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Iveco Bus-Dakar, deal. The manufacturer will deliver 370 Class II Crossways – the company’s flagship model – to help modernize transportation offerings in the metropolitan area of Senegal’s capital and its suburbs. The first batches have arrived in the city, and the remaining...

The Italian bus market experienced a boom in 2023. And so after the 2,351 number plates registered during 2022, according to data collected by ANFIA, registrations of buses over 8 ton hit the figure of 4,043 in 2023. To find such a volume, we have to go back to 2024. The growth on 2022 is […]

Ballard Power Systems announced the signing of a new Long-Term Supply Agreement with NFI Group (under whose umbrella lie New Flyer, Alexander Dennis and others). “The agreement marks a new phase in the established partnership between Ballard and NFI, focused on deployment-level volumes of fuel...

BYD Mexico delivered the first batch of 20 15-meter electric buses to Mexico City Metrobús. This supply involves a total of 55 pure electric buses, marking the largest electric bus fleet delivered in a single shipment in Mexico thus far, as the Chinese manufacturer states. LATAM is a fast moving mar...

The Transport Region Amsterdam has announced that bus company EBS is set to face fines for providing substandard service in the Zaan region’s regional transport. The potential fine could amount to a significant 2 million euros, local trade media OVPro.nl reports. That underlines the fact that ...

Only 4 percent of all emission-free vehicles in 2044 are estimated to be fuel cell powered, according to IDTechEx’s latest report on “Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles 2024-2044“. The consulting company “forecasts a low penetration of fuel cell city buses, restricted to a limited n...

CRRC and BYD secured two tenders for electric buses in Southern Italy (99 and 45 units respectively). The news have been reported on Italian trade media Autobusweb (belonging to the same publisher of Sustainable Bus) Bari is indeed going to receive 99 electric buses from CRRC, following the tender a...

The board of De Lijn, the public transport authority and operator in Flanders, Belgium, has approved the putchase of 92 standard (12 m) electric buses from BYD Europe. Deliveries are set to begin in early 2025. The order represents an investment of more than 43 million euro. “This order confirms tha...

New customer for Ebusco: Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam (Germany) kicks off fleet electrification with first e-bus order. The operator has opted for 23 Ebusco 3.0 buses (10 Ebusco 3.0 12-metre buses, and 13 Ebusco 3.0 18-metre buses). The buses are scheduled to commence service in 2025 and will operate in ...

130 vehicles (trolleybuses and e-buses) have just been awarded in Genoa, Italy. Solaris (in partnership with Skoda) will supply 112 IMC trolleybuses for a value of more than EUR 100 million. The second part of the contract, dedicated to electric flash charging buses for the Valbisagno route, has see...