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The domestic manufacturer Van Hool, based in Belgium, is displaying at Busworld 2019 an hydrogen BRT bus and an electric coach for US market, plus a new variant of the EX coach that features a lenght of 10.5 meter (the shorter in the gamma, in the picture at the bottom of the article). Van Hool, new...

Daimler Buses puts its electric bus Mercedes eCitaro in the spotlight at Busworld 2019 together with other 7 vehicles. Eight buses and coaches are being showcased by Mercedes and Setra from 18th to 23rd October in Brussels. The Busworld is also the occasion for the world premiere of the new Sprinter...

«Solaris is the first manufacturer in Europe in terms of contracts for electric buses signed in 2019». Take Solaris Bus & Coach‘s CEO Javier Calleja words for it. The company displayed three emission-free vehicles at the Busworld exhibition: Urbino 12 hydrogen, Urbino 18 electric and the b...

After one year trial in Gothenburg, the Volvo 7900 Electric Articulated is ready for serial production with new driveline (in-wheel electric motor developed in house) and more battery capacity, that can reach up to 396 kWh. The zero emission bus was unveiled to the large public in Brussels during Bu...

Busworld Europe is heavily growing. There were 66 bus manufacturers in 2017, this year the figure has risen to 75. Busworld 2019 is attended by 510 exhibitors, there were 367 in 2017. A growth of the 28 per cent. At Brussel Expo there will be 310 vehicles inside, plus 42 outside for demonstration. W...

The electric bus fleet in Berlin is powered by a network of 30 DC fast chargers with a total capacity of over 3MW, supplied by XCHARGE and the utility service company Stromnetz Berlin. And XCHARGE won’t be missing the Busworld 2019 in Brussels, where it will present its new fast chargers tailo...

Alstom will present the first serial vehicle of its Aptis electric bus at Busworld 2019, being held in Brussels from 17 to 23 October. After the four prototypes that have been on the roads of many French and European cities for the past two years, this new design incorporates feedback from passenger...

It is expected to be the biggest electric bus fleet ever delivered in one year in Europe from a single manufacturer. As of November 2020, 156 Ebusco vehicles will be in operation in Schiphol’s area, north of Amsterdam, and in the inner city of Haarlem. They’ll be operated by Connexxion (...

Iveco Bus, CATP (the central office for public transport purchases) and Ile-de-France Mobilités have sealed their collaboration by announcing a record-breaking order: as many as 409 Iveco Urbanway Natural Power will be included in the public transport network of the inner and outer suburbs of the Pa...

A cooperation between VDL and Siemens will investigate new charging technology with focus on the bi-directional charging for fleets of electric buses and electric trucks. In the spotlight of the partnership there will be the following main topic: how vehicle technologies, energy storage and charging...