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BYD is introducing a battery-electric Type D school bus. With length options of 35, 38, and 40 feet, BYD’s Type D battery-electric school bus can seat up to 84 passengers, and can be equipped with an ADA liftgate. The bus has a range of up to 155 miles on a single charge, BYD says. Given the strong ...

First electric buses produced in Moscow are ready to go on routes. A first batch of 25 electric buses of the Moscow assembly plant are being run-in. The first 10 units will go on routes in early June. The plant has been opened by Russian vehicle manufacturer Kamaz. The production site is located on ...

Alternative drives are on a rise, e-bus market in Europe saw a growth of over 20% in 2020, with zero emission vehicles making up 15% of the city bus registration. And Solaris Bus & Coach is at the forefront of this transition, with a market share of 20%. We discussed with Mateusz Figaszewski, E-...

CaetanoBus sells its first two fuel cell buses for the domestic market. These are the first hydrogen vehicles ever ordered in Portugal. Cascais Municipality announced yesterday, 31th May, the purchase of two Caetano H2.CityGold. The bus has been recently tested in Spain by ALSA. Still in Spain, eigh...

125 e-buses to be introduced by 2030 in Sydney, alternative drive bus deployment in Uppsala. Keolis has been awarded two bus contracts in Australia and Sweden respectively. Precisely, on 28 May 2021, the public transport company won an 8-year contract by Transport for New South Wales to operate and ...

29 new Volvo 7900 Electric Articulated have just been put in operation in Aarhus in Denmark. The second biggest city in Denmark is the latest of several cities to implement electric buses on a larger scale. In June 2020 the six largest Danish municipalities set a commitment to buy only zero emission...

Solaris will supply six Urbino 12 electric buses in Switzerland, following the awarding of a tender: three to Verkehrsbetriebe Luzern (VBL Luzern) and three to Zugerland Verkehrsbetriebe AG (ZVB Zug). The deliveries are scheduled for October 2021. Solaris has just signed a framework agreement with a...

Today VDL Bus & Coach unveiled the VDL Citea new generation during a web event addressed at specialized press. According to the information previously released, the new product family is the outcome of a new concept entirely developed on an electric driveline. And, for the first time, it will ho...

Hyzon Motors announced it is taking part to Utrecht province commitment at increasing the deployment of hydrogen vehicles and infrastructures. The company, whose European subsidiary is headquartered in the Netherlands, will be supplying a wide batch of fuel cell vehicles. Here, the lion’s shar...

Following deliveries in Turin for GTT and Madrid for EMT, BYD today announces that the group has won a major fleet order with Bergkvarabuss in Sweden (Skåne region) for a total of 79 pure-electric eBuses, split as below: 43 Class-II low-entry 13-metre BYD eBus model 32 low-entry 15-metre BYD eBus mo...