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Daimler Buses puts its electric bus eCitaro in the spotlight at Busworld 2019. Eight buses and coaches will be showcased by Mercedes and Setra from 18th to 23rd October in Brussels. The Busworld will also be the occasion for the world premiere of the new Sprinter Travel 75. Daimler at Busworld 2019,...

by Roberto Sommariva (AUTOBUS magazine) Arriva group is for sale. It is no longer a hypothesis but a certainty. The Arriva group, owned by Deutsche Bahn, will soon be sold, as already suggested a few months ago. In ‘pole position’ there would be three hedge funds (although some sources w...

A batch of BYD electric buses reached Jerusalem, where the Israeli operator Egged took delivery of ten 12-metre vehicles. A fleet that follows the previous delivery, the first ever, signed by the Chinese operator in Israeli territory (for the city of Haifa). This first order of 17 electric buses was...

Konin is the last Polish city to order Solaris electric buses. The value of the contract covering the purchase of six electric buses and of three chargers slightly exceeds PLN 16 million (3.7 million euros). The vehicles are to be delivered to the municipal operator Miejski Zakład Komunikacyjny (MZK...

Hydrogen BRT bus and an electric coach for US market. These are the main premieres Van Hool is going to showcase at Busworld 2019, together with a new variant of the EX coach that features a lenght of 11 meter (the shorter in the gamma). The articulated Exqui.City hydrogen powered is almost ready to...

Curtain has been risen on a new electric BRT line in French Basque Country, operated by Keolis through ten Irizar articulated electric buses. The line, 12 km long, features 30 stations and connects Bayonne with Biarritz in 30 minutes. A second line will be opened in 2020, when further 8 vehicles wil...

LFP battery industry must be grateful to Chinese electric bus market. While Western markets primarily use NMC formulas, in China LFP is the main technology. With China accounting for as many as 98 per cent of the electric buses in operation worldwide… the impact of this demand is huge. The top...

Flash charging ‘approaches’ Chinese market. ABB is going to ‘export’ the TOSA model (flash-charging during bus stops) in China thanks to an agreement signed with bus manufacturer King Long. According to the understatement, the two companies will jointly develop an ebus suitab...

Solaris is delivering three electric buses for the surroundings of Munich (on the MVV network). These will be the first zero emission buses by Solaris to be operated in Germany by a private company. The carrier, in fact, is the long term Solaris customer Josef Ettenhuber, that was the first to purch...

Hamburg will be the first city to test the Mercedes eCitaro with fuel cell range extender. The public transport company Hamburger Hochbahn is going to purchase 530 electric buses between 2021 and 2025. Also hydrogen applications will be in the spotlight. Starting in 2021, the operator will be field-...