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ATM Milano, on the way to convert the whole bus fleet to electric drives, takes its relation with Solaris to a new level. Even the second tender, for up to 250 electric buses (much larger in size than the first, for 25 units), went to the Polish manufacturer. Two companies made their bids: Solaris a...

BYD opened its first bus assembly plant in Canada, the second in North America. The 13,000 square meter facility is located in Newmarket and will serve Canadian market, where the Chinese company is already present with buses on order (or in operation) in Toronto, Victoria, Longeuil, St. Albert and G...

Île-de-France Mobilités chose Keolis for the launch and operation of Tram 9 between Paris and Orly. The contract also includes the Bord de l’Eau bus network in the Val-de-Marne department. The public transport company, word leader in tram operations, has been awarded with a five-and-a-half-year publ...

Kamaz is investing 14 million euros to build a new production plant for electric buses in Moscow. At least 500 electric buses per year will be produced as soon as the plant will be fully operational. Also an R&D innovation center will be realized. 3.500 jobs for 500 ebuses per year The agreement...

Further 49 VDL articulated electric buses will join 13 units already in operation. The city of Osnabrück places itself at the forefront of the transition to zero emission buses in Germany. Today, Friday 5 July, signatures were placed on a new cooperation agreement between Stadtwerke Osnabrück and VD...

MAN is getting prepared for Busworld Europe 2019 and announced a couple of premieres. In Brussels, the curtain will be raised on the MAN Lion’s City 19 and on the MAN eTGE electric minibus. It was announced at the pre-Busworld press conference in Munich. The Lion’s Intercity equipped wit...

The bus market in Gothenburg goes to… Transdev! That will put on the road 160 electric buses. The public transport company announced it has been awarded a 10 year contract for a total value of €757 million from Västtrafik, the transit authority in the Västra Götaland region. Transdev...

ABB will power a 40 electric bus fleet in Singapore. Buses will start operation in 2020. The orders were received from BYD Singapore and ST Engineering Land Systems, two of the three companies awarded ebus contracts by Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA), ABB points out. The Swiss company prese...

Futher five German cities will take benefit of government grants for the purchase of electric buses. Aachen, Bochum, Gelsenkirchen, Duisburg and Offenbach am Main will globally receive some 14.3 million euros from the German Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMU). Money that will be used for the...

Four Alstom Aptis will be in operation in La Rochelle from the beginning of 2020. Serial production of the ebus, actually the first bus ever developed by Alstom, is expected to start in the third quarter of 2019. Four Alstom Aptis for La Rochelle BRT system The Greater La Rochelle area has just orde...