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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...

Quantron has won in Italy its largest e-bus tender so far. Six Cizaris 12 EV are set to be in operation from October 2023 in Turin under the livery of GTT. They’ll be deployed by the carrier Miccolis, who has been awarded a batch of GTT lines (one of the others awarded carriers is Autoguidovie...

The big day has arrived. Today, Tuesday 18 April, Iveco Bus is inaugurating the new Foggia plant, in south Italy. Here, in fact, the new lines for the final assembly of high-tech, zero-emission (BEV and FCEV) and low-emission (methane/biomethane and latest-generation diesel/biodiesel) buses will be ...