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BYD Toyota EV Technology is the new joint venture company established by the two brands in order to conduct, together, research and development of battery electric vehicles. The efforts of the new JV, at this stage, are stated to be focused on the Chinese market. BYD and Toyota announced today, Apri...

The 13 e-buses of Stadtwerke Osnabrück are celebrating the first year of operation reaching the threshold of 730,000 km. And the electric ‘share’ of the fleet is set to grow: in February VDL started the production of the next 22 Osnabrück e-articulated buses, that will be followed by ano...

New Flyer announces that the Central Oklahoma Transportation and Parking Authority, operating as EMBARK, has awarded New Flyer a contract for one battery-electric, thirty five-foot (10.6-meter) Xcelsior CHARGE transit bus. The zero-emission bus will be operated by EMBARK providing transit service to...

TMB Barcelona opts again for Solaris. Following a first deployment of five Polish-made electric buses, the biggest public transport operator in the capital city of Catalonia, Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB), has now finalized another order for 14 Solaris Urbino 18 electric buses. Buses t...

March 1 – March 4 The Bus and Coach Trade Fair FIAA is a biennial event based in Madrid. It is the leading fair in Spain and Portugal for the sale of services, materials and components for bus fleets. In July 2020, the exhibition has been postponed to March 2021, «when the economic and sanitar...

Bus disinfection through UV lights. Following a guidance issued by the National Health Commission, a Shanghai public transport company uses UV light on the bus interiors and exteriors as a way of disinfection. According to the company, the process takes 5 to 7 minutes per bus and kills more than 99....

FIAA confirms the appointment for 6-9 October 2020. Given the situation caused by the COVID 19 and aware of the difficulties that this industry is going through, the exhibition wishes to contribute towards normalising the sector as soon as possible. Therefore, IFEMA announces it is maintaining the d...

Mercedes eCitaro REX. So it’ll be named the eCitaro with fuel cell range extender, that the German operator SWEG intends to use in regular service in southern Baden (Germany) from 2022. Mercedes announced yesterday the letter of intent signed with the public transport company. The bus will be ...

80 per cent of Jaworzno bus fleet, in Poland, will be zero emission once a new contract for 20 electric buses will be completed. Solaris Bus & Coach announces it has received another order from public transport operator PKM (Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacji Miejskiej). The contract stipulates the de...

BVG is considering a trolleybus-based solution in Berlin‘s Spandau district. A network that might in the future be served by bi-articulated vehicles equipped with In Motion Charging technology. According to a study realized by the German public operator, partial electrification by overhead lin...