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The city hall of Gdynia, in Poland, has signed a contract with Solaris for the delivery of 30 trolleybuses worth over 22 million euros in total. Thanks to Solaris’ winning bid, the fleet of PKT will welcome in its ranks a batch of articulated Trollino 18, although the order also consists of Trollino...

Ten electric Solaris Urbino 12 buses will reinforce the fleet of Hamburg public transport operator Hochbahn. In line with the agreement two of the commissioned vehicles shall be supplied in autumn this year. The remaining ones will be handed over in September 2019. Hamburg going to buy only ebuses T...

Cng buses, 150 Urbanway Natural Power will hit the road of Paris from 2019 as part of the French city’s “BUS 2025 plan” that aim to replace its entire fleet with non-polluting vehicles. Iveco Bus has recently won the tender for the delivery of articulated vehicles to Ratp, that will run ...

A bus fleet that runs on… waste. Lille, northern France, prides itself on having the largest fleet of natural gas buses in Europe. More specifically: biomethane that comes from household waste. Iveco Bus and the transport operator Keolis are the main actors in the project. Cnh Industrial dedic...

The hybrid bus Enviro 400H double-decker by Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) and BAE Systems technology with Series-E hybrid technology is ready for London. 39 units of the bus have been delivered to Go-Ahead. And other 26 are on order. Using ultra-capacitor energy storage to further reduce life cycle...

Electric buses will debut in 2019 on the streets of Lillehammer, in Norway. Volvo Buses has received an order for two Volvo 7900 Electric from the public transport administration company Opplandstrafikk in Lillehammer. Unibuss in charge of the service for public transport and will deploy the electri...

Crucial years are coming. 2018 and 2019 are supposed to be two important years for the beginning of the transition of European public transport to lower emission. Man has recently showcased the new Lion’s City. What about the electric version? The new Lion’s City will be the base for the elect...

Solaris Bus & Coach is at the moment the European leader in electric buses, with a market share of 18 per cent. Interviewed by Sustainable Bus, Mateusz Figaszewski, director e-mobility development in Solaris, outlines the brand strategy in the field of zero mobility vehicles. Vehicles that, now,...

It has been the first tender aiming to the electrification of Bvg fleet in Berlin, starting with 30 electric buses 12 meters long. The transport operator is now checking the offers, and preparing a new tender for articulated buses, electric as well, that allegedly will be released shortly. Bvg and t...

Norway bets on Vdl Bus & Coach. The transport operator Unibuss has recently placed an order for 40 electric Citeas. This includes 30 Citeas SLFA-180 Electric and 10 Citeas SLF- 120 Electric that will serve the Greater Oslo Region. This order (the largest one for electric buses in Scandinavia for...