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The Mercedes Citaro with natural gas drive (and mild hybrid module) gains ground in the Netherlands. From the end of August the EBS public transport company will be operating 93 of such vehicles in the Rotterdam – The Hague metropolitan area. The fleet is made up of 83 Citaro NGT hybrid solo b...

The Polish city of Ostrów Wielkopolski commissioned six Solaris Urbino 12 electric buses. The contract value amounts to slightly over PLN 16 million (3.5 million euros). In the city, four electric buses by Solaris have been riding on the streets since 2017. Pursuant to the newly signed contract, the...

Zaragoza took delivery of 17 new Volvo hybrid buses. The vehicles have been incorporated into the Avanza fleet. The new buses bring the average age of the public transport fleet of the Spanish city to a reduction of 8 per cent, thus stating at 8.3 years. Further 18 hybrid buses will soon be introduc...

August 2019 is the birth month of Proterra Powered project, a new initiative that see the Californian manufacturer ready to make its electric vehicle platform available for the needs of OEMs. The path is open to a new series of partnerships on the development of heavy duty commercial vehicles. Batte...

Daimler Buses has equipped its Mannheim bus plant with a central charging station for the electric bus Mercedes eCitaro. The new system can also be used to fill eCitaro’s batteries with electricity via a pantograph. The special feature of this charging station, Daimler points out, is that the ...

New York gets greener with New Flyer. After the order for 15 ebuses from New York City Transit, New Flyer has been chosen from the Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA) for the supply of four forty-foot (12 meter), battery electric buses Xcelsior CHARGE. New Flyer Infrastructure Solutions...

29 electric buses are due to operate in Barcelona following a call for tender that TMB is about to release. The procurement involves 23 articulated buses and 6 minibuses, all rigorously zero emission at the tailpipe. The Plan for the renewal of TMB bus fleet for the period 2019-21 contemplates an in...

Meritor announced it will supply axles, air disc brakes and right angle gear box from its Blue Horizon advanced technologies brand for the electric bus Alstom Aptis. Axles will be assembled in Cameri (Italy). This will be the first electrification project carried out by US based Meritor in Europe. B...

Oslo airport will take delivery of 8 VDL articulated electric buses. An order that will contribute to the further electrification of Avinor Oslo Airport, which is already one of Europe’s leading airports in terms of strict environmental requirements. Avinor aims to halve the total greenhouse gas emi...

Autonomous shuttle programme approaches the regular operation phase in Hamburg. A new minibus, electric and driverless, is going to be on the road by mid-2020 in the framework of HEAT (Hamburg Electric Autonomous Transportation) R&D programme, whose goal is to prove that autonomous shuttles can ...