close to Rome and in the newly acquired Ferentino plant (formerly Valeo). Production of the first prototypes is scheduled for the last quarter of 2024. The announcement was made at the Next Mobility Exhibiti...

It’s out today, it smells of freshly-printed paper and is ready for traveling around the globe in order to be massively-distributed at Next Mobility Exhibition in Milan, IT-TRANS in Karlsruhe, Busworld South East Asia in Jakarta (Indonesia), Busworld Turkey in Istanbul. We are talking about th...

De Lijn has awarded a framework agreement for up to 100 BRT e-buses to Spanish Irizar e-mobility. The manufacturer has won the tender issued by the Belgian transport company, as its bid was selected as the best out of three submitted offers (out of eight selected candidates, De Lijns states).

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has awardedNew Flyer a contract for up to 460 next-generation Xcelsior CHARGE NG 40-foot battery-electric transit buses (BEBs). The contract includes a firm order for 80 vehicles, including 48 buses with New Flyer’s standard two-door configuration an...

Bus registrations in European Union grew 10% in the first quarter of 2024, compared to the first three months of last year, as recorded by ACEA, the association of European manufacturers. However, their share slightly decreased to 12.3% of the total bus market (from 13.7% in Q1 2023). The first quar...

Next Mobility Exhibition in Milan will host the kick-off of Sustainable Bus Tour 2024, that after 3 years of being conducted digitally, will be built this year around two in-person conferences. “Balance Shifts in Public Transport: Operators and Industry in the Energy Transition Era,” is ...

Next Mobility Exhibition 2024 is ready to go live on 8-10 May in Milan: on the rich menu of the expo, the manufacturers’ proposals – obviously in the name of energy transition, with electric and hydrogen as the main technological players – represent the main courses. Here, then, is...

"Cleaner buses, bigger fleets. That’s what the bus sector itself sees as the future of the bus in Europe", UITP says presenting its newly-released "Bus Fleet Survey 2023", initiative of the UITP Vehicles and Equipment Industry Committee, based on a survey conducted on 54 organisations (40 PTOs and 1...

SWO Mobil in Osnabrück has ordered 19 Mercedes-Benz eCitaro buses, following Europe-wide tender. They are set to be delivered from 2025. The total capacity of the five 98.3 kWh battery packs installed on each of the buses amounts to 491.5 kWh and “enables them to cover an operating range of a...

2,400 participants (20 percent more than in 2022) attended Bus2Bus 2024, ‘populated’ by 140 exhibitors from 20 countries. The expo was live on 24-25th Aprile and dates are already scheduled for the next edition: April 15 and 16, 2026. Well, what have we seen at the expo? At the forefront...

Wrightbus has signed another deal for hydrogen bus supply in Germany: 46 vehicles have been indeed ordered by Cottbusverkehr GmbH and will serve the city of Cottbus, the second largest city in the state of Brandenburg, and and in the western part of the district of Spree-Neiße. The first buses are d...

US bus manufacturer Gillig is set to expand its zero-emission product lineup with the addition of a hydrogen fuel cell powered bus, to be developed in collaboration with BAE Systems and Ballard Power Systems. Earlier this year Gillig has received a major order in Seattle for its battery-electric bus...

Omnicar, a 25-years old German company active so far in the bodyworks on Sprinter and Daily minibuses, has launched its first vehicles with own logo unveiling the W-Smile S6 and W-Smile S7 at Bus2Bus in Berlin. The vehicles are battery-electric minibuses, 6 and 7-meter respectively (the latter avail...

Daimler Buses and Polish battery systems expert BMZ Poland have entered into a strategic partnership for the development and supply of the next generation of e-bus batteries. The new battery generation NMC4 – succeeding the current NMC3 technology by BorgWarner launched in early 2023 – "will combin...

Bus2Bus 2024 begins tomorrow with a spotlight on the latest trends in the bus and supply industry. Over 140 companies (a 40 percent increase) from 20 countries are displaying innovative and sustainable mobility solutions. International companies cover 38 percent of the exhibitors. Trade visitors can...

Olof Persson will replace Gerrit Marx as Iveco Group CEO. The latter will leave the Group to take up his appointment as the CEO of CNH Industrial. Persson, who is currently an Iveco Group Board Independent Director, will step in to the role of CEO, having been closely involved in the development of ...

After unveiling the Crossway Low Entry Hybrid in late 2022 (also available in battery-electric version), Iveco Bus is now updating the range with the mild hybrid version of the Crossway normal floor intercity bus. It’s available in 3 lengths: 10.7, 12, 13 meters, POP and LINE ve...

Solaris Bus & Coach has just delivered 15 Solaris Urbino electric buses to the largest Estonian public transport operator, Aktsiaselts Tallinna Linnatransport (TLT), which provides transport services in the capital of Estonia. The contract value, including the delivery of buses and charging infr...

A comparison between what are arguably the two most representative Low Entry bus models, both of which have recently undergone a range update: the Setra MultiClass, which contributed to the boom in this segment with its previous 400 series and now offers the revamped 500 series; and the Iveco Crossw...

The Walloon government has approved the Mobi’Park project to build a new bus depot at Tilleur (Saint-Nicolas), in the province of Liège. It will be the first electrified depot in Wallonia (one of the three regions of Belgium), said Philippe Henry, Walloon Minister for Mobility, according to lo...

VDL – Schmitz Cargobull’s bid has been chosen by trustees in Van Hool’s case as the best fit to ensure continuity in the company. Administrators taking care of the post-bankruptcy takeover of the OEM “believe a much faster start-up can be achieved. They feared that with other...

Mercedes eCitaro G, Solaris Urbino 18 Electric, MAN Lion’s City E 18, and Ebusco 3.0 18-meter. These manufacturers have converged in Bonn (Germany) to subject their 18-meter electric buses to scrutiny and driving performance evaluations during the yearly initiative E-Bus test, promoted since 2017 by...

Bus manufacturer Van Hool has been declared bankrupt. The information has been stated by the manufacturer itself this morning, 8th April, and the topic got high attention on local media, in particular from De Standaard. The company is set to be taken over by Dutch VDL and German Schmitz Cargobull, b...

For the VDL Group, 2023 was a two-sided year. In hot days that saw the Dutch giant get its hands – along with Schmitz Cargobull – on Van Hool, the press note containing the financial results achieved during the past year was released. VDL Groep president and CEO Willem van der Leegte sai...

“Only VDL-Schmitz still in the running for Van Hool, Dumarey no longer involved“. It’s the headline of the article published today, 5th April, by Flemish newspaper De Tijd, with significants updates about the future of Van Hool. The other takeover candidate, Dumarey, has thrown in ...

A new inverted pantograph electric charging station has been inaugurated at the Carabanchel operations centre of EMT Madrid. Now the depot has been enhanced with further 118 electric bus’ chargers, enabling a total of 260 vehicles to be charged simultaneously. With the fourth phase of charging...

Ballard Power Systems announced the signing of a Long Term Supply Agreement with bus manufacturer Solaris Bus & Coach, for the supply of 1,000 hydrogen fuel cell engines through 2027 for the European transit bus market. Over 1,700 fuel cell buses powered by Ballard are in operation worldwide as ...

The first trolleybus model Škoda 32 Tr for Vilniaus viešasis transportas has entered the type tests and homologation process in Pilsen, the manufacturer announces. This milestone signifies big progress in producing 91 trolleybuses bound for Vilnius, Lithuania. The contract with the transport operato...

«Van Hool remains determined to pursue a sustainable future for the company. In the context of the ongoing procedures at the Mechelen Business Court, Van Hool will take an extra week to safeguard the possibility of a quick restart», the company itself makes known in a press release issued on 2nd Apr...

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...

Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe (KVB) has achieved a significant milestone in its Smart City KVB program with the inauguration of its new Porz electric bus depot on March 17, 2024. This depot, housing over 100 electric buses, represents a pivotal step towards the company's goal of transitioning its entire ...

Van Hool's bankruptcy is now unavoidable, crisis manager Marc Zwaaneveld (appointed in early 2024) told in an interview with De Standaard. Where he releases significants recriminations towards Van Hool's family. Also, production of trambuses for Paris is a high risk, as he specifically stated that t...

Ebusco achieved €102.4 million revenue in 2023, recording EBITDA loss of €95.7 million, compared to €34.8 million negative a year earlier, and net loss for the year of €120.1 million (vs €32.2 million in 2022). Ebusco’s net cash position was €27.9 million as per 31 December 2023 down from €95.2 mill...

Further £143 million (166 million euros) will be invested in England to roll out almost a thousand new zero emission buses. Transport Secretary Mark Harper has confirmed that 955 zero emission buses will hit the road as 25 councils receive funding to decarbonise their bus fleets, with rural areas pr...

Hochbahn electric bus fleet in Hamburg has covered 20 million kilometres so far. By mid-2024, the number of e-buses will grow to 260 vehicles (199 solo buses and 61 articulated buses), accounting for more than a quarter of the total fleet of almost 1,100 buses. As of today, there are currently 242 b...

The new Volvo 8900 Electric is an electric low-entry bus for city, intercity, and commuter operations. It is offered in both two- and three-axle configurations, with a capacity of up to 110 passengers. The driveline can be specified with one or two motors, giving a traction power of up to 400kW, or ...

The brand new Volvo BZR electric bus platform was unveiled. It's set to join the already available BZL platform in the Swedish company's offering. The Volvo BZR platform, according to statements from the company (further technical information will follow), is designed to meet a diverse range of tran...

In 2023, the company generated an adjusted return on sales of 4.7, which constitutes a significant rise on the prior year (PY 0.4 percent). A positive market development and consistent implementation of efficiency measures made these results possible. Now Daimler Buses states it aims to "achieve an ...

Blackbuck EV has kicked off road trials for its ELON 3X electric bus. These trials signify a pivotal phase as the vehicles undergo rigorous validation and testing in preparation for certification. First pictures of the new product were shared in late 2023.

According to the information shared by Domenico Nucera, President of Bus business in Iveco Group, during his speech at Iveco Group Capital Markets Day, "The next move is to invest 300 million euros for a modular, electric-born architecture that will integrate the batteries in the vehicle structure t...

The order includes eleven articulated buses and nine 12-meter buses with hydrogen drive. It's the fourth hydrogen buses ordered awarded by RVK to Solaris: first one in March 2020 for 15 units, then 31 in early 2023, last (but not least!) further 18 vehicles commissioned in September 2023.

Keolis achieved revenue of €7.0 bn in 2023, up by 6.6% on an organic basis compared to 2022. The group’s recurring operating profit (EBIT) amounts to €164 million, representing a margin of 2.3% of revenue, according to the data concerning 2023 financial results just released by the company. ...

Irizar e-mobility announced on Linkedin that it going to supply 28 e-buses within a second BRT project in UK. In collaboration with Go Ahead London, the Spanish OEM is set to roll out a fleet of 28 Irizar ie tram (12-meter version). This initiative is part of the innovative Fastrack service provided...

Solaris showed during its 2024 press conference, held online this morning, the first renderings of the future intercity bus platform, set to be "ready for commercial activities in 2026", as said Solaris CEO Javier Iriarte.

Van Hool is reportedly willing to concentrate entirely on coaches and trailers, but the production of those coaches would largely move from Belgium to northern Macedonia. That means potentially hundreds of jobs will be lost in Koningshooikt. What is odd, Van Hool has recently launched a new platform...

The first Credobus Electronell has left the factory. It's the first full electric bus by Hungarian manufacturer Credobus, that claims the bus empty weight "does not reach 11.5 tons, which is unique among e-buses with a metal frame structure". The concept of Credobus is based on a metal frame struc...

Alexander Dennis announces increase of warrantable energy throughput of its next-generation electric buses (launched in late 2023) to 1.6GWh maximum. “The Enviro100EV “big small bus” and Enviro400EV “crowd-shifter” have a future-proof battery system designed to maximise use before battery repl...

At Mobility Move live in Berlin on 5-7 March 2024, BorgWarner showcases its battery portfolio tailored for electric buses. The company’s three-pillar approach emphasizes innovation, sustainability, and strategic partnerships. BorgWarner has recently announced that it entered a deal with BYD’s ...

"The recent Bundestag decision to cut funding for the purchase of buses with alternative drives in the Climate and Transformation Fund is causing significant uncertainty among all market participants. Just now, when the market ramp-up of e-buses is not yet complete and 88 percent of city buses are b...

Mobility Move is live until 7th March at the Hotel Estrel in Berlin. The one underway is the most successful edition of the event promoted by the VDV and until 2022 named ElekBu. 1,400 attendees are expected by 90 exhibitors. Mobility Move 2024 in Berlin: MAN and BYD MAN showed the autonomous b...

Solaris is using the opportunity of Mobility Move 2024 in Berlin to present a new version of its best-seller, i.e. the Solaris Urbino 12 electric bus featuring an innovative propulsion design and new batteries providing “an impressive range”, ...

From September 17-22, 2024, IAA Transportation returns to Hannover. In recent weeks we have written about how the incoming edition includes an interesting novelty on the bus&coach side, as there will be an outdoor theme park dedicated to bus&coach. In recent years, the vocation of the Hannov...

Zero emission buses adopted in the US have been growing 12 percent in 2023 according to CALSTART survey Zeroing on Zero-emission buses (that takes into account electric buses both ordered and deployed). A total of 6,147 vehicles are counted for the US (dated as of September 2023). In 2023, still acc...

The German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport Affairs (BMDV) announced it is investing a further 53.4 million euros in the procurement of buses with climate-friendly drive systems and the associated infrastructure. Parliamentary State Secretary Daniela Kluckert today presented funding certif...

Hess announced the awarding of a contract for 13 double-articulated trolleybuses from Bernmobil. The vehicles are to be deployed on the Bern - Köniz/Schliern line 10 from summer 2026 and offer around 30 percent more capacity than conventional articulated trolleybuses. The Swiss operator has also or...

Wiener Linien is set to introduce ten hydrogen-powered buses on Line 39A by the end of 2025. Following a European tender process, CaetanoBus, in collaboration with Toyota, emerged as the successful bidder to supply the H2.City Gold buses.

Scania BEV Low Entry Class II bus made in cooperation with Castrosua (on 75CS body) is ready for the Spanish market. Following the presentation held at Busworld 2023, the vehicles was showcased in Spain during an event with customers and media at the Swedish brand's facilities in Torrejón de Ardoz (...

On 27th February 2024 our editorial staff had the opportunity to visit Forsee Power‘s industrial plant in Poitiers, France. Situated on a brownfield investment dated 2018, the facility was previously used as a diesel engine piston plant. Our visit offered a glimpse into a facility transformed ...

An Iveco Bus Crossway – the best-selling Class II in Europe – has been retrofitted with a hydrogen fuel cell by a GCK Mobility workshop at the Cournon (Puy-de-Dôme) site in France. The vehicle has been approved for road production, which will enable its mass production. Iveco’s in-...

Record fuel consumption for the new generation of the Alexander Dennis Enviro400EV, which completed the Zemo Partnership’s zero-emission bus testing and certification program with an energy consumption of only 0.67 kWh/km. A figure that actually makes it the most efficient electric double-deck...

Egyptian manufacturer Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles (MCV) has developed the C127 EV as new electric bus for the German market.

Jean-Marc Gales, Wrightbus CEO, is quoted by Bus & Coach Buyer as saying that "The concept is ready, the predevelopment work has been done, so we are confident we can launch it in 2026". It's not yet clear if the vehicles will be in-house built or realized in cooperation with bodybuilder partners.

MAN rolls out battery repair centres in Europe: two first hubs are already in operation, in Germany and Spain - more are to follow in Europe in 2024 and 2025. Plans provide for battery centers to be established in 2024 and 2025 in Italy, Denmark/Norway, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Poland ...

Sold out. Busworld Turkey, scheduled to take place at the Istanbul Expo Center May 29-31, is sold out. The tenth edition of the event-an important milestone-will welcome as many as 157 exhibitors and aims to surpass the already excellent numbers of the 2022 edition: 11,000 visitors from 84 countries...

Second flash-charging contract in a short period of time for the ‘couple’ Hess – Hitachi Energy in Italy. After Genoa, the city of Vicenza has awarded a contract for 16 Hess lighTram TOSA (thanks to 19 million euros of State financing). City public transport carrier SVT will deploy...

First 2024 issue of Sustainable Bus magazine is out today. The expansion to four issues per year, vs three yearly issues published so far, is a significant milestone for Sustainable Bus magazine, made possible by the support and interest demonstrated by our readership. For those seeking access to ph...

Fuel cell bus project dismissed, a fleet of 120 12-meter e-buses that won’t be expanded (and rumors of intention to sell them have quite strong). This is, according to German media, the situation facing ESWE Verkehr, public transport operator of the city of Wiesbaden. The Wiesbaden-based trans...

The European electric bus market experienced a remarkable surge in registrations in 2023, with a 53% growth in 2023. A total of 6,354 electric buses were registered across EU27, Norway, Iceland, and Switzerland. Notably, over 42% of city buses now operate as zero-emission vehicles. But let’s s...

Yutong U12 battery-electric bus has been undergoing extreme cold challenge in Kirkenes, Norway, during testing activities conducted by the manufacturer. “In a live test of 105 km, Yutong U12 showed a power consumption of 1.56 kWh/km in an ice and snow environment in Kirkenes where the temperat...

The European e-bus market saw a 53% growth in registrations last year: in 2023 as many as 6,354 were registered in EU27 + Norway, Iceland and Switzerland. Over 42% of city buses were zero-emission (BEV and Hydrogen), quickly growing from 15% in 2020 (tripling in three years). Overall, 13,466 buses w...

The year 2024 promises a plethora of trade shows and exhibitions focusing on the latest advancements in public transport and bus technology. These events, spread across various locations, offer valuable opportunities for industry professionals and enthusiasts to gather, share knowledge, and witness ...

After 3 years of being conducted digitally, the Sustainable Bus Tour 2024 will be built around two in-person conference that are set to be held within Next Mobility Exhibition (May) in Milan and the Euro Mobility Expo in Strasbourg (October), two of the main public transport exhibitions in Europe pl...

Alexander Dennis is ready to introduce its next-generation electric bus technology to North America following its launch in the UK and the Asia-Pacific region in late 2023. Sound Transit, which provides regional transit in the Seattle metropolitan area, has placed a firm order for 33 zero-emission E...

BorgWarner has signed a strategic relationship agreement with BYD subsidiary FinDreams Battery. BorgWarner will be in charge of manufacturing LFP battery packs for commercial vehicles utilizing FinDreams Battery blade cells (presented in 2020) in Europe, the Americas, and select regions of Asia Paci...

The Tallinn municipal government has decided to invest in 40 battery-powered trolleybuses and upgrade the contact network, is reported on local media ERR.ee, mentioned also by trade agency electrive. This decision comes after 24 years of transitioning from trolleybuses to buses (with heavy commitmen...

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