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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...

NFI subsidiary New Flyer has received an order for up to 150 Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric buses from the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority of Buffalo, New York (NFTA-Metro). To be more specific, the public transport company has issued a five-year contract to NFI subsidiary New Flyer, whi...

With two new contracts, Nobina has been given increased confidence by SL to operate and develop public transport in Huddinge-Botkyrka-Söderort and in Nacka-Värmdö. The contracts largely include electric buses, as it will be the first time that electric buses are introduced on a larg scale in the Sto...

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...

Twenty Gemilang electric buses start running on the streets of Singapore equipped with Masats Doors. These 100% electric chassis vehicles made by Finnish manufacturer Linkker and built by Malaysian body builder Gemilang were ordered by ST Engineering for Singapore’s LTA Land Transport Authorit...

The plan of the government of Delhi, India, to create an ecologically, socially and financially sustainable public transport network is vigorously taking off. The Delhi Transport Department floated tenders for inducting 140 low floor, air-conditioned electric buses, to strengthen the public transpor...

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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...

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Rampini and CaetanoBus, two ‘families’ of electric buses become… one. The Italian company Rampini incorporates the CaetanoBus e.City Gold (10.7 and 12-meter version); CaetanoBus includes in its portfolio the short electric buses Rampini E60 and E80. Therefore, as a result, both man...

Navistar approaches the era of electric truck and bus development. The American company has launched a new business unit to this purpose, named NEXT eMobility Solutions. Vehicles developed by NEXT, based in Detroit, will be offered under the umbrella of Navistar subsidiaries International Truck and ...

BYD keeps receiving ebus orders from Norway. Unibuss, one of the main Norway’s principal public transport providers, has just ordered 23 12-meter electric buses by the Chinese manufacturer. Deliveries are scheduled in Q2 2020 for operation on routes in and around the Norwegian capital, Oslo. BYD cla...

Nine per cent of the public transport buses in the Netherlands are today electrically powered. And one third of them is operated by Arriva. The exact figure is 157 ebuses belonging to the fleet of the group, out of a total Dutch zero emission bus fleet of 468 vehicles. These data come from the Dutch...

Good bye Daimler Trucks & Buses, welcome Daimler Truck AG. The Daimler Group launched on 1st November 2019 a new corporate structure. All Daimler Trucks & Buses activities are now bundled together in Daimler Truck AG. The spin-off of the business divisions passenger cars and vans as well as ...

ASEAG dresses the Mercedes eCitaro in black and white. Aachen, in Germany, has just taken delivery of 7 Mercedes battery electric buses, and up to further 20 units are coming. The public transport operator Aachener Straßenbahn und Energieversorgungs AG (ASEAG) ordered up to 27 electric city buses. W...

Foton Motor is going to produce electric buses in Egypt. The first delivery has been executed a few days ago. The electric bus production in Egypt will be developed within a collaborazione between Foton Motor, the Egyptian Ministry of Military Production and the Egyptian company IMUT (International ...

Australia bus fleet will get a touch of… green. There are plans to fully electrify Sydney bus fleet. That means converting to a new technology as many as some 8,000 vehicles, mainly running on diesel so far. The news is reported on the media The Driven. Australia bus fleet and electric buses i...

MCI is launching a new electric coach in the US. Flixbus already took the opportunity to test it. Built by Motor Coach Industry (MCI), part of New Flyer Industries group, the vehicle has been sent on a Sacramento to San Francisco route (around 85 miles) for evaluation on October 28. MCI is bringing ...

Proterra gets its first order from Idaho. In fact, the Valley Regional Transit (VRT) agreed to purchase eight Proterra Catalyst 35-foot E2 buses and eight 125 kW plug-in charging systems. As mentioned above, VRT is Proterra’s first customer in Idaho and the first transit agency in Idaho to bring ele...