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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the second round of funding under the Clean School Bus Program. This second round of funding makes approximately $400 million available through a competitive grant process, with an application deadline of August 22, 2023. Notification of s...

GIFT City (Gujarat International Finance Tec-City) is a business district under construction in the Gandhinagar district of Gujarat, India. Well, with the aim of strengthening green transportation facilities to and from Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), the Gujarat State Road Trans...

More than a month ago we were telling you about Volvo Buses radical turnaround, announcing the closure of its Wroclaw factory in Poland and its willingness to focus only on chassis production, leaving other companies to build the bodies. Well, today Volvo Buses announces that it has signed a letter ...

Alstom is the winner of a joint tender for 22 new low-floor trams, model Citadis, chosen by three French cities: Toulouse, Besançon and Brest. The three networks therefore commissioned Alstom with the 5-unit version of the Citadis model, of which 9 units will be delivered to Toulouse, 5 to Besancon,...

The Routing Company today announced it has received a 15-vehicle contract from the East Sussex County Council (“ESCC”). The contract, supported by the United Kingdom’s Bus Service Improvement Plan funding, includes a two year base agreement with an optional year extension, for a total of up to three...

First Bus is investing £2.5 million in solar power on a mission to make its depots self-sustaining – with 6,000 solar PV panels enabling 20 depots to generate their own renewable power for lighting, heating, office equipment and the engineering bays. By mid-June, these panels will generate over 2 mi...

“A central train station. A multimodal park and ride. A village market square with electric scooter parking. A car-sharing station next to a bus stop, next to a bike parking space in your neighbourhood. These are all mobility hubs”, UITP underlines in its just-released policy brief: “Mob...

Pilot operation of an automated MAN bus is planned from 2025 onwards within the just-announced MINGA project, that see the manufacturer cooperating with the City of Munich, the Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG), the Münchner VerkehrsVerbund (MVV) as well as companies and research institutes. Auton...

183 articulated Solaris Urbino 18.75 electric buses were added to Oslo’s bus fleet on 16th April 2023. Thus, Solaris has completed its largest single order for electric buses so far. The value of the contract, signed in January 2022, is approximately...

Imagine seeing a fair representation of the European electric bus market on the road, all together. This is what since a few years (the first edition was in 2017 – the opening picture comes from 2019’s edition) the German specialized magazine Omnibusspiegel is doing with the organization...