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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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Today the headquarters of municipal operator Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacji Miejskiej in Sosnowiec saw the official hand-over of 14 new electric buses made by Solaris. Along with the vehicles the manufacturer has provided the requisite charging infrastructure, the bus builder says. The newly supplied ...

Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB) and Carosserie Hess yesterday signed the contract for the procurement of eight electric double-articulated buses, following the tender awarded in May. The vehicles are to be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2022. The contract with EvoBus (Schweiz) AG will also be sig...

BYD has delivered an additional 76 BYD eBuses to major Nordic public transport operator, Nobina, for use in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. The fulfilment completes Finland’s largest ever electric bus order – a 119-unit order for Nobina – and represents BYD’s second-ever delivery to Finland following...

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...

Solaris will present its new Urbino 9 LE electric bus during a web event on September 30, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. CEST. As anticipated by Mateusz Figaszewski, Director of E-mobility Development, in an interview with Sustainable Bus published in May, the Solaris family of electrically-powered Urbino model...

27 days, 12 cities: 2,100 km travelling by Pepper Motion GmbH‘s etrofit bus on an electrifying roadshow trip through Poland. Together with its sales partner Green Transport sp. z o.o., Pepper Motion (formerly known as eTro-Fit) is presenting its award-winning retrofitting solutions for the ele...

Lion Electric has received an order for 35 LionC school buses from Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.), in Canada. The vehicles will join the 12 LionC buses already operating in the province, which have been servicing routes in the Charlottetown area since early 2021. Lion will also provide 35 Level 2 cha...

Australia: BusTech Group will manufacture 16 new electric buses for operation on Queensland roads, following the announcement of a strategic partnership with Keolis Downer, Australia’s largest private provider of public transport. Earlier this year, BusTech Group announced that the production of ZDi...

Solaris Bus & Coach and Danish carrier AarBus (previous named: Busselskabet Aarhus Sporveje) have signed an agreement for the delivery of 29 electric buses: 6 Solaris Urbino 12 electric and 23 articulated Urbino 18 electric units. In accordance with the contract, the zero-emission buses will be ...

New Flyer and MCI have been named as ZEB partner of choice by nine major transit agencies across America for the FTA’s 2021 Low-No program grants. The two NFI subsidiaries supported successful customer applications for over $40 million in FTA grants, NFI’s best Low-No performance ever in the six yea...