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Sidney is increasingly green, Sidney is increasingly electric. Yes, because the city’s e-bus fleet expands and gets the largest e-depot in Australia. And so do the commuters, seeing more green power on Sidney’s inner-West urban streets via Transit Systems currently operating 15 electric buses – with...

Iveco Bus is launching a full electric Crossway Low Entry and is ready to offer mild hybrid modules on Urbanway, Crealis and Crossway Low Entry range. On the Crossway the mild hybrid solution will be offered also combined with gas-drive. The mild hybrid module will be available to order by the end o...

Siemens’ charging technology infrastructure for eco-friendly buses made in Australia. Yes, because the Australian manufacturer Custom Denning has chosen Siemens electric bus charging stations and digital depot management solution for its fleet of fully Australian designed and built Element el...

A picture of the development of hydrogen technology in public transport, and an informed view on future scenarios. These were the goals pursued by the webinar “Hydrogen buses. Their time is… now?”, organized within the Sustainable Bus Tour 2021 and broadcasted Thursday 14th October...

ABB will enable the transition to sustainable e-bus operations in the city of Basel by 2027 as part of a large order awarded by Industrielle Werke Basel (IWB). The contract is part of Basel Public Transport’s (BVB) efforts to convert its entire bus fleet to battery-electric operations. In one ...

CNH Industrial just announced that it will temporarily close “several of its European agricultural, commercial vehicle and powertrain manufacturing facilities in response to ongoing disruptions to the procurement environment and shortages of core components, especially semiconductors”. CNH Industria...

Hitachi Energy is, from today, the new brand name of the formerly known Hitachi ABB Power Grids. The business has renewed its Purpose to «advancing a sustainable energy future for all». New brand was announced in summer 2021. Through its Sustainability 2030 strategic plan, Hitachi Ene...

Île-de-France Mobilités turns to the ‘alliance’ between Van Hool, Kiepe Electric and Alstom for the delivery of a batch of 24-meter bi-articulated e-buses. They’ll be ’employed’ on two new BRT lines and will be the first 100% electric vehicles of such size in the Île-de...

A large fire event in Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen (SBB)’s depot, in Gaisberg, destroyed 25 buses on Thursday 30th September. A few days ago, a first assessment by the police, reported on many German media, said that the fire could have been caused by an electric bus during charging procedure. As...

Ebusco announces intention to launch Initial Public Offering and admission to listing on Euronext Amsterdam. Through the IPO the company targets to raise approximately €300 million as gross proceeds. The net proceeds of the IPO will mainly be used to fund investments in Ebusco’s international ...

One thousand five hundred electric buses in the next three years. A turn in the name of electricity and sustainability for Bengaluru, capital of the Indian state of Karnataka: the local government is ready to purchase 1,500 e-buses over the next three years for local public transport. The administra...

Daimler truck and bus business spin-off: today, at the virtual Extraordinary General Meeting of Daimler AG (ticker symbol DAI), the shareholders decided by an overwhelming majority on the historic realignment of the company. The spin-off of the truck and bus business (announced in early 2021) and th...

Sixteen new electric buses operated Keolis to serve about 60 thousand residents, in the name of the fight against carbon dioxide emissions and sustainable mobility. It’s happening in Australia’s Queensland, where the state’s transport and highways division has commissioned Keolis D...

The new Iveco Group is ready to take off following the spin-off from CNH Industrial that is set to take place in early 2022. The logo has been unveiled today. The bus business of the new group will be managed by Domenico Nucera, with Gerrit Marx as group’s CEO. «The color grey evokes a sense [...

It’s time for a roadshow in Slovenia, Spain and Austria for the eTrain developed by Austrian startup eVersum. The company is ready to present its innovative applications in several European markets. The first prototype launched in operation is the eShuttle. eVersum is active in the manufacturi...

Volvo BZL Electric is the name of the new battery-electric bus chassis range launched by the Swedish manufacturer and focused on Australian, Mexican and British markets. With this new launch, Volvo is now able to offer a battery-electric bus chassis to the UK, therefore debuting as a new player in a...

Karsan e-ATA electric bus range has been launched: 10, 12 and 18-meter vehicles have been presented today during an online event: now the e-bus range from the Turkish manufacturer ranges from 6 to 18 meters, being 6-meter and 8-meter Karsan Jest Electric and Karsan Atak Electric already in productio...

Wrightbus GB Kite Hydroliner and GB Kite Electroliner. Besides the double decker buses (BEV and FCEV), now Wrightbus is launching a couple of single deck vehicles, also based on battery-electric and fuel cell driveline. Both vehicles are expected to go into production in the first quarter of 2022. W...

Sales of electric buses in the EU increased by 18.4% year on year from 2019 to 2020, according to ACEA’s figures. By contrast, the proportion of diesel engines fell by almost 10% in that time. “Overall, the European market for electric buses was more than 2,000 vehicles last year. And th...

Electric powertrain experts Equipmake and Spanish bus builder Beulas introduce Jewel E, a full electric double decker bus with claimed range of up to 250 miles. Battery capacity can reach (optionally) 543 kWh. The new electric double decker (which is the electric variant of Beulas Jewel model) will ...

National Express is in talks to buy Stagecoach. The takeover would result in a all-share deal to create a business with a fleet of 36,000 buses and coaches. The news has been confirmed by National Express itself, and is widely reported on the UK press. Stagecoach would be valued at about £445m, repr...

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced that all new buses ordered by Transport for London (TfL) for the capital will now be zero-emission. 950 zero-emission buses are already on the road or on order in London. With the market now more mature and expanding in the UK, TfL can guarantee that it wil...

MAN Truck & Bus launches NewMAN strategy, a corporate plan focused on zero emission mobility, autonomous vehicles and digital solutions. In a press note, the Munich-based group underlines that the company «is focusing on zero-emission technologies in its role as a “smart innovator”, with a parti...

The opportunities, challenges and outlooks related to fuel cell bus adoption will be put under the spotlight at the second and last webinar of the Sustainable Bus Tour 2021, which will be live broadcasted on 14th October at 3 p.m. CEST, entitled: ‘Hydrogen buses. Their time is... now?’.

Public transport in Europe show clear signs of recovery. But rates are uneven: «Traffic in Switzerland, Germany and France is close to pre-virus levels, being just about 10% down. Passenger volumes in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom are still significantly lower, by around 25 t...

Quantron is set to launch an electric 12-metre low-floor bus named Quantron 12. The news is reported on electrive.com. Two versions of the model will be offered: one battery-electrically powered (available from end 2021), while the fuel cell one is set to be on market from spring 2022. Still accordi...

543 km in 48 hourse on a single charge. It’s the record mileage reached by an Iveco E-Way operated in Germany by Verkerhrsbetriebe Bachstein (based in Lower Saxony). The performance has been certified by TÜV Nord, Iveco Bus points out. Carried out on the initiative of the company Verkerhrsbetr...

Keolis Sweden has ordered 75 MAN Lion’s City 18 E for operations in Gothenburg and Stockholm. Delivery is planned from Q2 to Q4 2022. Keolis has also added an option for an additional 75 buses for delivery in 2022 and 2023. The first order for MAN electric bus was also coming from Sweden. This is [&...

Ebusco has been awarded a five-year international framework agreement with Transdev for the delivery of electric buses. Under this international framework agreement, Ebusco will be eligible to be a primary supplier to Transdev in France, Germany and the Netherlands where the public transport company...

HEAG mobilo, a transport operator in Darmstadt (Germany), is planning to replace almost its entire bus fleet with vehicles that are 100 percent electrically driven in the next four years. On 27 August 2021, 24 fully-electric Mercedes eCitaro city buses officially began operations. This marks the fir...

Liverpool City Region is first to select ADL’s H2.0 second-generation hydrogen bus (named ADL Enviro400FCEV) with order for 20 double deckers. The Enviro400FCEV is powered by a Ballard fuel cell power module through the Voith Electrical Drive System (the same drive adopted by Wrightbus). The ne...

ChargePoint, a leading electric vehicle charging network operating in North America and Europe, today announced it acquired ViriCiti, a leading provider of electrification solutions for eBus and commercial fleets. ChargePoint acquired ViriCiti for a total purchase price of approximately €75 mi...

Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich (VBZ) has commissioned PSI Transcom GmbH to implement the depot management system PSItraffic/DMS. In the future, the new system will monitor and control around 240 buses and 260 streetcars in a total of eight garages and depots across all operations. In addition, almost ...

At First Bus, and across the industry, the NBS was warmly welcomed, as was the £3 billion financial commitment from the Government that it promised. If the sector works effectively together and is given what it needs by the government, we believe that the strategy could be fundamental in supporting ...

Dana invests in Switch Mobility and becomes the company’s e-drivetrains supplier. Switch Mobility, subsidiary of Ashok Leyland, has signed a strategic agreement with Dana Incorporated (Dana). Formal launch of Switch Mobility was announced in July 2021. Andy Palmer (former Aston Martin boss) ha...

Paris, a second round of contracts – following a second maxi tender (the first one was awarded in 2019 for 400 million euros and a potential of 800 e-buses) – has been signed by RATP with electric bus manufacturers in order to achieve the goal of transitioning a consistent part of the Pa...

Bluebus is expected to deliver up to 158 electric buses in Paris, following the maxi tender awarded in 2019 and the 2021 framework agreement just signed for a maximum period of 4 years. The French company won the tender together with Heuliez Bus / Iveco and Alstom. Earlier this year, also in the fra...

Irizar e-mobility has signed an agreement with the RATP (La Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens) to supply as many as 113 electric buses in Paris. They will be new generation Irizar ie bus model 100% zero emissions electric buses. Irizar is staying firmly committed to the French market. In 2016,...

One hundred Toyota hydrogen buses are running around Olympic Tokyo. But costs are an issue. As the Financial Times points out, «A fuel cell bus from Toyota costs ¥100m ($900,000) for a six-year lease. A diesel bus costs ¥24m ($220,000) and has a useful life of 15 years». Fuel cell buses during the O...

In spring 2022, Ebusco will supply the very first fully-composite, electric buses in the Netherlands. Transdev Nederland has ordered 39 Ebusco 3.0 buses, the manufacturer says, for their city and intercity routes in the Gooi and Vecht region (also 28 VDL e-buses are going into operations). Delivery ...

Anaheim, in California, has turned to Arrival for the supply of five electric buses. It’s the first deal in the US – and the first deal at all – for the Arrival Bus. In partnership with the City of Anaheim, the Anaheim Transportation Network (ATN) has been awarded a two-million-dol...

The governments of Canada and Nova Scotia are investing in e-buses and charging infrastructures with the goal of kicking off the electrification of Halifax transit bus fleet. 60 zero emissions vehicles are expected. The municipality is pursuing full electrification of the bus fleet (340 vehicles) by...

De Lijn is ready to order 44 plug-in hybrid buses and to upgrade 280 hybrid buses into e-hybrid vehicles. The Flemish Mobility minister Lydia Peeters commented: “Together with De Lijn we make giant step towards emission-free public transport”, as quoted in a press note from the the cabinet of Flemis...

Alexander Dennis Limited and BYD UK have signed a framework agreement with the National Transport Authority of Ireland (NTA) for the delivery of up to 200 BYD ADL Enviro200EV zero emission battery-electric buses. An initial firm order for 45 buses was agreed at the same time, with delivery commencin...

In Ireland, the National Transport Authority (NTA) in conjunction with Bus Éireann has recently unveiled three new hydrogen double-deck buses that will initially be used on commuter services in the Greater Dublin Area. The three fuel cell buses were recently purchased by the NTA and are servicing on...

New battery supply agreement for Akasol in the bus world. The German company announces a new deal signed with a «major bus and commercial vehicle manufacturer from Belgium» with a total volume in the mid-double-digit million euro range. Although not directly mentioned, the manufacturer should be Van...

Go-Ahead’s entire fleet of 5,000 UK buses will be converted to zero emission vehicles by 2035. It’s just one of the pillars of the company’s strategy to reach carbon neutrality by 2045. The Go-Ahead Group sets out a strategy to lead the transport industry in carbon reduction by achieving...

In the Netherlands, the Province of North Holland has launched the first emission-free bus concession in the country, operated by Transdev (formerly operating under the name Connexxion). Zero emission buses from VDL and from Ebusco (that will be delivering the 3.0 model) are expected to be on the ro...

Siemens has been awarded a contract by Bernmobil, the Swiss capital’s public transport company, to supply charging infrastructure solutions for the operation of 14 new electric buses (they are going to be delivered by Irizar e-mobility). These are to be deployed on Lines 19 and 21 beginning in early...

Toyota brand is set to debut in the European e-bus market. Zero-emission buses manufactured by CaetanoBus in Portugal will indeed be co-branded with Toyota, the two companies outline today in a press note. CaetanoBus and Toyota strengthened their strategic alliance in December 2020, when a strategic...

Irizar e-mobility together with its partner in Switzerland Jebsen & Jessen Industrial Solutions Schweiz AG is going to supply a total of 18 buses with operators Bernmobil and BUS Ostschweiz in Switzerland and Lichtenstein respectively. Irizar electric bus contracts in Bern and Lichtenstein The S...

The VDL electric bus fleet operated in Amsterdam city transport by GVB is going to be enriched with 44 articulated vehicles. These are scheduled for delivery in early 2022. Today the VDL e-bus ‘contribution’ in GVB fleet is made of 31 Citea electric. Amsterdam is working to further reduc...

Unexpected turn of events in Genoa (Italy): according to leaks reported on the Italian magazine AUTOBUS, public transport operator AMT Genova has cancelled the awarding of the 30 e-bus tender to the Chinese manufacturer Alfabus. This leaves the first place to Solaris, which had come second in the fi...

Switch Mobility announced its formal launch on July 2nd 2021. Behind the name lies the new electrified commercial vehicles group backed by the Indian Hinduja Group. Switch Mobility combines the electric commercial vehicle operations of Ashok Leyland and the former bus manufacturer Optare company (a ...

Not only fuel cell buses: Wrightbus portfolio is ready to feature also the battery-electric double decker bus StreetDeck Electroliner. The product launch has been announced by the Northern Ireland-based manufacturer a few days ago. It joins the hydrogen bus Streetdeck FCEV, announced in late 2018 an...

By the end of 2021 there will be 1,000 electric buses in operation onto Moscow’s roads. For 2.5 years of operation, electric buses have already traveled more than 40 million kilometers and carried more than 90 million passengers. “Starting this year, by the decision of the Mayor of Moscow, we ...

The first long distance coaches running on biogas will operate the Stockholm-Oslo and the Amsterdam-Brussels routes. In a collaboration between Scania and Iveco, mobility provider Flixbus and gas supplier Gasum, the gas-powered coaches are expected to reduce climate impact and contribute to a fossil...

«It’s not the bus, which is a mean to an end. The issue is how to power the bus, how to organize the infrastructures around the depots. This is the big planning exercise». Take Jo Bamford words for it. He is chairman and owner of Wrightbus, the North Irish bus manufacturer on the verge of bankruptcy...

Lothian Buses’ first four BYD ADL Enviro400EV electric double deckers are funded as a flagship project of SP Energy Networks’ £20m Green Economy Fund. SP Energy Networks is part of the ScottishPower group, a Principal Partner for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) to be held in Gla...

Planning services, change management, training programmes jointly offered by an infrastructure provider together with a public transport company with large expertise in the deployment of zero emission buses. Hitachi Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, and the Chinese Shenzhen Bus Group (SZ...

Zaragoza City Council and Avanza turns to Irizar e-mobility electric buses to renew their public transport bus fleet. A total of 68 units, 51 of 12 metres and the remaining 17 articulated vehicles, will be purchased. These buses will be rolled out into service gradually, from the final semester of ...

Swiss operator Bernmobil has awarded Irizar e-mobility a contract to supply 14 battery-powered articulated buses. These vehicles are to be used on routes 19 and 21 from the beginning of 2023 and will reduce CO2 emissions by a further 1,200 tonnes per year, Bernmobil states in a press note. At the sa...

The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) commits up to $400 million in the City of Ottawa’s 450 zero-emission bus expansion. Such pledge stands out for being the largest-ever single increase in zero-emission buses for public transit in Canada. The CIB and the City of Ottawa, Canada capital city, are pro...

Rimini’s Metromare is switching gear, the supply of new-generation trolleybuses to ATM Milano has been completed, while other vehicles are making their debut in service in Emilia-Romagna region. The first half of 2021 in Italy has been anything but dull as far as trolleybus projects are concer...

Alexander Dennis has unveiled its first zero-emissions double deck bus for North America. The Enviro500EV CHARGE for North America, 13.7-meter long, is an outcome of the takeover of the UK-based manufacturer by NFI Group, as the vehicle joins NFI portfolio of zero emission buses. The ‘CHARGE&#...

Hitachi Europe and Arrival have partnered to deliver new bus and infrastructure solutions to the European bus industry. The non-exclusive partnership combines Hitachi’s digital and operational capabilities with Arrival’s products, which have the goal of being competitive in price with fossil fuel al...

600,000 e-buses on the road globally today (39% of new sales and 16% of the global fleet). 98% of e-bus sold in 2020 were in China, but by 2025, electric bus sales outside of China are expected to hit 14,000, up from 5,000 in 2020. «Buses and two- and three-wheelers are the biggest near-term opportu...

Nine Irizar zero-emission electric buses will start to operate shortly in the city of Barcelona on line H16 (Pg. Zona Franca – Fòrum Campus Besòs). These units are in addition to the four Irizar buses that have been operating in the City since 2019. With the entry into service of the new ...

Something is happening in the largest bus market in Europe. It looks like the German electric bus market switched gear last year. We discussed with Werner Overkamp, Vice President of the VDV (the Association of German Transport Companies) and Chairman of the Board of Management of the Division Bus,...

First Bus has chosen Glasgow to transform a bus depot into UK’s largest EV charging hub. There will be space to charge up to 300 EV buses on site. The project, partially funded by Scottish Ultra-Low Emission Bus (SULEB), will see over 150 EV charging units installed at depot. Phase One of the ...

350 e-buses up for grabs in Belgium, where public transport company De Lijn is about to issue a tender with value up to 230 million euros (vehicles + charging infrastructures). 60 vehicles are expected to be operation within 2021, according to report on The Brussels Times. Flemish carrier has been h...

Around a quarter of all opportunity charging sessions start when the battery is already over 80% charged, according to the latest industry report released by ViriCiti. According to a previously released study, ViriCiti found that accessories consume 28% of e-bus energy. The Dutch telematics company ...

29 new Volvo 7900 Electric Articulated have just been put in operation in Aarhus in Denmark. The second biggest city in Denmark is the latest of several cities to implement electric buses on a larger scale. In June 2020 the six largest Danish municipalities set a commitment to buy only zero emission...

Today VDL Bus & Coach unveiled the VDL Citea new generation during a web event addressed at specialized press. According to the information previously released, the new product family is the outcome of a new concept entirely developed on an electric driveline. And, for the first time, it will ho...

A three-year demonstration called NAVETTY is starting on the ArianeGroup industrial French site in west of Paris. Theproject is supported by VEDECOM – R&D institute for energy transition in mobility-, ArianeGroup, public transport company branch Transdev Autonomous Transport Systems, auton...

The Utah Transit Authority (UTA) and Park City Transit have awarded GILLIG a $44.2 million contract for 44 battery electric buses, with an option of 95 additional buses over five years. The contract includes 16 plug-in charging systems and four high-power on-route chargers. E-buses headed to Ogden B...

BYD has started the delivery of the 50-units e-bus order secured in Turin (Italy). It is part of a framework agreement for 100 e-buses. This latest major fleet order for BYD comes as a result of its long-established partnership with GTT – Turin’s principal Public Transport Operator – since first sup...

25-meter new electric buses are set to be in operation in Basel. The Swiss bus manufacturer Hess has been awarded a part of the international electric bus tender issued by Basel operator BVB (Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe) in Switzerland. In the framework of the same tender, 54 vehicles have been awarded...

The 500th BYD ADL electric bus has reached its destination, namely the Go-Ahead London fleet for Transport for London. Orders for the next 500 BYD ADL electric buses have already been confirmed for public transport operators across the UK, the producers say. BYD and ADL combine their strengths to of...

550 km on a single charge. It’s the result achieved by the Lion’s City E 12 on a test monitored by TÜV SÜD, as announced by the manufacturer in a press note. MAN Truck & Bus expects that by 2025 half of all new MAN city buses will run on alternative drive technologies. In order [&hel...

Below, a contribution fromClaudius Jehle, CEO of volytica diagnostics GmbH*.It’s the third of a series of knowledge articles (a cycle, indeed) on a series of topics around Li-Ion Batteries,written by Claudius and other field-related experts.Feedbacks, questions and contributions...

SASA Bolzano has inaugurated its batch of 12 new Solaris Urbino hydrogen, that will be powered thanks to a hydrogen filling station installed within the public transport company’s depot. Thanks to this latest supply, the Italian city features today one of the largest fuel cell bus fleets in Eu...

Keolis has launched a second 100% electric Bus Rapid Transit line on the Basque Coast, in France. The e-BRT was inaugurated on 26th April 2021 and it’s part of the Chronoplus transport network, linking Tarnos to Bayonne, in the south-west of France, on behalf of the Basque Country Public Trans...

676 e-buses were in operation in Germany at the end of 2020 (over half of them were registered in 2020). And the purchase of further 3,100 e-buses is already planned. And there are already concrete, publicly known plans for a further almost 4,800 e-buses. Such figures are collected in the lately pub...

The implementation of three electric bus depots is the outcome of the cooperation established in Scotland by Zenobe Energy with McGill’s. The partnership will see the implementation of three fully electric bus depots, servicing Dundee and the wider Glasgow areas of Inchinnan and Johnstone. The opera...

Enel X enters the Australian market bringing to the country its e-bus charging platform. Enel X will then work with public transport authorities and bus operators that are replacing traditional diesel buses with cleaner and more sustainable electric buses. The Enel X e-bus platform «includes advanc...

Alexander Schabert is Co-founder & CCO at ViriCiti, a Dutch telematics company founded in 2012 that shortly became a market leader in fleet monitoring solutions in the United States and Europe, with over 3,500 buses and chargers connected to its platform. ViriCiti is sponsor of the Sustainable B...

Yesterday Daimler Truck AG and Volvo Group officially outlined the strategy beyond the fuel cell joint venture Cellcentric, first announced in april 2020. The roadmap is part of an industry-first commitment to accelerate the use of hydrogen-based fuel cells for long-haul trucks and beyond (also long...

Daimler Buses has in fact partnered with the GUW+ model project: in a new rectifier substation operated by ÜSTRA Hannoversche Verkehrsbetriebe AG, a stationary energy storage unit has been implemented which uses battery systems previously installed in fully electric eCitaro urban buses. The developm...

EMT Madrid has awarded the tender for the purchase of 520 new CNG buses with planned deliveries for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023, as well as the tender for the purchase of 50 new electric buses. CNG buses have been awarded to Solaris, Scania and Evobus, while e-bus contract were signed with Irizar ...

The launch of the new BZL electric bus chassis is the latest novelty from Volvo Buses. The group is leading the European e-bus market as of mid-2021, mainly thanks to the huge 145-units delivery in Gothenburg. We had a talk with Anna Westerberg, who has been covering the position of president of Vol...

Lion Electric has received a conditional purchase order for 1,000 all-electric LionC school buses from Student Transportation of Canada, a subsidiary of Student Transportation of America, a north-American leader in student transportation, safety and fleet management services, whose controlling share...

Cummins has been accepted into ‘Business Ambition for 1.5°C’ campaign and ‘Race to zero’, two influential groups advocating for climate action ahead of the global COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland (U.K.) starting Oct. 31. Cummins advocates against climate change ...

Snam, Toyota and CaetanoBus have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), with the aim of starting a «collaboration to promote and accelerate the introduction of hydrogen-based mobility». The companies signing the agreement – the energy infrastructure company Snam and the subsidiary Snam4Mo...

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The 9-meter Urbino 9 LE electric joins Solaris electric bus family. The new vehicle represents a new add in a battery-electric range that goes now from 9 to 24 meter. The world première of the new electric vehicle took place at the end of September 2021. The 9-metre, low-entry Urbino 9 LE Elect...

Transition to EV fleets is underway: optimization of charging becomes paramount and artificial intelligence is there to help. That’s the business where GridBeyond is involved. The company has indeed developed an AI-powered platform which has the goal of accelerating the transition to a net-zer...

Ten years of e-bus activities in South America: this is Enel X’s ‘business card’ when it comes to the public transport business, a field where the utility group has developed a dedicated range of offers also involving innovative and tailor-made business models. This strategy is also involving Europe...

In December, 22 e-buses will be on Drammen’s roads, in Norway. Two of them are articulated vehicles and will be operating on line 3. There will also be a new, and completely electric, line between Lierbyen school and Gulskogen! The charging stations for the electric buses are now under install...

Cummins and Bustech, Australia’s largest supplier of transit buses designed, engineered and manufactured in Australia, announced an agreement to build the next generation Bustech XDi low floor transit bus using Cummins zero-emission battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell technologies. The agreement...

CaetanoBus was selected as the supplier to deliver four hydrogen buses to Bielefeld’s Transport Company in Germany. The operator is moBiel GmbH, and these will be the first hydrogen buses in the history of the company. They’ll be tested on a bus line in the city. The investment will be subsidi...

Dutch telematics company ViriCiti announces it has started rolling out the largest Smart Charging implementation in the public transportation sector (with the exception of China). In total 163 charger connectors (both plugin & pantograph) managed by Qbuzz are connected to the ViriCiti dashboard....

An order for up to 50 electric buses Heuliez GX 337 Elec has been achieved by the French brand in the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolitan area, where public transport operations are managed by Keolis Pays d’Aix. The first four vehicles went into service at the beginning of 2020. Now a new orde...

Keolis Transit America wins a new bus contract in Southern California for the operations of 114 buses, mainly fueled with natural gas (87 vehicles). The contract has begun on 1 October and has a length of 5 years, with the option to extend it for an additional five years. As of end 2019, 20 per cent...

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One hundred Yutong electric buses coming (soon) to GTT Torino, in Italy? Not really. The contract has been “Cancelled after verification”, the public transport operator GTT says. The vehicles had been assigned to the Chinese giant Yutong. Now checks are being done on the second bidder, B...

Autocar Expo 2020 in Lyon, France, has been cancelled. The exhibition was scheduled for next week, on 14 to 16t October. The decision is due to the passage into the maximum alert zone of the city of Lyon, announced on 8 October 2020 by Olivier Véran, Minister of Health. The news is reported on the F...

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