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Subsidies for electric buses. Green light from the European Commission: German fundings for e-buses grow up to 650 million euros. The European Commission approved an increase of 300 million. The German aid scheme is valid until the end of 2021 and covers the additional costs of purchasing electrical...

The first announcements from Alstom date back to spring 2017. Launch of the Aptis followed at Busworld 2017. In March 2019 the first order. At Busworld 2019 the public had the chance to see and touch the first series vehicle. Now the time for deliveries has started. Alstom is handing over the very f...

Volvo gets 60 further battery-electric buses ordered in Sweden. Nobina has just commissioned 60 Volvo 7900 Electric Articulated for Malmö. The city has already started to get experienced with e-buses: a first batch of 13 Volvo 7900 Electric started operation in late 2018. And in November 2019 the ma...

Translink is investing 4 million pounds for the purchase of its first hydrogen buses. The Northern Ireland’s public transport operator, as BBC reports, has in fact placed an order for three vehicles, with support by the government’s Office for Low Emission Vehicles. Translink buys hydrog...

The Republic of Ireland will receive up to 600 double-decker plug-in hybrid buses ADL Enviro 400ER. A first firm order for 100 buses is already underway. The deal has been announced today by Alexander Dennis Limited, who will therefore deliver hundreds of Enviro400ER, capable of running in zero emis...

It’s no novelty that Forsee Power is partnering with CaetanoBus for the battery-electric buses manufactured by the Portuguese company. Now the French supplier (which also equips Heuliez Bus and Alstom e-buses) announces that it has been involved also in the realization of the hydrogen bus Caet...

570 buses and 2,000 trucks have been travelling for more than 30 million kilometers on hydrogen. Ballard Power System, the leading supplier of fuel cell modules, announced that the company’s proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell technology and products have now successfully powered the so called ...

After Sileo, Bonn will welcome Solaris zero emission buses. The Polish brand has in fact won the tender for the supply of three articulated electric buses for the German city. It will be the first supply carried out by the manufacturer for the public transport operator of Bonn. The customer has deci...

Irizar e-mobility relies on green energy for the production of zero emission buses. The Spanish company has contribute to the opening of the largest photovoltaic solar farm in the Basque Country. Irizar Group is one of the largest investor of EKIAN farm with the acquisition of 3 MW. The energy gener...

Konvekta CO2-based thermal management system (with heat pump), addressed at the electric bus market, is now produced on a dedicated line. The serial produced of the system was launched in 2018. At the beginning the CO2-Heat Pump was manufactured on an already existing production line. But since Dece...