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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...

Hyzon Motors has launched activities in Australia. The hydrogen commercial vehicle manufacturer is in the process of setting up technical support and project management capabilities serving the markets in Australia and New Zealand, as reported on H2-view.com. The beginning of assembly of fuel cell t...

Karsan announces the signature of the first order for its Autonomous Atak Electric. BSCI, a leading technology company in Romania, ordered one Autonomous Atak Electric to use it in the Industry Park in the city of Ploiești. Autonomous Atak Electric will be on pilot service in a pre-designated projec...

27 Latin American cities and 1,229 electric buses in operation (413 of them are in Santiago de Chile), i.e. 1.27% of the total bus fleet in the considered cities. The Laboratório de Mobilidade Sustentável (LABMOB) has today launched the E-BUS RADAR platform in partnership with the ZEBRA project, whi...

15 BYD K9UB electric buses are now part of EMT Madrid fleet. Yesterday’s handover ceremony marks the first time that BYD has supplied vehicles to EMT Madrid, Spain’s largest public transport provider operating 2,100 vehicles. The new electric bus vehicles will be deployed on a new perimeter li...

Two Caetano H2.City Gold hydrogen buses will start operation later this year in Germany in the framework of eFarm project. The hydrogen bus bus has been launched at Busworld 2019 in Brussels. 2020 was then announced to be the year of the commercialization in Europe of the H2.City Gold, based on Toyo...