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San Francisco Bay Area’s AC Transit orders an additional 20 fuel cell buses from New Flyer, model Xcelsior CHARGE H2, unveiled in March 2019. The purchase was made through California’s State Cooperative Procurement, which New Flyer was selected for as a top-scoring approved supplier in 2019. 35 zero...

Rimini’s Metromare is switching gear, the supply of new-generation trolleybuses to ATM Milano has been completed, while other vehicles are making their debut in service in Emilia-Romagna region. The first half of 2021 in Italy has been anything but dull as far as trolleybus projects are concer...

BYD has designed and delivered a trolleybus in response to Walla Walla’s Valley Transit’s needs, in the US (Washington state). The Chinese giant has been working to this extent with a third party, Cable Car Classics of Healdsburg, Calif., to design a trolley using BYD’s 35-foot transit bus mod...

CNH Industrial has unveiled the name of Gerrit Marx as the designated CEO of CNH On-Highway Business. We’re talking about the new entity of the global group that is expected to assume independent operations early next year. The spin-off was announced back in September 2019, on the occasion of t...

Groeningen, Netherlands: a new hydrogen filling station in Qbuzz bus depot. 20 new fuel cell buses have been presented during the ceremony. They are built by Van Hool and were ordered in 2019. On Friday 11 June the new hydrogen filling station at the Qbuzz bus depot on the Peizerweg in Groningen was...

Genoa (Italy) witnesses the entry in operation of a further batch of Rampini 8-meter electric buses (ten units are awaited, powered with Siemens charging infrastructures). They are to be operated by PTO AMT on line 193, that thus becomes the first fully electric line in the western part of Genoa. Th...

The new Schunk SLS 301 series variant introduces a ELT recognized pantograph with variable operating heights, aimed at promoting quicker and safer hands-free electric vehicle charging. With easy integration into existing and new infrastructure requirements, its compact size increases usable floor sp...

Double handover of Mercedes eCitaro G in Hamburg. The vehicles have been delivered to Hamburger Hochbahn AG and Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein GmbH (VHH). 70 eCitaro buses towards Hamburg Both buses are part of considerable large orders. Mercedes-Benz is currently in the process of supplying 37 e...

Alexander Dennis has unveiled its first zero-emissions double deck bus for North America. The Enviro500EV CHARGE for North America, 13.7-meter long, is an outcome of the takeover of the UK-based manufacturer by NFI Group, as the vehicle joins NFI portfolio of zero emission buses. The ‘CHARGE&#...

Less than one week left for UITP India Bus Seminar 2021, that will take place between 15 and 18 June. Good occasion to discuss with the head of UITP India Rupa Nandy, ahead of the meeting, the main issues of Indian public transport and to outline a view on the future of the secto...