Electric Bus

20 electric buses by BYD have been officially commissioned by Nahverkehrsbetriebe Birkenfeld to serve regional and urban public transport services in the Nationalparklandkreis. The new fleet was presented at the exhibition centre in Idar-Oberstein during a formal commissioning event attended by repr...

Arriva Netherlands will introduce 167 new electric buses—128 from Yutong and 39 from Irizar (the first ever awarded in the country) —into service in East Brabant from December 2026. The start of the new concession will see Arriva Netherlands take responsibility for bus services across several munici...

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. Battery-electric bus registrations in Europe (vehicles over 8 tons) reached 5,315 units in the first half of 202...

Porto’s public transport operator STCP has started operations with 20 new-generation electric buses supplied by CaetanoBus, as the manufacturer outlines in a press note. The buses were ordered in August 2025 and belong to the new platform developed in partnership with Chinese CRRC an presented...

Kinetic announces it has secured two long-term contracts in New Zealand’s Dunedin, that will see 37 new electric buses introduced from 2026, shifting around half of the city’s services to zero-emission operation. The Otago Regional Council (ORC) has awarded Kinetic, operating through its Go Bu...

Go North East has introduced 29 battery-electric buses into service, bringing zero-emission operation to three of the region’s busiest routes through a £17 million public–private investment. The new vehicles were unveiled at the Utilita Arena Newcastle, underlining the strategic importance placed on...