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La Rochelle region, in France, is ready to get its four Alstom Aptis delivered. The buses are to be welcomed on the city streets in early 2021. They will join the Yélo fleet on the Illico 4 line linking Les Minimes to Beaulieu. The 1st will be put into circulation on 4 January. The vehicles were [&h...

100 BYD e-buses are poised to hit Turin streets, in Italy, following the tender issued in early 2020. Two bids were received, from Yutong and BYD. Yutong (with its partner Ares) placed first, but its offer was cancelled due to burocratic issues. Now the public transport company GTT made public that ...

Solaris announces it has completed the delivery of 90 Urbino 12 electric buses for Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG). This was one of the biggest contracts for battery-powered buses in Europe and the largest one for the manufacturer in Germany so far. Berlin now has a total of 123 electric Solaris bus...

Caetano fuel cell bus trial in Dublin successfully ended with 3,000km covered. The H2.CityGold demonstration that started in November has come to an end with an excellent feedback from the different parties involved, CaetanoBus points out. Last week a strategic alliance was announced between Toyota ...

The Netherlands has exceeded 1,000 electric buses in operation. In five years’ time, more than 20% of buses in Dutch public transport buses have become emission-free. Since 13 December, the e-buses operating in the contry are 1,163, almost 400 more than last year. The largest fleet runs in IJs...

At the beginning of December 2020, the Transports Publics Fribourgeois (TPF) put a batch of 10 battery-powered trolleybuses Hess lighTram 19 DC into service. These vehicles are bound to replace the old dual-mode buses on line 1 in Fribourg. Hess trolleybuses in Fribourg One of the ten battery-powere...

Market research company Berg Insight recently released a new paper about the market for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) for electric buses. The market value for electric bus ITS deployed in public transport operations in Europe was € 12.7 million in 2019. Growing at a compound annual growth rate...

Turkish commercial vehicle manufacturer Karsan delivered 14 Atak Electrics and 6 Jest Electrics to the Municipality of Dej in Romania. Karsan had won the tender funded by the European Union Regional Development Fund for the modernization of public transport systems run by the Municipality of Dej and...

Keolis has been awarded a bus contract worth €190 million by Nordjyllands Trafikselskab (NT), the public transport authority of the Northern Jutland region in north-western Denmark. The contract will start in August 2021. The Group will operate and maintain a total of 77 buses — including 67 fully f...

Blue Bird has added the 300th EV school bus to its order book. With a shift to greener solutions and cost savings initiatives, schools are now implementing alternative power solutions into their fleets, making demand for electric school buses substantially higher in 2020. Blue Bird now has over 300 ...