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BYD has delivered an additional 76 BYD eBuses to major Nordic public transport operator, Nobina, for use in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. The fulfilment completes Finland’s largest ever electric bus order – a 119-unit order for Nobina – and represents BYD’s second-ever delivery to Finland following...

Ingo Wortmann has been re-elected as VDV President. The Head of Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG) is then to remain at the helm of the industry association for another three years. At today’s extraordinary meeting of the Executive Committee of the Association of German Transport Companies (V...

An 8-meter e-bus for the cities, and a CNG-powered coach for intercity routes. Anadolu Isuzu is launching on the European markets two vehicles targeting two specific segments. An effort that shows how the company has been focusing on the development of new technologies for more environmentally frien...

Over 60 years experience in the railway motor’s business since a few years ‘poured’ into the electric bus market in the last decade. Austrian company TSA (Traktionssysteme Austria) has provided so far electric motors for vehicles operating in more than 60 countries all over the world. The ...

HEAG mobilo, a transport operator in Darmstadt (Germany), is planning to replace almost its entire bus fleet with vehicles that are 100 percent electrically driven in the next four years. On 27 August 2021, 24 fully-electric Mercedes eCitaro city buses officially began operations. This marks the fir...

A total of 21 VDL electric buses on three routes will be brought into service by Leipzig’s public transport operator, Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB), before the end of the year. To ensure they are charged efficiently and cost-effectively, LVB relies on the charge management system from INIT’...

Solaris will present its new Urbino 9 LE electric bus during a web event on September 30, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. CEST. As anticipated by Mateusz Figaszewski, Director of E-mobility Development, in an interview with Sustainable Bus published in May, the Solaris family of electrically-powered Urbino model...

27 days, 12 cities: 2,100 km travelling by Pepper Motion GmbH‘s etrofit bus on an electrifying roadshow trip through Poland. Together with its sales partner Green Transport sp. z o.o., Pepper Motion (formerly known as eTro-Fit) is presenting its award-winning retrofitting solutions for the ele...

Lion Electric has received an order for 35 LionC school buses from Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.), in Canada. The vehicles will join the 12 LionC buses already operating in the province, which have been servicing routes in the Charlottetown area since early 2021. Lion will also provide 35 Level 2 cha...

Park City, Utah – host to the Sundance Film Festival and several 2002 Winter Olympics events, and home of the U.S. Ski Team – has become the 500th city to boost the performance and efficiency of its public transportation network using Optibus, the technology company has made public in August 2021. O...