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VDL Bus & Coach has officially opened yesterday, 10th April, a new plant in Roeselare (Belgium), that includes a 27,000m2 production facility, workshop, warehouse, and offices of VDL Bus Roeselare and VDL Bus & Coach Belgium. The production capacity of VDL Bus Roeselare (Krommebeekpark 2) is...

VDL – Schmitz Cargobull’s bid has been chosen by trustees in Van Hool’s case as the best fit to ensure continuity in the company. Administrators taking care of the post-bankruptcy takeover of the OEM “believe a much faster start-up can be achieved. They feared that with other...

Transport UK London Bus (formerly known as Abellio London) will celebrate the mobilisation of a fully electric fleet on Route 306  in London on 13 April, as the route begins full operation from the operator’s Battersea depot. Route 306’s mobilisation in West London will be supported ...

Benteler-owned autonomous shuttle company Benteler announces a new cooperation (through memorandum of understanding) with public transport operator Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area in Germany, with the goal of “advancing autonomous mobility in local p...

BYD’s blade battery is close to be launched in a new version, “possibly in August“, CarNewsChina writes. The current generation of the battery is set to be used on the new 12-metre BYD eBus platform B2, integrated to the chassis (showed at Busworld 2023 in Brussels). In early 2024 ...

Mercedes eCitaro G, Solaris Urbino 18 Electric, MAN Lion’s City E 18, and Ebusco 3.0 18-meter. These manufacturers have converged in Bonn (Germany) to subject their 18-meter electric buses to scrutiny and driving performance evaluations during the yearly initiative E-Bus test, promoted since 2017 by...

It is called Voith HySTech GmbH and brings together all of Voith’s know-how in the field of hydrogen storage systems. The company, established on April 1, strengthens Voith’s position in the growing market for hydrogen technologies and focuses on hydrogen storage systems for heavy-duty v...

Rock Rail, the UK Infrastructure Bank and Aviva, through its in-house capital unit Aviva Capital Partners, announce they have formed a partnership to provide a new funding platform for zero emission bus financier ‘Rock Road’. The partnership, alongside a debt facility from UK Infrastructure Bank and...

Bus manufacturer Van Hool has been declared bankrupt. The information has been stated by the manufacturer itself this morning, 8th April, and the topic got high attention on local media, in particular from De Standaard. The company is set to be taken over by Dutch VDL and German Schmitz Cargobull, b...

The first new electric buses from First Bus South, operator of First Bus Solent, have entered service in Portsmouth, Fareham and Gosport. They are the first of 62 buses which will be rolled over the coming weeks for passengers on a series of routes. Funding was secured by the Department for Transpor...