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Coronavirus, good safety practices on board. Beyond bus disinfection, air conditioning systems are the ‘major suspects’ as potentially dangerous elements. What are the manufacturers’ indications? MAN Truck & Bus shares its recommendations on the topic, with Heinz Kiess, Head of...

ZF CeTrax, it’s time for series production. The central electric motore made in Friedrichshafen will join the well know AxTrax electric axle in order to widen the portfolio of zero emission drivetrains developed for commercial vehicles. Starting in the third quarter of 2020, ZF electric centra...

Brussels will witness an increasing number of Volvo hybrid buses on its streets. STIB-MIVB has indeed secured an order for no less than 128 hybrid buses from Gothenburg. In addition to the buses, the order encompasses options for servicing and maintenance for the traction chain and batteries. In Sep...

Sustainable Bus Award 2021 (SBY) has been cancelled. The awarding process this year will not take place. Organization committee and jury shared the decision of cancelling this edition of the award, that was supposed to be delivered in the second half of 2020, SBY announces with a press communication...

Today there are 500,000 e-buses in operation globally. And the share of battery-operated vehicles is bound to cover «over 67% of the global bus fleet in 2040». The figure and the forecast are pointed out in the newly-released Electric Vehicle Outlook 2020 by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). What...

What if… 10,000 new clean buses, either low and zero emission, will be put in service in the UK within the next four year? What if the benefits of lower pollution and better air quality towns and cities have experienced during the coronavirus lockdown will be maintained through a specific effo...

Keolis opts again for Yutong. 20 out of 70 buses in Odense (Denmark) will be replaced with Chinese-made zero emission vehicles. With regards to electric bus vehicles in the Scandinavian countries, it’s the second time in six months that the Paris-based public transport operator chooses the Chi...

«Last year, the Modi government in India introduced the second phase of the ‘Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid and) Electric Vehicles’ (FAME) incentive scheme which promotes the uptake of electrified vehicles using both supply- and demand-based subsidies. One of the main aims of the incen...

New commercial success for Ebusco in Germany. The Dutch manufacturer will deliver 13 electric buses Ebusco 2.2 to Frankfurt with the Transdev Group in the end of 2020. The model is already working in several German cities (amongst others in Munich, Wartburg and on the island Borkum) and in Dutch cit...

Covid-19 and air conditioning systems. The relation between the spread of the virus and the A/C is source for concerns from operators, manufacturers and, of course, public transport users. The German supplier Konvekta points out: «We believe that aerosol transmission (by air) of coronavirus is not t...