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A call for tender for 594 electric buses. Chinese manufacturers are on the front line. The maxi order is up for grabs in Colombian capitol city Bogotà, where the city government plans to introduce a large batch of electric buses into the urban public transport system, hitherto monopolised by diesel ...

Arriva Netherlands is scaling up on electric bus deployment. Limburg’s province, in South Netherlands, set an ambitious goal: by 2026 the whole public transport network must be fully electric. The delivery of 55 electric regional buses by VDL Bus & Coach is part of the itinerary that will ...

by Stefano Alfano Yesterday afternoon the first new generation trolleybus for ATM fleet landed in Milan, directly from Poland. Produced by Solaris Bus & Coach, with electric equipment by Kiepe Electric, the new articulated Trollino is the first of 80 vehicles (with possible option for further de...

5G technology can be used to control autonomous vehicles remotely. How? It was shown by Keolis and Ericsson during UITP Global Public Transport Summit 2019 in Stockholm. The public transport company is collaborating with Ericsson to use 5G technology to remotely control and supervise autonomous vehi...

UITP Global Public Transport Summit 2019 sees the ‘consecration’ of battery electric buses and relaunches hydrogen buses (at least in the world of product novelties). Solaris presented its Urbino 12 hydrogen, that promises an autonomy of 350 kilometers. This model is not just a concept: ...

Volvo articulated electric bus is now… reality. Or, better to say, it’ll be starting from this autumn. Volvo electric bus range is now enriched by the 7900 Electric Articulated. UITP Global Public Transport 2019 in Stockholm has been the occasion for the Swedish company to launch the 18 ...

VDL electric bus ‘family’ becomes larger. A 14.5 metre Citea Electric is the novelty announced today by VDL Bus & Coach in occasion of UITP Global Public Transport Summit 2019 in Stockholm. It’ll be in production next year. The new variant bus, thus, is not in display: instead,...

The first large order for the new generation MAN Lion’s City has been signed. 105 units of the bus will hit the roads of Barcelona for the operator TMB. 75 buses are equipped with natural gas drive, 30 with mild hybrid module called MAN EfficientHybrid, a novelty launched by MAN together with ...

Around two thirds of city bus operations will be electric by 2030. It’s the assumption that is guiding MAN Truck & Bus along a strategy that is culminating in the mass production of the MAN Lion’s City E from the second half of 2020, following trials that will take place in Hamburg, ...

The charging station has an heart of… battery. Heliox and InvertedPower announced their collaboration to bring to market a new generation of battery buffered high power charging stations. That is to say, charging stations where the energy provided to the vehicle comes both from the grid and fr...