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Below, an article published on May 2023 issue of Sustainable Bus magazine.By James Nix, Director, Freight and Climate, Transport & Environment Cities are increasingly buying electric buses. Almost one in three newly-registered urban buses in 2022 was zero emission. That’s a doubling of the ...

First Bus has become the first bus operator in the UK to offer a consumer charging hub, aiming to assist the local community in transitioning to electric vehicles. This innovative initiative will be housed in a purpose-built facility in Cornwall, set to be operational later this summer. The hub will...

GVB, the local public transport operator in Amsterdam has chosen The Mobility House to meet its charging management needs for its 159 electric buses. Specifically, the Dutch entity relied on the ChargePilot solution and so by the end of the year the 159 e-buses, will be recharged at the190 continuou...

Earlier this month, Switch Mobility has delivered the first set of Metrocity buses to Stagecoach, a prominent bus and coach operator in the UK. This delivery is part of an order for 20 buses placed by Stagecoach, consisting of two variants of the Switch Metrocity: the 8.7-meter model for Walthamstow...

Fleet management, ticketing, and passenger information all in one, thanks to a single source: the Stadtwerke Solingen (SWS) has chosen to rely on the comprehensive, integrated IVU.suite solution, including the IVU Traffic Technologies IVU.ticket.box on-board computer, for standardized management of ...

It was yesterday’s news that Ebusco 3.0 deliveries will begin following mass production. And so the first Ebusco 3.0 will soon be on the road in the Netherlands in Transdev livery, but also in Germany for Niederrheinische Verkehrsbetriebe AG (NIAG), which is indeed ready to welcome 31 Ebusco 3...

BYD has celebrated the 10-year anniversary of their electric buses operating in the Netherlands. The first fleet of BYD eBuses entered service with Arriva in Schiermonnikoog, Friesland Province. Back in 2013, the Friesland Province government awarded BYD the contract after the first public electric ...

Mercedes-Benz is celebrating a major achievement as the 1,000th unit of the eCitaro rolls off the production line in Mannheim. Over the past five years, the Mercedes eCitaro has gained significant traction, with numerous orders from cities like Hamburg, Dresden, Bremen, Wiesbaden, and Mannheim, as w...

It was August last year when Pelican Bus & Coach, Yutong’s UK dealer, announced the launch of a zero-emission midibus, the Yutong E9. That is, an e-bus a scant 9 meters (8.94 m to be exact) by a width of 2.42 meters, ideal for urban and suburban applications, equipped with 255 kWh batterie...

Marcopolo, in partnership with Brazilian autonomous mobility startup Lume Robotics, has unveiled the first prototype of an autonomous minibus in South America. The project, developed over two years with the collaboration of several Brazilian companies, integrates autonomous technology into the Volar...