Electric Bus

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 Bus & Coach has officially opened yesterday, 10th April, a new plant in Roeselare (Belgium), that includes a 27,000m2 production facility, workshop, warehouse, and offices of VDL Bus Roeselare and VDL Bus & Coach Belgium. The production capacity of VDL Bus Roeselare (Krommebeekpark 2) is...

Transport UK London Bus (formerly known as Abellio London) will celebrate the mobilisation of a fully electric fleet on Route 306  in London on 13 April, as the route begins full operation from the operator’s Battersea depot. Route 306’s mobilisation in West London will be supported ...

The first new electric buses from First Bus South, operator of First Bus Solent, have entered service in Portsmouth, Fareham and Gosport. They are the first of 62 buses which will be rolled over the coming weeks for passengers on a series of routes. Funding was secured by the Department for Transpor...

First York has put in operation 12 upgraded electric buses. The first generation e-buses Optare Versa singe-deck models have been updated by Equipmake, incorporating the company’s Zero-Emission Drivetrain (ZED) technology, which in this specification, features a 274 kWh capacity battery, providing a...

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...