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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 ...

BUS2BUS 2021 will only be digital, the exhibition has been rescheduled to 2022.

Ireland: the National Transport Authority (NTA) has commenced the procurement process for up to 800 double-deck battery electric buses. The tender has been published on 18th December. Expressions of interest required by 12th February 2021. The NTA says it intends to purchase up to 800 buses under th...

Parker Hannifin has announced the launch of the new GVM310 PMAC motor addressed at electric and hybrid on-road and off-road commercial vehicles market (e-buses included). Power levels up to 409 kW are available. Parker Hannifin, GVM310 electric motor for commercial vehicles Parker Hannifin, based in...

Ballard announces a follow-up order from bus builder Van Hool: 10 fuel cell modules will power A330 buses in the Netherlands. The hydrogen bus fleet will operate in Emmen under the JIVE2 funding program. To date, Van Hool fuel cell buses have travelled for 10 millions kilometres. 141 vehicles have b...

Three German cities place e-bus orders with VDL. 7, 6 and 3 VDL units of the Citea Electric will make it to Plön, Völklingen and Neuss respectively. Since the first 5 VDL Citeas SLF-120 Electric for Münster in 2015, VDL says that more than 100 fully electric vehicles have been delivered in Germany t...