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Nobina bets again on BYD with two separate deliveries this week totaling 34 electric buses for operations with public transport authorities in Linköping and Halland, in Sweden. Nobina’s total intake of electric bus units from BYD now exceeds 160 units, either in operation or on order, BYD points out...

Utrecht has witness the first days in operation of further 20 Ebusco zero emission buses. With a peculiarity: they are being deployed on regional routes. At the beginning of June, the Dutch company in fact delivered a batch of 20 Ebusco 2.2 to Qbuzz, a subsidiary of Busitalia, in Utrecht. This bring...

Transdev’s ambition is to electrify 100% of its fleet of school buses in Québec by 2025. Its subsidiary Transdev Canada, present in Québec and Ontario, announces that it has decided – as part of its energy transition strategy – to invest nearly €3 million in a fleet of 27 electric ...

Siemens Smart Infrastructure has been awarded the contract for the energy supply of Leipzig’s 21 electric low-floor buses, manufactured by VDL. The vehicles will be charged both at the depot and on-route (via on-board pantograph and contact hood with 100 and 450 kilowatts). Another cooperation...

MAN has been provisionally awarded the contract for the supply of 150 mild hybrid buses for ATM Milano. Following the awarding, a first order of 60 vehicles will be supplied within 2021. The news is reported on the Italian specialized magazine AUTOBUS. This was the first tender ever issued by ATM fo...

Alexander Dennis Limited announces that CEO Colin Robertson is poised to take the position of Vice Chair in NFI’s Board of Directors. The change will be effective from 30th September 2020. Robertson’ll be succeeded by Paul Davies, today Regional Manager Director based in Hong Kong, as ADL’s Pr...

Charging infrastructure supplier Heliox joins forces with PRE Power Developers, targeting a leading position in the EV energy management segment. The alliance between the two companies, both based in the Netherlands, is the consequence of the fact that Waterland Private Equity Investments, that alre...

In Santiago de Chile there is room for a third Chinese manufacturer. While BYD and Yutong have already completed the delivery of large fleets of battery-electric buses (BYD received one year ago a follow-up order for 183 vehicles), Foton AUV is currently supplying a further batch of 215 e-buses. For...

Keolis Chairman Patrick Jeantet has been dismissed by the Supervisory Board after just four months at the helm of the French public transport company. Keolis Supervisory Board «has noted significant strategic differences with the Chairman of the Executive Board, Patrick Jeantet, since he took office...

TMB will welcome in its fleet 8 fuel cell buses, and a filling station will be built thanks to a cooperation between the public transport company and the Zona Franca Consortium. The tender for the vehicles is currently underway. Zona Franca Consortium (CZFB) and Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona...