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TMB Barcelona opts again for Solaris. Following a first deployment of five Polish-made electric buses, the biggest public transport operator in the capital city of Catalonia, Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB), has now finalized another order for 14 Solaris Urbino 18 electric buses. Buses t...

March 1 – March 4 The Bus and Coach Trade Fair FIAA is a biennial event based in Madrid. It is the leading fair in Spain and Portugal for the sale of services, materials and components for bus fleets. In July 2020, the exhibition has been postponed to March 2021, «when the economic and sanitar...

Bus disinfection through UV lights. Following a guidance issued by the National Health Commission, a Shanghai public transport company uses UV light on the bus interiors and exteriors as a way of disinfection. According to the company, the process takes 5 to 7 minutes per bus and kills more than 99....

FIAA confirms the appointment for 6-9 October 2020. Given the situation caused by the COVID 19 and aware of the difficulties that this industry is going through, the exhibition wishes to contribute towards normalising the sector as soon as possible. Therefore, IFEMA announces it is maintaining the d...

Mercedes eCitaro REX. So it’ll be named the eCitaro with fuel cell range extender, that the German operator SWEG intends to use in regular service in southern Baden (Germany) from 2022. Mercedes announced yesterday the letter of intent signed with the public transport company. The bus will be ...

80 per cent of Jaworzno bus fleet, in Poland, will be zero emission once a new contract for 20 electric buses will be completed. Solaris Bus & Coach announces it has received another order from public transport operator PKM (Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacji Miejskiej). The contract stipulates the de...

BVG is considering a trolleybus-based solution in Berlin‘s Spandau district. A network that might in the future be served by bi-articulated vehicles equipped with In Motion Charging technology. According to a study realized by the German public operator, partial electrification by overhead lin...

BYD puts safety issues in the spotlight with the launch of the new battery system called ‘Blade Battery‘, a development set to mitigate concerns about battery safety in electric vehicles. The Chinese group, that before being one of the main electric bus manufacturer in the world is a bat...

Trolleybus equipped with hydrogen-powered range extender. An innovative concept that is carrying passenger on route 4 in Riga, Latvia’s capital city. The public transport operator Rīgas satiksme informed on 24th March 2020 that all the ten hydrogen-driven trolleybuses are now operational. The first ...

The contract for 130 articulated Solaris electric buses in Warsaw has been one of the main e-bus deal awarded in Europe in 2019. And it is becoming operational. The first Solaris Urbino 18 Electric started operation on line 503. And deliveries will be completed by the end of 2020, stated Solaris CEO...