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In Malaga rapid charging of buses happen… through the ground. In the Spanish city, Alstom has installed for the first time its new SRS system dedicated to ebuses. The world premiere is part of the European project Paloma, and sees Alstom in the role of supplier of the SRS charging system. The ...

RATP has a fleet of 4,700 buses in Paris and is pursuing the target of converting the whole fleet to low and zero emission buses by 2025. In that year, two thirds of the fleet must be electrically powered, one third biogas powered. The effort realized by RATP with public transport authority Ile-de-F...

ADL will supply six electric buses in New Zealand, powered with BYD technology. They’ll be the new variant of the Enviro200EV with a lenght of 11.6 meter, recently announced. The buses will be delivered in mid-2020 to Fullers360, and will mean the beginning of the conversion of bus services on...

Zero emission mode in the city centre, diesel powered for the rest of the route. The British manufacturer Alexander Dennis delivered 30 new hybrid buses to Brighton & Hove (they will start operations in October). They are equipped with BAE Systems’ series hybrid technology. These vehicles will s...

More electric vehicles on the roads mean less noise and pollution… but also safety concerns. That’s why Forman Vehicle Services will be introducing the new V-AVAS Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System at Busworld Europe 2019 (after attending Coach & Bus UK on 2-3 October in Birmingham). T...

Solaris hydrogen bus debuts on Polish market in the framework of a roadshow that has already seen the vehicle being tested by carriers in Austria, Italy and Germany over the past few weeks. Today, it has been displayed in Poznań. It is the début of that bus (already ordered in Bolzano) on the Polish...

There’s only #ONEPLANet. UITP is launching a new campaign focused on the climate crisis. In this regards, the international association of public transport is calling on all decision makers to place public transport at the heart of their agenda in order to lower local air pollution. The Climat...

The 11 meter electric bus by BYD and ADL gets an upgrade. This is what the two companies announced today. The new Enviro200EV family will features a new ADL heat pump and optimised vehicle layouts. ADL in May 2019 has been taken over by the Canadian group New Flyer Industries (Nfi) for 405 million d...

Almost 200 new city buses are bound to Trondheim. To be precise, 189 MAN Lion’s City will be delivered to the Norwegian city. With a specification that must be underlined: the new vehicles will be powered by biogas or biodiesel. In the same city of Trondheim, 190,000 inhabitants, the deliverie...

The manufacturer is not specified, but according to Akasol words it’s the “one of the world´s leading commercial vehicle manufacturers”. And it’s “globally operating”. What the battery supplier announces is a high three-digit million-euro range follow-up order. Fr...