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The new section of Metrotranvia 7 in Milan, operated by ATM Milano, connecting the Adriano district to the M1 underground station in Precotto and the M5 underground station in Bicocca, was officially opened in mid October 2025 in the presence of the Mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, the Councillor for ...

Daimler Buses closed 2025 with stable unit sales, while Daimler Truck group volumes declined -8%, mainly due to weaker truck demand in North America. Back in 2024, Daimler Buses was the best performing — and almost the only growing — division of the group. Daimler Truck ended the 2025 financial year...

During Busworld Europe 2025, BorgWarner outlined the structure and industrial rationale behind its current and next-generation battery offering. Martin Busche, Vice President Battery R&D, Product Strategy and Program Management, described a family of LFP and NMC battery packs built on shared har...

For more than a decade, autonomous buses have been “almost ready.” Demonstrations with safety drivers began around 2015, and ten years later, this is still largely what we see. The reason is not a lack of ambition – it is physics, safety, and economics. Autonomous buses on city streets a...

Connected Energy announces it will invest £2 million in a new second-life EV battery testing facility in the UK, combining a 5MWh BESS with multi-manufacturer battery integration and scheduled to open by mid-2026. Connected Energy is developing what it describes as the UK’s most advanced second-life...

MAN Truck & Bus closed 2025 with 101,600 vehicles delivered (+6%), including over 7,000 buses (+49%) and a record 1,300+ electric city buses (+118%). Bus sales were growing +35% in the first nine months of 2025. After a difficult prior year, MAN’s 2025 results point to a clear recovery in the bu...

PostAuto has signed a framework agreement with Solaris Bus & Coach covering the supply of up to 115 battery-electric buses, with deliveries planned for 2026 and 2027. The Swiss public transport operator selected Solaris following tender procedures for both 12-metre and 18-metre electric buses, S...

As of 2024, electric buses have reached double-digit fleet shares in Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Denmark, but diesel continues to overwhelmingly dominate Europe’s buses overall (although, as still ACEA reported, between January and September 2025, registrations of electric buses in the European ...

The public bus operator serving Italy’s Dolomites, Dolomiti Bus, announces it is reinforcing its operational capacity in preparation for the Milano–Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games due to be held in February. According to a press release issued by Dolomiti Bus, the public transport o...

Kai Woerner has been appointed Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of cellcentric, effective January 2026. Cellcentric, the 50:50 fuel cell joint venture of Daimler Truck AG and the Volvo Group (launched in 2021) has announced a change in its management board with the appointment of Kai Wo...