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The first of a long series. Switch Mobility has indeed delivered the first batch of Switch EiV 22 electric double-decker buses to Brihan Mumbai Electric Supply & Transport (BEST) in Mumbai, as reported by The Times of India. The first delivery step is part of the Indian operator’s order fo...

by omnibus.news / Rüdiger Schreiber Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles (MCV) from Egypt announces a BEV electric bus developed specifically for the German market. A subsidiary, MCV Deutschland GmbH, was founded for sales, after-sales and service. The news was initially announced in December 2022. MCV...

The German transport company Stadtwerke Aschaffenburg Verkehrs GmbH turned to Solaris with an order for 12 fuel cell buses: 10 Urbino 12 hydrogen units and 2 Urbino 18 hydrogen buses, which will operate in the Lower Franconia region. This order marks Solaris’s first for the 18-meter hydrogen-p...

On 15th February we joined the press event organized by FlixBus (but is should be better to say ‘Flix’, from the name of the group that embraces both bus and FlixTrain business) on the occasion of its 10th anniversary.  A few takeaways: in 2022 FlixBus achieved profit...

Deutsche Bahn has signed a framework agreement with Portuguese manufacturer Caetanobus for 60 fuel cell buses on delivery by 2026. First vehicles are set to run for DB Regio Bus in Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein in a year’s time. Behind the order is “DB’s clear goal of phasing...

Nobina has won the tender for public transport service in Karlstad region, Sweden. The news is reported on trade media bussmagasinet.se. Keolis is today operating in the concession. Nobina and Keolis have been the only ones to submit bids to the tender. Since December 2018 4 electric articulated Cit...

Iveco Bus has been awarded a tender for 120 electric buses issued by Autoguidovie, the largest Italian privately owned local public transport company. Iveco Bus is also among the four bidders at the 340-units e-bus tender by ATM Milano and will provide 150 e-buses to Italian carrier Busitalia starti...

Belgian public transport operator Opérateur de Transport de Wallonie OTW-TEC once again chooses Volvo buses, ordering 97 7900 S-Charge for use in Belgium. The order was obtained through a public tender as part of a larger framework agreement between Volvo Buses and OTW-TEC. Volvo Buses delivered 64 ...

KVG Kieler Verkehrsgesellschaft (KVG), the main public bus operator in the far-northern coastal city of Kiel, is set to become the first operator in Germany to take delivery of new Mellor Sigma electric buses. The operator has specified three Sigma 7s that are set to be delivered in March 2023. The ...

Ten years since the foundation, 300 million passengers transported, 41 countries connected, 2022 revenue of more than € 1.5 billion on a global scale and the achievement of profitability at the EBITDA level. This is the 2022 snapshot of Flix (a group under which the FlixBus brand as well as the rail...