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Brakar in Norway has awarded a contract for bus services in Hemsedal and Hallingdal to Vy Buss AS. Today, the area is divided into three contracts, but Brakar said it has chosen to merge the entire area in order to get more competition. 34 buses are part of the contract: 10 of them will be converted...

New electric and commercial success for Volvo Buses in the home country Sweden: earlier this year, Vy Buss AB ordered 49 high-capacity Volvo 7900 Electric Articulated buses, the manufacturer points out. The new electric bus units, which are scheduled to enter operation in Jönköping, in summer 2021, ...

Silicon carbide semiconductors from Cree will contribute to power Yutong electric buses. The Chinese manufacturer will in fact deliver in China its first electric bus to use such technology. Cree has announced that its own 1200V silicon carbide devices are included in a StarPower power module for Yu...

The U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has introduced the Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (INVEST in America). It provides long-term funding for transportation infrastructure projects. The Center for Transportation and th...

Daimler Truck Fuel Cell is the new hydrogen subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG. The announce from Stuttgart has been released today, 8th June: the new company (whose full name is Daimler Truck Fuel Cell GmbH & Co. KG) is later to transition into a joint venture planned with Volvo Group, as announced...

Along with the first orders of battery-electric buses (with 23 vehicles ordered in early 2020), TMB Barcelona bets on gas-powered hybrid buses. A tender for 46 buses is out, the operator announces. 16 of them will be articulated. Last year, TMB Barcelona secured an order for as many of 105 MAN Lion&...

13 Yutong electric buses are headed to Leicester, where they’ll be “dressed up” with Roberts Travel Group’s livery and will convert the three park-and-ride services of the city to zero emission operations. The vehicles will be delivered by the dealer Pelican Bus & Coach. ...

130 million dollars grants for the purchase or lease of zero and low emission transit buses for the USA, with related charging facilities. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced a massive funding through the Low- or No-Emission (Low-No) Grant p...

Navya recruits Pierre Lahutte to speed up the industrialization of driverless applications. The French company of electric and autonomous driving systems just announced the strengthening of its management team with the appointment of Pierre Lahutte as Chief Strategy & Development Officer. Lahutt...

57 units are already in the order book. And the European tour continues. After tests held in Polish, German and Italian cities, the hydrogen bus Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen has now been presented in Vienna. Wiener Linien, one of the biggest public transport operators in Europe, has added the hydrogen...