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Indian manufacturer Ashok Leyland will start manufacturing electric buses for the European market at its Ras Al Khaimah plant in the UAE (United Arab Emirates) within the next 12 months, according to statements by Managing Director and CEO Shenu Agarwal reported on The New Indian Express. This move ...

Sound Transit announced in early February it has broken ground on the new Renton Transit Center, a project that will support the launch of the Stride S1 line operated with double-decker battery-electric buses. The February 4, 2026 groundbreaking marks the start of construction of a relocated and reb...

The Tzen 4, a fully electric bus rapid transit line operating largely on segregated lanes, entered service on 10 February 2026 in the southern Île-de-France region. After several years of infrastructure works (the start of commercial operations was expected in 2024…), the new corridor connects...

Gerald Tropper has been appointed as the new head of the Daimler Truck Mannheim plant, effective July 1, 2026. Daimler Truck announced that Gerald Tropper, currently Head of Corporate Audit, will assume responsibility for the Mannheim site, which combines engine production with the group’s center of...

Valmet Automotive and Jeti Industries have signed a preliminary agreement for the serial production of modular electric buses at Valmet Automotive’s Uusikaupunki plant in Finland. The agreement, announced on 10 February 2026, establishes the framework for potential contract manufacturing of electric...

Arriva UK Bus will deploy 26 new electric buses on Route 102/N102 in North London after retaining the service under a new seven-year Transport for London contract starting in November 2026. The contract award confirms Arriva UK Bus as the operator of one of North London’s long-standing orbital route...

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Mobility Move returns to Berlin from 10 to 12 March 2026. The Estrel Berlin hotel hosted in 2025 around 1,500 participants, 150 speakers, and over 100 exhibitors, with more than 20 vehicles on display across 7,500 square meters of exhibition space. The event has grown from its origins as the “VDV El...

For more than a decade, autonomous buses have been “almost ready.” Demonstrations with safety drivers began around 2015, and ten years later, this is still largely what we see. The reason is not a lack of ambition – it is physics, safety, and economics. Autonomous buses on city streets a...

Authored and sponsored by IFEMA FIAA trade fair strengthens its role as a strategic platform to anticipate the future of passenger road transport. Internationalisation, sustainability and digitalisation will shape FIAA’s 2026 agenda, taking place from 22 to 24 September at IFEMA MADRID. The next edi...

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End and beginning of a year are quite good timing for recaps and forecasts. Here we go with a batch of predictions. BloombergNEF ‘Electric Vehicles Outlook 2022’, out late last year, highlighted that transport is the only other sector on track to reduce emissions by 2050. Uptake of electric vehicles...

Farizon Auto, the commercial vehicle brand within the Geely automotive group, is ‘on fire’ in China. In 2022, the manufacturer managed to achieve the largest cumulative sales volume among all brands in China. Only in December 2022, Farizon Auto sold 10,244 vehicles, as reported on Sustainable Truck&...

A new associate member for the ITxPT (Information Technology for Public Transport) association, welcoming Safra, France’s first hydrogen bus manufacturer and a forerunner in hydrogen bus retrofits. This membership confirms Safra’s commitment to design and manufacture its products accordi...

by omnibus.newsPhoto credit: BVG Issues with electric buses in Berlin are nothing new; two years ago, it was the shortened range in cold weather that worried BVG. The transport authority sought contact with the then electric bus supplier Solaris, because the vehicles of the Urbino electric series co...

Rolf-Jan Zweep has taken the position of CEO at VDL Bus & Coach as of 1 January 2023. The appointment was not officially released by the Dutch manufacturer in a corporate statement but is mentioned by the manufacturer between the lines of the press release about the order for 193 new-generation ...

EBS has no intention to make a bad impressione when it’ll take the reins of the newly formed Zaanstreek-Waterland concession in December 2023. The operator (from Egged group) is indeed procuring as many as 193 new-generation VDL Citea. They’ll be delivered starting in September 2023. For...

CTS (Compagnie des Transports Strasbourgeois) and Keolis, the story continues. In fact, the operator has renewed the Keolis technical assistance contract for four years, thus being able to rely on a structured partner in its ambitious project that includes recruiting 400 employees by 2025 to suppor...

As of January 1, 2023, Libuše Jurečková has assumed the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Skoda Group, making her responsible for managing the group’s financial activities, financial planning, and monitoring and controlling cash flows. Libuše Jurečková, 59, studied economics and fin...

In 2022 Daimler Truck increased its sales – in all segments – by 14.2%, from 455,445 in 2021 to 529,291 last year (+64,846 units). The performance of Daimler Buses was particularly positive, with 24,041 buses and coaches sold, equal to an impressing +28.3% over compared to 2021. More det...

Mohamed Mezghani has been reappointed as UITP Secretary General to begin a new five-year term in January 2023. The UITP Executive Board confirmed the reappointment during their meeting in May 2022, for the new term beginning this month. Mohamed has been the Secretary General of UITP since 2018: he b...

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Ashok Leyland reportedly to produce electric buses for Europe at UAE plant within 12 months

Washington State: Sound Transit to launch Renton Transit Center for double-decker electric buses

Île-de-France launches Tzen 4 BRT with 24m Hess e-buses and Alstom ground charging

Gerald Tropper to take over management of Daimler Mannheim facility

‘Made in Finland’ electric buses coming? Valmet Automotive and Jeti Industries sign preliminary agreement

Arriva keeps Route 102/N102 in North London, 26 electric buses to enter service

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Mobility Move 2026 puts the spotlight on the future of road-based public transport (Berlin, 10 to 12 March)

Depot-first autonomy for European smartbuses

FIAA 2026 positions itself as the bus and coach sector’s key strategic partner

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Mobility predictions for 2023? Energy consumption, robo-taxis, MaaS [Next Stop #1]

Farizon Auto aims at 150,000 commercial vehicles sales in China this year

Safra joins the ITxPT Association

Ebusco buses haven’t reached Berlin yet. Berliner Zeitung: BVG’s technical assessment is not flattering

Rolf-Jan Zweep took over the position of CEO at VDL Bus & Coach

EBS has awarded 193 e-buses to VDL for the Dutch Zaanstreek-Waterland concession

Compagnie des Transports Strasbourgeois renews (for four years) the Keolis technical assistance contract

Skoda Group, Libuše Jurečková new Chief Financial Officer

Daimler Buses increased sales volumes of 28% in 2022 (24K buses and coaches sold)

Mohamed Mezghani has been reappointed as UITP Secretary General

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