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The go-ahead has been given: over 470 million euros will be allocated from the Italian government for the reorganization and expansion of Genoa trolleybus system (and of the public transport network of the city as a whole). According to the ambitious plan proposed by the Genoa City Council earlier t...

Fuel cell buses in Hamburg. The operator Hamburger Hochbahn has launched a tender for the supply of up to 50 fuel cell buses for the years 2021 to 2025. The invitation to tender is split in four lots. The operator intends to buy both fuel cell buses and battery-electric buses with fuel cell range ex...

Jean-Luc Deflandre has been appointed as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of Vėjo projektai, companies group producing Dancer Bus. He has gained experience in the e-bus field with positions in Ebusco and BYD. Earlier this year, European Energy Efficiency Fund (eeef) and Dancer manufacturer have announ...

BYD has handed over its first electric buses in Germany. The landmark moment was celebrated a few days ago when the operators BOGESTRA (Bochum-Gelsenkirchener Straßenbahnen) and HCR (Straßenbahn Herne-Castrop-Rauxel) have taken delivery of the first vehicle in a joint fleet order for 22 eBuses from ...

Ploiești, in Romani, has opted for 20 low-floor Solaris Trollino 12 trolleybuses. According to the contract worth PLN 36 million, the vehicles will have been delivered within two years from the signing date. These will add to electric vehicles made by the Polish manufacturer on Romanian roads. The o...

De Lijn and VDL Bus & Coach take a further step in their cooperation next with 70 hybrid buses. The Flemish passenger transport company De Lijn just placed an order for 70 Citeas SLFA-180 Hybrid that will be delivered in the second half of 2021 and will operate at various locations in Flanders. ...

Below, a contribution sent to Sustainable Bus by Roeland Reesinck, Energy transition consultant. This content was published on the Dutch financial newspaper ‘Het Financieele Dagblad’. Opinions, reactions, suggestions: info@sustainable-bus.com  Recently, the European Commission ...

BYD has completed a delivery of ten eBuses to public transport operator Tüke Busz Zrt, in the southern Hungarian city of Pécs. This supply marks the start of the first ever electric bus operation in the city. The vehicles were manufactured at BYD’s state-of-the-art production facility in Komárom, al...

Smart charging infrastructures for ATM Milano. The public transport operator has awarded CalBatt MaeStor platform for optimized charge balancing at the Milan San Donato depot. The city is targeting the full conversion of the bus fleet to electricity by 2030. Nearly 30 battery-electric buses from Sol...

Optimal Electric Vehicles is entering the electric bus market with the launch of the battery-electric S1LF Low-Floor shuttle bus for the North American market. The S1LF integrates a quasi-purpose-built Ford E450 chassis platform, which has been fully optimized with the vehicle body and achieves a lo...