News

Hyzon Motors is a new player approaching worldwide the fuel cell bus segment. Yes, the focus is on trucks… but buses will be part of the game, too. An important part. Maybe in partnership with bus builders. We discussed with Hyzon Motors’ CEO Craig Knight the future strategies of the com...

The rollout of Scania electric buses is set to increase in Sweden together with the operator Vy Buss. The operator, in fact, ordered ten new Scania Citywide LF Electric. The vehicles will operate in Östersund city, which has set a long-term plan for the transition to full electric transport. In the ...

In March 2021 Ebusco will deliver 4 new electric buses to the district town of Bad Tölz, in the German state of Bavaria. These are the first electric buses to be used in Upper Bavaria. Each bus will cover an average of 60,000 kilometres per year. This will save 240,000 kg CO2 per year, Ebusco [&hell...

Slightly over 1,000 battery-electric buses registered in Western European countries (with the addition of Poland) in the first three quarters of 2020. A year that, looking at the market, is following the same pattern as 2019: also last year there were a little over 1,000 zero emission buses over 6 t...

Star Charge has signed a contract with VinBus for largest-ever electric buses charging solution in the South Asia region. The deal was signed on 8th October 2020. VinBus is a subsidiary of Vingroup and was established in September 2019. The company is focused on e-bus deployment, where the e-buses a...

According to the order placed in 2019 by the Keolis Norge AS operator, Solaris will provide 10 Solaris Trollino 18 articulated trolleybuses to Bergen this year. First four of them just arrived to Norway’s second largest city. Official launch of all new trolleybuses is planned for beginning of ...

The European Commission is allocating €23 million in grants for the purchase of electric buses and the conversion of depots to electricity and bio-gas in Île-de-France region. Through this funding, the European Commission is supporting the commitment of Île-de-France Mobilités and RATP towards an ec...

Arriva Group has been awarded a new bus contract worth €259m in the south-west region of Lisbon, Portugal. The seven-year contract is due to start in October 2021 and will see Arriva operating 350 buses on 116 routes in the districts of Almada, Seixal and Sesimbra.  This includes 43 new routes, plus...

New tender has been opened for the purchase of 52 electric minibuses in Sofia (Bulgaria). The procurement has been issued by the public transport company Stolichen Avtotransport, as reported on SeeNews. The tender includes charging infrastructures. Tender for electric minibuses in Sofia It is the th...

VDL Bus & Coach is introducing VDL Pure Air Technology (for the Futura) and VDL Clean Air Technology (for Citea and Futura) as solutions developed in order to reduce the risk of Covid infection during the journey. VDL, ionisation process for bus disinfection Going into details, VDL Pure Air Tech...