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Mercedes eIntouro is undergoing winter testing at the Artic Circle

The Mercedes eIntouro, unveiled in late 2024 and set for deployment by 2026, is currently being winter tested in Rovaniemi, Finland, at the Arctic Circle, with temperatures down to minus 30 degrees. The bus will be presented at Busworld 2025. Its launch marks the debut of Daimler Buses in the nascen...

India, BYD receives new +2,000-units chassis order from Olectra

BYD India has signed a new order with its long-term partner, Olectra Greentech Limited (OGL), for 2,325 electric bus chassis. The order includes models K9, C9, and K7, reinforcing the strong collaboration between the two companies. In addition to this, BYD India secured an additional order for 50 K7...

TMB tests a UNVI double-decker e-bus prior to delivery of 18 units

TMB Barcelona has been testing a double-decker electric bus by UNVI, prior to delivery of 18 units awarded to the same bodybuilder last year. Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) launched a tender in July 2024 for 23 new battery-electric buses, which by the end of 2025 will replace other vehi...

Further 11 Irizar electric buses headed to Luxembourg

The Voyages Emilie Weber group is once again buying Irizar electric buses. This time the Luxembourg-based transport company is acquiring eleven ie bus units, which are added to the twenty-one units the group acquired in 2019. In September 2024 Irizar has launched the new i3 intercity e-bus model at ...

Irizar completed delivery of 10 e-buses in Vitoria-Gasteiz

In December 2024, TUVISA, the public transport company in Vitoria-Gasteiz (north of Spain), took delivery of ten new zero-emission buses from Irizar. This includes six 18-meter articulated buses and four 12-meter articulated buses, which are now housed at the city’s Electromobility Centre. The buses...

We traveled to Lapland aboard Yutong’s T15E electric coach

On Sunday 8 December we packed our suitcase with warm clothes and flew to Oulu, Finland, to prepare for what Yutong defined as the “Extreme Cold Challenge”. Yes, because on Monday the 9th we left, heading to Rovaniemi, in Lapland, in the Arctic Circle. A journey approximately 220 kilometers long tha...

First Bus takes over RATP London and gets back to London

FirstGroup has signed an agreement to acquire RATP Dev Transit London for a value of 90 million pounds (around 108 million euros). In 2023, RATP London’s revenues reached 271 million pounds. The acquisition, as noted by trade media Bus & Coach Week, “will see the Group re-enter the L...

46 Solaris electric buses headed to Keolis in Sweden

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...

Iveco Bus will supply 32 electric articulated buses to De Lijn

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....

London, Go Ahead starts deploying the first Irizar e-buses in UK

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...

Ebusco has raised 36 million euros via right issue

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...

Solaris wins tender for 45 24-meter electric buses in Belgium

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...

New driverless project for Karsan: in Gothenburg from spring 2025

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...

Provisional insolvency proceedings for Quantron

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...

Hungary, Volánbusz to deploy further 20 Ikarus electric buses

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...

California, SamTrans procures 108 fuel cell buses from New Flyer

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...

Irizar launches new i3 intercity e-bus model at FIAA

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 ...

What we have seen at European Mobility Expo in Strasbourg

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:...

Electric bus, main fleets and projects around the world

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...

BYD has delivered 100 e-buses for operations in Uruguay

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...

Daimler Buses and ChargePoint have signed a collaboration agreement

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...

EQT and Kühne Holding take a 35% stake in Flix

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...

Scania founded Erinion, a company for charging systems

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...

Farhym, when bus interior design speaks Turkish (and Polish)

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)...

Sustainable Bus Awards 2025: check out the (14) finalists!

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...

On our visit in Zhengzhou, China, home of Yutong Bus & Coach

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...

Next Mobility Exhibition 2024 in Milan: what to expect?

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...

Olof Persson to replace Gerrit Marx as CEO of Iveco Group

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 ...

VDL Group, a 2023 in lights and shadows: bus&coach -33%

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...

955 zero emission buses funded in England through ZEBRA 2nd round

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...

“Next-level battery technology is just around the corner”: BorgWarner’s strategies for commercial vehicles, explained by R&D lead Martin Busche

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 ...

Mobility Move 2024: what we have seen in Berlin

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...

The first exhibitors at IAA Transportation 2024 have been announced

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...

Scania – Castrosua intercity e-bus presented to Spanish customers

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 (...

Wrightbus to launch a H2 coach in 2026

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.

Busworld Turkey: the 10th edition is sold out

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...

42% of the city buses registered in Europe in 2023 are zero emission

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...

A guide to public transport exhibitions 2024 in Europe

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 ...

24 electric Yutong for the city of Nottingham

Nottingham City Transport (NCT), the English city’s public transport operator, is set to welcome twenty-four new Yutong signature electric buses to its fleet, costing £400,000 each per unit. Source of pictures: Nottingham City Transport Yutong electric buses for Nottingham City Transport Yuton...

Iveco Bus to provide +400 e-buses in Rome

Iveco Bus has won its largest electric bus contract in Italy to date for the supply of 411 battery electric vehicles to the capital’s public transport operator ATAC. The manufacturer has also won 153 e-buses in Milan and 225 in Turin. The contract, signed today 17th January 2024, is worth more...

Van Hool secured a 112-units e-bus order from Qbuzz (NL)

Van Hool has secured a large order for 112 battery buses from Dutch public transport operator Qbuzz, (owned by Italian FS). This follows a previous order of 54 battery buses from Van Hool by Qbuzz landed in March 2023. The models involved in the order are Van Hool A13LE E (56 units; 45 + 3 […...

Solaris wins orders for 100 e-buses between Berlin and Madrid

Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), the Berlin public transport company, has placed an order for 50 Solaris Urbino 18 electric buses. The buses will be delivered in the years 2024 and 2025. The order can be extended by up to a further 650 articulated e-buses. In Madrid, EMT is going to receive 20 low-e...

Iveco Bus wins 153 e-buses in Milan

Iveco Bus will supply 153 electric buses to Atm Milan. The manufacturer has in fact won the 12-metre lot in the €120 million tender launched by Milan’s public transport company, on the strength of an industrial plan to electrify the entire fleet of 1,200 buses by 2030. By 2026, half the fleet ...

Singapore, LTA awarded 360 e-buses to BYD and Zhongtong

Singapore is on its way to launch its the first large-scale award of electric buses with charging infrastructure. Singapore Acting Minister for Transport Chee Hong Tat just announced two contracts to procure a total of 360 electric buses (with option for further 60 vehicles) and another two contract...

Volvo Buses, the first order for 15 electrics bodied by MCV

Volvo Buses has secured the first order for 15 Volvo 7900 Electric buses with MCV – Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles as coachbuilder, following the agreement made between the two companies in recent months and which we told you about. The order for the fifteen e-buses is placed by Luxembourg-...

End of public transport as we know it? Tune in on 14th December for a videoreporting dealing with on-demand transport and autonomous driving

The landscape of public transport is on the brink of transformation, as technology opens doors to unprecedented flexibility. In our upcoming videoreporting belonging to the Sustainable Bus Tour 2023 initiative, we delve into the intriguing topic: “End of public transport as we know it? On-dema...

Spotlight on the Citymood 12e by IIA: the VIDEO test drive

Manufactured in Flumeri, Southern Italy (some 100 km west of Naples), in one of the largest bus plants in Europe, the Menarini Citymood 12e, launched in late 2021, is the only standard size battery-electric bus featuring the ‘made in Italy’ label. It features a self-supporting steel fram...

Research forecasts 11-13% electric bus sales by 2025 in India

A share between 11 and 13% of new bus sales in 2025 are expected to be electric in India, according to a recent research by investment agency ICRA Limited. The penetration of zero-emission buses stood at 5-6 per cent during the first half of 2023. The Indian e-bus market witnessed a growth of 65% in...

Volvo to acquire battery business from Proterra

The voluntary bankruptcy proceedings of Proterra Inc. and Proterra Operating Company Inc are underway: in this context, Volvo Group has been selected as the highest bidder in an auction for the business and assets of the Proterra Powered unit, at a purchase price of $210 million. The transaction bet...

BKK Budapest issues tender for 50 electric buses

Budapest has plans to deploy 50 new e-buses, as a new procurement has just been launched. Budapest tram fleet is also being renewed: BKK and the Municipality of Budapest, as part of the Széchenyi Plan Plus programme, have purchased 51 new vehicles, of the Urbos 3 type built by the Spa...

Here it comes Temsa – CaetanoBus fuel cell coach

Temsa showcases at Busworld three models from its zero-emission product range at the Busworld Europe, starting with its intercity hydrogen bus, a collaborative project with CaetanoBus. The producer claims this vehicle is capable of covering a distance of 1,000 kilometers on a single refill. The vehi...

MAN, Iveco Bus and Setra win the Sustainable Bus Awards 2024

The Sustainable Bus Awards 2024 were handed over on October 6, 2023, amidst the glitz and glamour of the “Gala Night” at the Busworld Europe 2023 (Bruxelles Expo, 7-12 October). In the “Urban” category, the top accolade was bestowed upon the MAN Lion’s City 10 E. The MAN Lion’s City 10 E emerged as ...

The first MAN e-bus delivered outside Europe goes in South Africa

MAN has delivered its first complete electric bus in Africa, specifically in Cape Town. The Lion’s Explorer E vehicle delivered in South Africa is based on the new Lion’s Chassis E, which is scheduled to go into series production from 2024. This was anticipated by Head of Bus Barbaros Ok...

MAN has produced 1,000 electric buses so far

In mid-September, the 1,000th MAN Lion’s City E rolled off the production line at the MAN plant in Starachowice, Poland, the group states. In the future, the Lion’s City 12 E will be deployed in Madrid, as the vehicles has just been order by the transport company Auto Periferia S.A., a s...

90 Solaris hydrogen buses for the Venice Lagoon

The first Solaris hydrogen buses have arrived in Venice. The four vehicles are 12 meters long-the queen size for urban transport-and represent the green turnaround of the new Avm/Actv, the local public transport company, engaged in urban and suburban mainland. Hydrogen refueling will be provided at ...

Solaris wins 322 CNG buses and 110 mild hybrid in Rome

Solaris has won both lots of the tender called by Giubileo 2025 spa for a total of 110 hybrid articulated city buses and as many as 322 CNG vehicles, of which 244 are to be supplied immediately plus 78 are subject to the approval of ATAC‘s new Economic and Financial Plan. The news is reported ...

Proterra seeks Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Proterra has filed for Chapter 11 protection in a bid to reinvigorate its financial standing. While navigating this process, the company is committed to maintaining normal business operations and harnessing the opportunity to optimize its product lines. Reuters noted that ”Proterra, whose shares nea...

Solaris has just delivered 10 Urbino 12 hydrogen in Germany

In recent weeks, Solaris has delivered 10 hydrogen buses to two German customers from the Upper Bavaria region. 5 Urbino 12 hydrogen were delivered to the carrier Busreisen Ettenhuber GmbH, and another 5 to Martin Geldhauser GmbH & Co. KG. The buses are scheduled to enter regular service this fa...

Ebusco, new contract in Munich: 28 18-meter buses for MVG

Ebusco wins another contract from Stadtwerke München for 28 Ebusco 3.0 18-metre buses. MVG already has Ebusco 2.2 and 3.0 buses in operation. SWM has ordered the low-floor articulated buses with a particularly large battery pack (>500 kWh) for MVG. Ebusco to deliver buses in Munich (again) The buses...

411 electric buses up for grabs in Rome

ATAC has issued a long-awaited tender for as many as 411 electric buses. Being more specific: 396 12-metre and 15 18-metre vehicles. The tender is partly financed by the carrier’s budget funds and partly by the NextGenerationEU. Estimated value for the operation? 368.58 million euros. The dead...

Cagliari to receive 98 new e-buses from Solaris

CTM Cagliari has selected Solaris as the supplier for 98 electric buses of the Urbino electric model. The order includes 80 units of twelve-meter vehicles and 18 units of articulated buses. This contract is part of a framework agreement signed in 2023 with Italian central purchasing body Consip. In ...

Electreon wins tender for electric road in Trondheim, Norway

Israeli wireless charging solutions provider Electreon has won a tender in Trondheim (Norway) for implementation of a wireless Electric Road System (ERS) for charging a bus wirelessly. The route will be managed by AtB AS. The picture shared by project partners portrays a Van Hool 24-meter Exqui.City...

Ebusco 3.0 for Stockholm: 50 units ordered (+75 on option)

Ebusco expands in Sweden with up to 125 12-meter buses (50 ordered, 75 on option) in Stockholm Delivery of the first 50 buses (model Ebusco 3.0) is scheduled for 2024 and the 75 buses are under option for delivery in 2025. Keolis Sverige has won the E42 tender in and around Stockholm (Bromma, Solna,...

Quantron lands in Italy: Quantron Italy Srl, welcome

We told you about it in recent weeks, and now it’s official: Quantron expands its global operations and establishes an Italian division, Quantron Italy Srl, as the result of a joint venture with a local company. The German manufacturer, in fact, has won in Italy what is so far its largest orde...

Rampini’s made in Italy e-buses for Sicily’s energy transition

Rampini’s electric buses will be the standard bearers of the energy transition in Sicily, which has chosen made in Italy to take this much-needed and significant step. The Sicilian Region, in fact, has decided to invest in zero-impact mobility to accelerate the energy transition and has chosen...

European e-bus market gather in Bonn for Omnibusspiegel contest

Imagine seeing a fair representation of the European electric bus market on the road, all together. This is what since a few years (the first edition was in 2017 – the opening picture comes from 2019’s edition) the German specialized magazine Omnibusspiegel is doing with the organization...

Iveco Bus has inaugurated its new assembly plant in South Italy

The big day has arrived. Today, Tuesday 18 April, Iveco Bus is inaugurating the new Foggia plant, in south Italy. Here, in fact, the new lines for the final assembly of high-tech, zero-emission (BEV and FCEV) and low-emission (methane/biomethane and latest-generation diesel/biodiesel) buses will be ...

2035 E-Mobility Taiwan. Let’s the show begins

2035 E-Mobility Taiwan joined the forces with Taipei AMPA and AutoTronics Taipei for showing to the “electric world” the taiwanese automotive industry ecosystem. This is the first time the three exhibitions have been held concurrently and in the same place, attracting 830 domestic a...

Unexpected turning point in Milan’s 340-units e-bus tender…

Unexpected turning point in Milan’s maxi-tender for 340 electric buses. According to rumours published in the Italian media Autobusweb, in the two main lots (for as many as 310 12-meter and 18-meter e-buses), the only bidders were BYD and Solaris. The latter, today the monopolist of ATM’...

ElekBu 2023: the German expo for e-buses keeps growing

1,200 attendees (with many others in the waiting list), 78 exhibitors, 18 e-buses, 5,000 m2 of exhibition area. These are the main figures of ElekBu 2023 by VDV, on 27 and 28 March in Berlin. The German Federal Minister of Transport, Volker Wissing, is expected to attend and present funding certific...

Further 41 Yutong e-buses delivered by Pelican to McGill’s Bus

Yutong UY dealer Pelican announces it has completed deliveries of a further 41 Yutong zero emission vehicles to McGill’s Bus Group. This second tranche of vehicles increases the Yutong fleet in McGill’s to 96 vehicles, after 55 were delivered prior to COP 26 in November 2021. It should be mentioned ...

15 e-buses for Regiobus in Hanover. They’re eCitaro

Regiobus has ordered 15 battery-electric buses, thus beginning the transition of the fleet towards zero emission technology. The operator has turned to EvoBus and is then going to deploy 15 units of Mercedes eCitaro. Since 2020, regiobus has exclusively procured so-called mild hybrid buses; in paral...

South Korea, from Hyundai 700 hydrogen buses to Incheon

The South Korean city of Incheon, located near the capital Seoul, plans to introduce a total of 700 hydrogen fuel cell (H2) buses on the roads by the end of 2024. A total of 200 of these H2 buses will be put into operation this year, and the rest next year. South Korea’s ministries of [&hellip...

Sustainable Bus magazine 2023 #1 is out. Check out the new issue!

Printed in early February, already brought “on assignment” at Busworld North America, shipped to a batch of the most important public transport operators in Europe, ready to be in distribution at ElekBu in Germany next month. Besides this, of course Sustainable Bus magazine February 2023...

17 per cent of ALSA buses run on alternative fuel

Today 17 per cent of ALSA buses run on alternative fuel, as explained by Miguel Angel Alonso, ALSA’s Director of Engineering and European Funds, in a story published on IRU website. The goal of the Spain-based company, with operations in Morocco, Portugal, Switzerland, and France, is to operat...

Iveco Bus to provide 65 e-buses in Belgium for De Lijn

Iveco Bus has announced that it has signed a framework agreement with De Lijn, a government-owned public transport group in Flanders, for the sale of a first batch of 65 E-Way full electric city buses and “additional batches up to a total of 500 vehicles”, as the manufacturer puts it. In...

Six new Skoda trolleybuses for the streets of Prešov

The city of Prešov, Slovakia, will soon be able to count on six new trolleybuses signed Škoda: the 18-meter-long vehicles will complement the winged arrow’s fleet of 25 trolley buses delivered in recent years under a contract signed in 2016. Specifically, these are trolleybuses of the Škoda 27...

Canada, Winnipeg gets zero emission buses from New Flyer

New Flyer has received new firm orders for 16 battery-electric and fuel cell-electric transit buses from Winnipeg Transit (the manufacturer has its headquarter in the same Canadian city). The contract also has options to be extended for up to four years to purchase up to 150 40-foot zero-emission bu...

Javier Iriarte replaces Javier Calleja as CEO of Solaris Bus & Coach

Javier Iriarte has been appointed CEO at Solaris Bus & Coach. He has been the Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Solaris since 2018, as well as the responsible for strategic development and transformation of Solaris. The important change at the helm has been announced today January 2nd 20...

Gillig electric bus scores 89.5/100 at Altoona tests

Gillig claims that they “received the highest-ever score for a battery electric bus tested at Altoona, with a total score of 89.5”. The Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Bus Test Program, conducted by the Larson Transportation Institute’s Bus Research and Testing Center ...

Tender, Consip: the pretenders to the “electric” title in Italy

Consip has made public the tenders submitted for the supply of 1,000 electric-powered buses with plug-in charging technology and pantograph, with a total value of more than 660 million euros. The initiative will enable public administrations to acquire the vehicles, taking advantage of resources und...

Further 64 BYD e-buses headed to Norway

BYD has been awarded a substantial order for electric buses from public transport operator Nobina in Norway. The order, placed by Nobina Fleet Norge AS, is for a total of 64 BYD eBuses, with delivery to Norway in Q2 2023. The order comprises 40 units of 12-metre low-floor BYD eBuses and 24 units of ...

What we have seen at Euro Bus Expo 2022

by Alex Byles From 1 to 3 November at Birmingham’s NEC in the UK, Euro Bus Expo 2022 made its return. With over 200 exhibitors and 80-plus vehicles on display, there was a host of product launches and technology announcements. We summarise the show’s pressing developments. Presenting a variety of pr...

In Milan there are 340 electric buses up for grabs

A new call for tenders in the name of e-mobility has been issued by ATM Milano, which has set 2030 as the ‘X’ date for having a 100 per cent electric fleet. The news is reported on Italian specialized media Autobusweb. In view of this date and this goal, the Azienda Trasporti Milanesi ha...

45 MAN Lion’s City E are on their way to Copenhagen

Beside the order for 31 Mercedes eCitaro announced in early November, Danish operator Vikingbus has also landed an order for 45 MAN Lion’s City 12 E. They’ll be deployed on routes in Greater Copenhagen. Deliveries are set to happen from spring 2023. Movia’s 21st tender for bus rout...

‘Energy transition out of city centers’: VIDEO AVAILABLE for the web event featuring Busworld, Transdev, Arriva, Flixbus, Iveco Bus, Twaice, ChargePoint

On Friday 28th October we have organized the web event ‘Energy transition out of city center‘, part of the second edition of the Sustainable Bus Tour. Reason of such a topic is simple : in the public transport world, out of cities the commitment to energy transition goes along with quest...

What have we seen at FIAA in Madrid?

The 2022 edition of FIAA kicked off today in Madrid, five years after the previous one. The absence of local body builders (and some leading manufacturers) certainly has an impact on an event that nevertheless remains crucial for a market, such as the Spanish one, of no small importance. And the nov...

What have we seen at Next Mobility Exhibition?

It opened its doors on Wednesday 12 October and will close today, Friday 14, the first edition of Next Mobility Exhibition, the trade fair on sustainable mobility, organised in the premises of Fieramilano Rho. Fifteen manufacturers attended as exhibitors (110 companies in total). Proceeding in rando...

Karsan, Iveco and Irizar win the Sustainable Bus Awards 2023

Winners have been elected for Sustainable Bus Awards 2023. The international jury composed of European trade magazines has today announced that Karsan e-ATA 12, Iveco Bus Crossway LE Hybrid CNG and Irizar i6S Efficient have won the sixth edition of the prize. The trophies were received by Okan Baş, ...

Equipmake to repower 12 e-buses in York for First Bus

First Bus is partnering with Equipmake to repower 12 of the operator’s first-generation electric buses in York. Therefore, 12 First York electric Optare Versa buses are going to be repowered with Equipmake electric drivetrain (ZED) at the company’s base in Snetterton, Norfolk. Equipmake expects each...

Karsan launches e-ATA Hydrogen in Hannover

Karsan started its hydrogen era at the IAA Transportation in Hannover, Germany, adding the fuel cell bus model Karsan e-ATA Hydrogen to its range of electric and autonomous products. The launch was announced last week. Equipped with an overhead 1,560-liter lightweight composite hydrogen tank, the e-...

Delivery of new capacity trolleybuses to Winterthur begins

Winterthur, a Swiss city of 111.800 inhabitants, the second largest in the canton of Zurich, received on 30 august 2022 the first new  trolleybus, model Lightram 25 with a length of 24 metres, by Hess in Bellach. The vehicle, in garish redand-white livery, is already in the Stadtbus Winterthur depot...

Pelican launches the 9-meter e-bus Yutong E9 in the UK

Pelican have announced during August that they are launching a new, smaller zero emission vehicle, named Yutong E9. The E9 has an overall length of 8.94 metre, and a width of 2.42 metre. The vehicle will be highly manoeuvrable, and ideal for both rural and urban applications, the dealer points out. ...

Solaris has sold another 20 e-buses in Cracow

Cracow has once again opted for Solaris buses. A contract was signed for the delivery of 20 Urbino electric buses to the city. 7 articulated and 13 12-metre e-buses will join Cracow’s fleet in just one year’s time, manufacturer states. The total value of the contract, concluded as a result of a tend...

Stress level: what hurts? [The Battery Cycle #7]

Below, a new contribution fromClaudius Jehle, CEO of volytica diagnostics GmbH*.It’s the seventh 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...

Iveco Bus plans to relaunch production in Italy

Iveco Bus is applying to European funds in order to “initiate manufacturing investments and Research & Development activities that will capitalise on the skills and products of the national automotive supply chain, with particular focus on the dedicated component sector”, Iveco Group...

Enel X will test Arrival e-bus in Italy

Enel X and Arrival have entered into a partnership to test the zero-emission battery electric bus in Italy. Timing of the trial has not been specified so far. The aim is to foster the growth of electrified public transport globally through increasingly high-performance and competitive solutions. The...

NTA goes with Wrightbus: up to 800 electric DD buses awarded

NTA has ordered 120 buses from Wrightbus. The acronym identifies Irish National Transport Authority. The order includes consists of double-deck battery-electric buses (100 headed to Dublin Bus, 20 to Bus Éireann) from Bamford Bus Company (trading as Wrightbus, as reported in the manufacturer press n...

What we have found at EuMo 2022. A sum-up

The 2022 edition of the European Mobility Expo (EuMo) in Paris has been kicked off yesterday. A three-day event dedicated to the (sustainable) mobility of the present and the future, with the world of buses meeting with that of technological solution, as well as the field of alternative and shared m...

CATL to supply LFP batteries to Solaris

CATL is going to supply LFP batteries to European leading electric bus manufacturer Solaris Bus & Coach. The bus builder will benefit from CATL Cell to Pack (CTP) technology, CATL points out in a press note. In the bus segment, CATL is already into agreement with Quantron and VDL. CATL is today ...

Karsan’s Autonomous e-Atak lands in Norway

An autonomous bus on the streets of Norway. It was provided by Karsan, which in these days presented in Stavanger the Autonomous e-Atak, with which the Bursa-based parent company enters the Northern European market, representing in fact the first self-driving bus in the Old Continent. Norway is one ...

BUS2BUS 2022: what we found under Messe Berlin’s spotlights

Yesterday saw the opening of the two-day BUS2BUS 2022 exhibition, Berlin’s bus trade fair. The venue for this key event for the German market is Messe Berlin’s pavilions 20 and 21, which once again welcomed visitors and vehicles, after a completely digital edition due to the pandemic. Bu...

Switch Mobility announces £300m investment in UK and India

A massive £300 million investment plan in the UK and India. This has been announced by Switch Mobility, as part of its strategic objective to become a market leader in carbon neutral public and commercial transport. The new technical center will be opened in Warwick, UK, and will be the focal point ...

Rnv expands the electric fleet by welcoming 15 eCitaro

Fifteen new electric buses signed Mercedes (eCitaro) for the urban transport of Ludwigshafen, Mannheim and Heidelberg. So the German operator Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (Rnv) continues to expand and electrify its fleet by welcoming the first 15 of the 30 latest generation “stars” with sol...

Greenmot equips its factory to produce retrofit kits

As the project to convert diesel buses into electric buses is progressing well, with Green-eBus successfully passing the first development milestone, clocking up the first kilometers with its new electric motor (responding perfectly to the constraints of driving, including uphill driving and untimel...

Solaris awarded 87 hybrid buses in Barcelona

Solaris has been awarded an order for 87 hybrid buses that will be used in the metropolitan area of Barcelona (Spain). The hybrid fleet will be managed by AMB (Area Metropolitana de Barcelona), the institution that administers urban transport in...

Oxford to roll out 159 electric buses within ZEBRA scheme

A fleet of 159 electric buses is set to serve Oxford and its surrounding areas after a bid for government funding was approved. Oxfordshire County Council has been awarded £32.8 million from the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas (ZEBRA) scheme. Oxford: electric buses are coming Along with £43.7m from...

Sustainable Bus becomes media partner for TUMI E-Bus Mission

Ambitious steps are needed to limit global warming and to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. The electrification of urban buses is considered an important element in the decarbonization of urban transport. It also helps to reduce local air pollution and increase the quality of life in urban a...

Long-distance truck and coach market according to Interact Analysis: an ‘electrification battle’ between battery-electric and H2 technology

Heavy-duty commercial vehicles, being them trucks of coaches, will continue to be diesel-powered for a few years. Anyhow, «In the long term, we’re looking at an electrification battle between battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell technology in this sector». Who is going to win? «In the wider comme...

Volvo Buses secures new electric bus orders in Finland

Volvo Buses secures new orders for electric buses in Finland. That’s right, because the Gothenburg-based company will deliver an 82 Volvo 7900 electric buses to three locations in Finland: 61 are destined for Helsinki and represent the largest ever order for Volvo Buses in Finland, while two o...

Where will hydrogen come from in the future? [The Hydrogen Hub #1]

Below, a contribution from EMCEL, a German-based engineering company focusing on hydrogen, fuel cells and e-mobility. It’s the first of a series of articles on topics around hydrogen economy and applications. Feedbacks, questions and contributions are welcome (at info@sustainable-bus.com) Hydr...

Bus2Bus 2022: appointment in Berlin on 27 and 28 April

The international bus and coach industry will meet on 27 and 28 April at the Berlin Exhibition Centre for the third edition of Bus2Bus, after a 2021 event held online for obvious pandemic reasons. Product innovations, specialist presentations and networking events make BUS2BUS one of the industry&#8...

Karsan sells a first Autonomous e-Atak to Vy Buss in Norway

Karsan has delivered the first batch of Level-4 autonomous buses ready for real road conditions in USA and Europe, to Romania. And new orders are coming from Northern Europe, Norway. The Autonomous e-ATAK is already testing the roads in Stavanger, Norway. Autonomous e-ATAK, launched one year ago, wa...

SOH… What is that? [The Battery Cycle #6]

With today’s article, we are crossing the line from rather short-term effects to the vast field of degradation, to which we will dedicate a whole chain of articles in 2022. But to begin, it is instrumental to understand some basic principles. What is the excessively used “SOH”? How is it defined, wh...

Up the curtain on the new Scania Interlink

Up the curtain on the Scania Interlink new generation. With it, Scania has introduced an entirely new range of buses for urban operations, starting in 2019 and with continuous updates ever since, not least to the BEV portfolio. The new Scania Interlink has new chassis and body and offers fuel saving...

Mercedes eCitaro G tested at 2,000 metres in Italy

A fully electric bus Mercedes eCitaro G was tested for the first time on the Alpe di Siusi, in Italy, at an altitude of 2,000 metres. “This is the first ever test of an 18-metre long battery-electric bus for local public transport at this altitude. It is a special moment for zero-emission mobi...

Barcelona receives first Caetano hydrogen bus

The first of eight state-of-the-art hydrogen fuel cell buses built by CaetanoBus arrived at a Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) depot this week. At the same time, Iberdrola has already started producing green hydrogen in its Zona Franca plant, where these urban buses will soon be supplied,...

25 Ebusco 2.2 e-buses on delivery in Frankfurt and Copenhagen

Ebusco is supplying multiple buses to Transdev in Frankfurt as well as to Nobina in Copenhagen. A total of 25 e-buses model 2.2 is currently on delivery. Recently the King of the Netherlands yesterday officially opened Ebusco new factory hall in Deurne by putting the Ebusco ...

100 Yutong fuel cell buses headed to Beijing

100 Yutong hydrogen buses are bound to Beijing’s public transport operation. 30 fuel cell bus units have been delivered on December 2021. On the same day, the “Batch Delivery and Strategic Cooperation Signing Ceremony for Yutong Group · State Power Investment Corporation Fuel Cell Produc...

European roadshow for the new e-ATA of Karsan

From Turkey to France, via Romania and Italy. The European roadshow of Karsan’s new all-electric e-ATA range has begun. The new zero-emission, high-range electric buses from Karsan, which is helping to shape public transport in cities across many countries with its range of commercial vehicles...

Daimler Truck listed on Frankfurt Stock Exchange

With an official ceremony held early this morning, Daimler Truck was launched on Frankfurt Stock Exchange. This is the actual completion of the spin-off that separates the truck and bus business from the car and van one. «Our future is in our own hands now», said Martin Daum, Chairman of the Board o...

Volvo electric buses to be offered in Latin American tenders

Volvo Buses is the first European bus manufacturer to become a partner of ZEBRA, a large collaboration launched in 2019 to accelerate the deployment of zero emission buses in major Latin American cities. The agreement will require Volvo Buses to implement a number of activities, including the provis...

De Lijn orders 60 e-buses from Van Hool and VDL

The board of directors of De Lijn has approved the order for 60 electric buses from Van Hool and VDL for 36 and 24 units respectively. This order is a next step in De Lijn’s programme to make its entire fleet and accompanying infrastructure emission-free by 2035. The board of directors also ap...

Solaris places 161 hybrid buses in Wallonie (Belgium)

Solaris has won a tender for the supply of 161 Urbino 12 hybrid buses, together with an 8-year maintenance service. The tender was issued by Opérateur de Transport de Wallonie (OTW), a public transport operator from the French-speaking part of Belgium. The vehicles will make their way to Wallonia in...

Škoda Transportation Group introduced a new electric bus for Prague

The new Škoda E CITY electric bus was presented today at the 10th edition of the Central European fair CZECHBUS, where Sustainable Bus has marked presence.It is a brand new electric bus model from the Škoda Transportation Group. Prague will thus be the first city to operate this modern and environme...

Solaris, Isuzu and MAN win the Sustainable Bus Awards 2022

The fifth edition of the Sustainable Bus Awards has its winners, and they are named Solaris Bus & Coach, Anadolu Isuzu and MAN Truck & Bus. The Solaris Urbino 15 LE Electric is a battery-electric bus that pushes the boundaries of e-mobility out of the city center and into the Class II segmen...

Proterra lands on European market for Isuzu electric buses

Turkey-California axis is born. Isuzu and Proterra, in fact, have announced a collaboration for Isuzu’s Citi Volt electric buses, which will be equipped with Proterra’s battery systems. This collaboration marks the entry of the American company in the European public transport market. No...

Arrival launches a Global Service Network Program

Arrival has announced the launch of a Global Service Network Program addressed to customers and aimed at making bus and van repair and maintenance activities simpler and more efficient. The program will be based on Arrival’s digital Service Platform to train and certify any technician to servic...

Sidney goes electric: the city’s e-bus fleet expands

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...

Siemens charging technology for Australian zero-emission e-buses

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...

Hitachi Energy sees the light today. The rebranding is concluded

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...

National Express in talks to buy Stagecoach

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...

ChargePoint takes over Dutch e-fleets telematics company ViriCiti

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...

Zürich: when it comes to depot management system, VBZ turns to PSI

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 ...

Bluebus to deliver up to 158 e-buses in Paris by 2023

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 awarded 113 e-buses in Paris

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,...

BYD ADL to deliver up to 200 e-buses to Ireland’s NTA

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...

Three fuel cell DD buses launched in Dublin

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...

Go-Ahead Group to become a carbon neutral company by 2045

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...

Siemens to power Bernmobil electric bus network

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...

Moscow will no more buy diesel buses for public transport

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 ...

Edinburgh, an electric bus fleet funded by SP Energy Networks

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...

Aarhus, Denmark: 29 e-buses launched

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...

BMZ Group and CALB: a partnership for Europe’s sustainable future

Forecasts by STRAT ANTICIPATION (“Risk assessment and success factors for mobility electrification”) indicate that in 2035, China will still have the highest demand for electric vehicle batteries, although its market share will decrease. At the same time, Europe is expected to double its demand for ...

Daimler Buses takes over 49% of charging management company Sinos

Daimler Truck’s bus division Daimler Buses announces it has acquired a stake of 49 percent in the company Sinos GmbH, based in Regensburg, active in the field of software solutions for the operation of electrified city bus fleets and in particular intelligent charging management systems, allow...
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BMZ Group and CALB: a partnership for Europe’s sustainable future

Forecasts by STRAT ANTICIPATION (“Risk assessment and success factors for mobility electrification”) indicate that in 2035, China will still have the highest demand for electric vehicle batteries, although its market share will decrease. At the same time, Europe is expected to double its demand for ...

[CANCELLED] Busworld Europe 2021

The organization announced the decision today «with pain in their heart». The choice is due to the fact that «Busworld cannot fully guarantee its exhibitors that the visitors will join the show in October in the usual numbers». The door is open to alternative events for the month of October. The nex...

Busworld Russia 2018

Busworld Russia powered by Autotrans is organised by ITEMF Expo with support of Busworld International in Crocus Expo in Moscow from 23 to 25 October 2018. Busworld Russia is held once every two years in even-numbered years, alternating with the Comtrans exhibition of ITEMF.