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The new Irizar ie bus is ready for the market. It features a series of technological innovations that make it a highly implemented version of the range so far commercialized by the Spanish group. The Irizar ie bus is the ‘heir’ of the Irizar i2e which was the first zero emission vehicle ...

BYD in Los Angeles takes the largest order of electric buses so far signed in the US. Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) in fact ordered 130 battery-electric K7M buses, the largest single order of battery-electric buses to date in the United States. On the other side of the Atlantic oc...

ZF joins the MaaS Alliance, a pan-European interest group of companies and public and private societies that aims to bring about a paradigm shift in urban mobility, promote networked mobility concepts, and create uniform standards for technologies and legislation. City centers ask for integrated mob...

A bus that can move electrically and independently, without driver on board, within the depot? It’s already here. Volvo Buses has recently held a live demonstration of a 7900 Electric city bus equipped for autonomous driving. The demonstration took place in cooperation with Keolis in a depot j...

BYD and VDL lead the electric bus boom in Western Europe (and Poland). In the first nine months of 2019 the two manufacturers have delivered the same number of battery-electric buses (205), and thus they are sitting together on the top of the electric bus maker’s chart in terms of registration...

Alabama is ready to see the first electric buses in operation. AAMU Transportation is going to unveil today, 13th November, two Proterra zero emission buses. They’ll be deployed within the Bulldog Transit System (BTS) inside the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The deliver...

70 to 75 thousand are produced every year by Cummins for the global bus market. The name of the bigger independent engine builder in the world is nearly synonymous of ‘internal combustion engine’. But things are changing, and Cummins is reorganizing its activities around a new pillar: el...

Rampini and CaetanoBus, two ‘families’ of electric buses become… one. The Italian company Rampini incorporates the CaetanoBus e.City Gold (10.7 and 12-meter version); CaetanoBus includes in its portfolio the short electric buses Rampini E60 and E80. Therefore, as a result, both man...

by Stefano Alfano Trolleybus returns to Prague. 47 years later. From the beginning of July, passengers can take advantage of the new trolleybus service, currently carried out with one vehicle, on line 58 that connects Palmovka (Metro B) and Letňany (Metro C), with a length of 5 km. In Prague, the tr...

Navistar approaches the era of electric truck and bus development. The American company has launched a new business unit to this purpose, named NEXT eMobility Solutions. Vehicles developed by NEXT, based in Detroit, will be offered under the umbrella of Navistar subsidiaries International Truck and ...