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Navya and Bluebus initiate discussions with the aim of developing an autonomous 6-meter bus. The autonomous bus producer Navya has announced it has signed a non-binding letter of intent to collaborate in the development of an autonomous bus with the electric bus producer from Bollorè Group. Navya ha...

Five lots for a total value of around 116 million euros. These are the specifications of TMB tender for 210 electric and hybrid buses, just issued by the public transport company. The new vehicles are set to replace the same number of 15-year-old buses that will reach the end of their life between t...

British startup Arrival announced that it will begin trials of its zero-emission Bus with First Bus, one of the UK’s largest transport operators. The trials, which will see Arrival buses navigating existing First Bus routes in the UK, will begin this autumn. The new partnership comes just seven mont...

The City of Malaga and the transport operator Avanza put the Irizar brand first high capacity zero emissions autonomous bus into service. It’s a 100% electric zero emissions 12 metre long Irizar ie bus. it’s a pioneering project because it involves putting a standard size vehicle on the road in a re...

In the year of Covid, the battery-electric bus market increased of 22% in Western Europe (with the addition of Poland). 2,062 e-buses (trolleybuses excluded) were registered between 1 January and 31 December 2020, vs the 1,685 that debuted in 2019 (that, it is worth remembering, it has been a truly ...

BusTech Group announces it has confirmed as the only Australian bus company locally manufacturing zero-emission buses for the NSW market. BusTech Group’s ZDi electric bus has been indeed designed, engineered and built in Australia. Production of BusTech Group’s electric buses will commence in NSW in...

Another commercial success for Temsa in the e-bus field: the Turkish brand has announced it has won a tender held in Buzău, Romania. Temsa will then deliver four Avenue Electron e-buses by the end of 2021. Temsa has so far exported a batch of electric buses in Sweden and got the first order for vehi...

Following the experience gained in ATC Esercizio in La Spezia, a new Italian trial for the SmartBUS has started in Turin in cooperation with public transport operator GTT (that has recently placed an order for 100 battery-electric buses with BYD). The electric bus is on trial operation on line 19 in...

E-buses? 2021 will be the year of the Lion’s City E. And in four years time a new battery range will mean an significant upgrade in terms of capacity and range. Pantograph applications? Not excluded. The future of intercity services? Hydrogen is a good candidate. Covid? Huge repercussions on t...

55 Yutong e-buses have been delivered to Keolis for operations in Odense and the greater Copenhagen area, in Denmark. Keolis is now preparing the service launch of the e-buses in summer 2021, on behalf of Movia and FynBus, the local public transport authorities (PTAs). Keolis is to operate as many a...