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The MAN Lion’s City E has been chosen as the winner of the iF Gold Award in the “Automobile/Vehicle/Bike” category by the design judging panel of the iF International Forum. The bus design team has now won an iF Design Award for the fifth year running. This year, also BYD won a prize at the [&hellip...

North America’s first cluster dedicated to researching battery electric and fuel cell electric buses has been launched by CUTRIC (The Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium) together with seven partners. CUTRIC and its members are contributing a total of $4.2 million in fund...

BYD 12-meter eBus has been crowned with the iF Design Award in the public transport category. The award was addressed at the ‘Home from Home’ design concept, that BYD showed at Busworld Brussels in October 2019. 7,300 participants from 56 countries entered the design competition – first conceived in...

Ten e-buses for two zero-emissions lines. But also “zero costs” for passengers, that will travel on these routes for free. Two bus lines entitled “zero emissions, zero costs” have been launched today in Madrid. EMT Madrid is going to operate ten Irizar ie bus battery-electric...

Auckland goes electric with CRRC. The CityLink bus services will be operated with electric buses only from the end of this year, the Government of New Zealand says. Auckland Transport and its operator NZ Bus will soon get 12 electric buses built by the Chinese group CRRC. These will be joining eight...

EMT Madrid has approved a 35 million euros investment for the purchase of 50 new electric buses. The tender will be divided into two lots, and the delivery period is scheduled between September and December 2020. This new call for tender is the largest in the history of EMT Madrid with regards to el...

Karsan attended EcoFest Athens 2020 with the Jest Electric and delivered the vehicles to the West Attica University in Greece. The event, themed around sustainable development, was jointly held by the DEPA company and the Municipality of Athens. Karsan Jest Electric at EcoFest Athens 2020 Equipped w...

Stagecoach opens the path to the deployment of electric double decker buses by BYD ADL outside London. Two units of Enviro400EV have reached their destination, the city of Cambridge, where they’ll be in operation from 17th February for Stagecoach. Alexander Dennis has supplied the electric dou...

VDL announces its first ‘electric’ project in Italy. A news anticipated yesterday by the interview published on these pages at CEO Henk Coppens. Coming soon: 4 VDL Citea SLF-120 Electric for Malpensa airport. The batch of buses will run between the car parks, terminals 1 and 2, and Cargo...

VDL Bus & Coach is ready for the breakthrough in Italy with the zero emission range (today only Class III vehicles are commercialized in the country): the first units are headed to Malpensa airport. And pilots on hydrogen are continuing at full speed, building the future of coaches (and heavy-du...