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Berlin electric bus fleet ‘grows up’ thanks to a new order for no less than 90 Solaris Urbino 12 electric. They’ll be delivered to BVG from spring 2020 on and will feature electric heating system and pantograph for fast charging. The contract, including charging infrastructures, is...

The one held in Stockholm last week has been the «biggest edition yet» for the UITP Global Public Transport Summit, according to the figures released by the organization. In Sweden were gathered 474 exhibitors from 46 countries. The program was enriched by 53 sessions featuring 300 speaker...

Otokar took the chance of the UITP Summit 2019 to launch its first electric bus. 12 meter long, the e-Kent C (electric variant of the conventional ICE bus Kent C, diesel or gas fuelled) features a brand new design and will be available in Europe in 2020. Otokar has already started to participate to ...

A new supply is going to bring to 411 the zero emission buses in Santiago de Chile. A few days ago the Chilean Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications, Gloria Hutt, announced a new order for 183 BYD electric buses for the Chilean capital city. They are expected to arrive already in August ...

ABB portfolio of solutions for electric buses’ charging has been enriched with a new protagonist: the Swiss group has launched the flexible and automated Panto Up pantograph, designed to make recharging operations more efficient, especially in the case of large fleets of vehicles, where the ne...

Public transit leaders know that zero-emission buses are critical to the future of transit. In fact, many regions around the world are setting goals to convert entire fleets to zero emission operation. Electric buses are a well-proven solution. The challenge now is how to grow transit fleets from 10...

Take a standard diesel bus, remove the internal combustion engine and replace it with electric axle (by ZF) and battery pack. Here we are: a new (more or less…) electric bus is ready for the road. With the awareness that this is a compromise solution, useful during a transition period that may...

65,000 employees, 16 countries, a dozen modes of transport operated including bike and car sharing. Keolis is one of the world’s leading public transport groups. Although it prefers to define itself a ‘shared mobility’ operator. In this talk with Sustainable Bus, Keolis’ Inte...

A follow-up and a debut. 20 zero emission buses for Madrid and 13 for Vitoria-Gasteiz. Irizar e-mobility secures two orders in the domestic market. What is more, the supply for the capital city will bring to 35 the number of Irizar electric buses in operation for EMT. In the case of Vitoria-Gasteiz,...

Following the success of our sell-out event in 2017. UITP and Busworld have joined forces once again to bring you an unmissable event.