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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...

AMT Genoa goes with Irizar e-mobility for its first standard-size electric bus order. The operator has signed a contract for 14 Irizar ie bus 10.8m long electric buses and their charging facilities, following a European call for tender. The Irizar zero‑emissions buses (ie bus range has been recently...

Diesel buses converted by e-troFit will be equipped with Voltabox battery system. ZF drivetrains will thus go along with Voltabox technology. More information are becoming official about e-troFit kit for conversion of diesel buses to zero emission ones. A new venture presented during UITP Summit in ...

Chinese manufacturer of electric buses will be producing in Bulgaria in a new 25 million euros plant. The Chinese companies ACN Worldwide and Jiangsu Alfa Bus in fact have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bulgaria’s investment agency for cooperation in the construction of a 25 m...

VDL Bus & Coach is celebrating the milestone of 50 million ‘electric’ kilometres with the launch of a new range of batteries, that can reach a capacity of 525 kWh. The 670 Citea Electric currently on the road in Europe are running for an average of 130,000 km every day. At the same t...

In 2019 the European electric bus market set a new record tripling the figures of 2018. Nearly 12 per cent of city buses registered in 2019 were battery-electric. But things are going to get even deeper, very soon: Interact Analysis forecasts that “approximately 40% of new city buses registere...