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Scania announces it will be supplying 60 battery-electric city buses in Australia, bodied by local enterprise Volgren. They’ll be delivered to the Department for Infrastructure and Transport (DIT), part of the South Australian state government. It marks the beginning of the state’s commitment ...

Flemish public transport company De Lijn officially launched its first electric buses from BYD Europe into service on 23rd June. The vehicles are initially operating from the Mortsel depot, serving the Antwerp region, with plans to deploy them more widely across Flanders in the coming months. The sa...

Just one month after the docking of 300 new e-buses from Zhongtong at Port of Sant Antonio, Santiago de Chile’s carrier Red Movillidad announces that another 300 BEV vehicles from the same manufacturer have joined the fleet. They’ll be part of a total of 1,800 e-buses that will bring to ...

Three public transport companies in Lower Saxony—Verdener Verkehrsgesellschaft (VVG/Allerbus), Stadtbus Goslar (SBG), and KVG Braunschweig (KVG)—have jointly secured funding to expand their electric bus fleets. The grant, awarded by the N-Bank, combines resources from the European Regional Developme...

After a few years without releasing major updates about its projects—while continuing deliveries, albeit at a more limited pace—CaetanoBus is now entering a new phase of industrial and product development. In 2024, the Portuguese manufacturer produced around 400 units and expects to exceed 500 by 20...

The public transport operator in St. Gallen, Verkehrsbetriebe St.Gallen (VBSG), has launched a new procurement process for 13 battery-electric buses. This follows the cancellation of a previous contract and marks another step in the city’s transition to an all-electric bus fleet by 2030. The n...

Bremen, in Germany, has officially launched 50 new battery-electric articulated buses, now operating from the fully modernized Blumenthal depot in the city’s north. The facility, converted by the Bremer Straßenbahn AG (BSAG) into its first fully electric bus depot, now serves as the operational hub ...

Italian bus bellows provider PEI Mobility has been chosen by Castrosua to equip its new range of electric buses based on Nelec body and realized in partnership BYD. The supply, announced by the Italian provider, offers a preview of the upcoming launch of an articulated BYD Castrosua model. The coope...

Alexander Dennis has announced on 11th June the beginning of a consultation process aimed at reshaping its UK manufacturing footprint. This move follows a detailed internal business review and is a response to changing market dynamics. Under the consultation, reads the press note spread by the compa...

A new life for the Prestij, Temsa‘s flagship tourist coach, which made its debut on the bus market in 1992 and now has nearly 20 thousand units sold worldwide. Nine years after its 2016 redesign, the Turkish Oem has further revamped its compact coach (just over 7 meters, in fact, is its length...