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Assuming a similar operational lifetime of the existing bus fleet in the coming decades, >95% electrification of the European bus fleet will not be achieved before 2055. As most European countries aim at becoming climate neutral before 2050, this strategy of replacing the current, predominantly dies...

In the UK outside London, there’s growing media attention on the prospect of public ownership of the bus network via franchised services. Can this hybrid model of public ownership with private operation arrest the decline in bus patronage?  Margaret Thatcher, UK Prime Minister between 1979 and ...

Body builders are experiencing a new golden age. The ‘electric race’ has shuffled the cards of a sector that has remained too tied to old entrepreneurial logics and dotted with large groups that are economically uncompetitive and poorly responsive to market developments. The pandemic acted as a cata...

The crisis of the Belgian bus manufacturer Van Hool, its bankruptcy and subsequent takeover by the Dutch group VDL is a story that has monopolised the interest of the bus and coach industry in a 2024 that sees the European bus industry changing shape dramatically. The Van Hool – VDL story ties...

The terrible incident that occurred in Mestre/Venice on the evening of Tuesday, October 3rd, has relaunched the debate on the challenges posed by electric vehicles in terms of fire risk. The electric bus, manufactured by the Chinese group Yutong (the largest bus manufacturer in the world as well as ...

Four years later, MAN is back with a 10.5-meter urban bus and immediately aims for consistent figures. Derived from the Lion’s City 12 E, the MAN 10 E aims to conquer a large share of a market still almost to be discovered, until now reserved for Turkish and Chinese manufacturers and… for Iriz...