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Skoda Electric and Proton Power System has signed a letter of intent in order to jointly develop, sell and service fuel cell electric buses using Proton’s modular HyRange systems. The first outcome of the cooperations is expected to debut on the road by the first quarter of 2020. Cooperation between...

A shutdown? A normal situation in off-season period? BYD factory in Guangzhou (jointly managed with GAC group) temporarily halted operations, sending workers in leave till 31st May. A decision that would be connected to a slow down of Chinese electric bus market caused by the decrease of government ...

New Flyer Xcelsior CHARGE H2. The North American manufacturer unveiled the Xcelsior Charge H2, thus becoming the first company in the US to offer two models of hydrogen bus, both eligible for federal funding. In fact, the 40 foot as well as the 60 foot (12.1 and 18.2 meter) model have successfully c...

Zaragoza (Spain) will have a Solaris Urbino 12 Electric on a trial over some weeks. The line tests will be carried out by the local carrier Avanza Zaragoza. One out of three buses sold by Solaris in 2018 were alternative drive vehicles. During last year, 107 Solaris battery electric buses were deliv...

Not only Chile: BYD delivered 20 electric buses in Ecuador. The buses started operation in Guayaquil, the country’s second biggest city and are deployed by the private bus operator Saucinc. The order follows a pilot held between November 2017 and March 2018: the BYD electric bus carried a tota...

Birmingham Airport has awarded Volvo Bus UK the contract to supply the airport with six Volvo 7900 Electric. The buses are scheduled to start operation in November 2019. They’ll be employed for free passenger transport service via all airport car park routes. Volvo 7900 Electric, 80 % less ene...

Five Volvo electric buses have just started regular operation in the city of Leiden, the Netherlands. Further 18 will follow. The buses are part of an order of 23 fully electric buses from public transport company Arriva (which operates in 14 countries around Europe) in the Netherlands. The contract...

The very first order for Alstom Aptis has been signed. Strasbourg public transport company CTS (Communauté des Transports Strasbourgeois) just purchased 12 Aptis, the first electric bus realized by Alstom. They’ll be also the first electric buses in CTS’s fleet. Serial production of the ...

Electric buses employed as airport shuttles. It happens in Brussels, where a fleet of BYD ebuses began operations a few days ago for the transport of passengers from the gate to the plane. This is a further effort made by Brussels Airport, which in 2018 declared that it had achieved carbon neutralit...

More than 160 electric buses will hit the streets of the new concession Groningen-Drenthe, in the Netherlands. The public transport operator Qbuzz, owned by Italian railways FS, will receive the large batch of vehicles from three manufacturers: the largest fleet will be provided by Ebusco with 60 eb...