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Valmet Automotive and Jeti Industries have signed a preliminary agreement for the serial production of modular electric buses at Valmet Automotive’s Uusikaupunki plant in Finland. The agreement, announced on 10 February 2026, establishes the framework for potential contract manufacturing of electric...

Arriva UK Bus will deploy 26 new electric buses on Route 102/N102 in North London after retaining the service under a new seven-year Transport for London contract starting in November 2026. The contract award confirms Arriva UK Bus as the operator of one of North London’s long-standing orbital route...

Yutong has deployed 68 electric buses in Italy to support transport operations for the Winter Olympics Milano Cortina 2026. The event opened on 6 February 2026 and is organised under a dual-city hosting model, with competitions distributed across four main zones and eight venues located at significa...

Reading Buses has introduced 24 Alexander Dennis Enviro400EV battery-electric double-deck buses into service on its core network. The vehicles, ordered in June 2024, have been launched on 5 February at the operator’s Great Knollys Street depot and are now operating on the purple 17 and claret 21 rou...

California has approved new funding for electric bus procurement as part of a broader $988.7 million transportation investment package. The California Transportation Commission has indeed allocated $17 million for the purchase of 20 electric buses for the city of Glendale (Los Angeles county), accor...

Solaris and Warsaw public transport operator MZA have expanded their last electric bus contract to a total of 158 battery-electric vehicles, with deliveries planned through 2027. Miejskie Zakłady Autobusowe has exercised the contract extension option included in the agreement signed with Solaris Bus...

Italy is the fourth country worldwide where Hitachi Energy’s Grid-eMotion Flash ultra-fast charging system for electric buses will be deployed, with operations starting from 2026. After deployments in Geneva in Switlerland (the well known pioneeristic TOSA project), Nantes and Brisbane, the system w...

Irizar e-mobility’s ie bus Efficient, launched last year at Busworld Europe in Brussels, has been named 2026 Bus of the Year in Spain by the National Transport Awards jury. The recognition was announced during the National Transport Awards ceremony held at the Novotel Madrid Center hotel in Madrid, ...

Phoenix Contact has developed a CCS vehicle charging inlet that integrates the charging controller directly into the inlet assembly for commercial electric vehicles. It’s named CHARX connect advanced, and it aims at consolidating charging communication and control functions within the vehicle-...

King County Metro has begun deploying Gillig electric buses in south King County, marking the first entry into service of this new battery-electric fleet with updated operator safety partitions. The launch was announced by King County Metro during an event attended by King County Executive Girmay Za...