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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...

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...