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Irizar e-mobility expands its activities in central Europe: the Swiss city of Schaffhausen just ordered 15 zero emission buses with charging infrastructure after a tendering process. This order follows the one signed by German city of Düsseldorf  for 10 vehicles. What is more, in Schaffhausen projec...

Solaris CNG buses will make their way (for the very first time) to Warsaw, where public transport operator Arriva ordered 54 units of Urbino articulated. The vehicles will transport Warsaw residents on a daily basis, after the carrier won the public tender for operating selected bus lines in the cap...

The first Belgium’s BRT like system will see 14 Van Hool Equi.City 24 meter long operating between Bruxelles Airport Zaventem and Bruxelles Expo in September. The order come from the Flemish public transport operator De Lijn. The vehicles will thus be running during Busworld Europe 2019, the 2...

Three months pilot in Barcelona are behind it: now Ayats is working on the optimization of an electric open top bus for city sigthseeing. A segment that see the Spanish company well established in the European market. After all, according to the policies of municipalities, city centers will increasi...

San Francisco International Airport (SFO) has purchased six Proterra Catalyst E2 electric buses (40 foot – 12 meter length) and three 60 kW Proterra plug-in chargers. SFO thus joins a growing list of airports across North America transitioning to electric buses for airport ground transportatio...

Arcola Energy will open a new facility in Liverpool. The UK based company working on hydrogen and fuel cell technology will house manufacturing, installation and maintenance facility in the Liverpool City Region borough of Knowsley. The new site will be first used to produce and install hydrogen fue...

Four city buses and twenty taxis from today on are being powered with biomethane produced in a local plant. It’s happening in Bologna: the project is involving public transport company TPER as well as taxi operatore CO.TA.BO. Biomethane comes from Hera Group plant in S. Agata Bolognese and der...

Melbourne has taken over the first units of the single largest hybrid bus order in Australia. The contract concerns the supply of 50 hybrid buses (based on Volvo hybrid driveline with Volgren bodywork) for Victoria’s public transport network, to be operated by CDC Victoria, a subsidiary of Com...

Huludao PT (Huludao Public Transport), in Chinese province of Liaoning, ordered 83 Yutong full electric buses. So far, the public transport company has totally 441 Yutong buses in the fleet, and 286 units of them are new energy buses. Yutong, 90,000 electric buses sold to date The first full electri...

Oregon public transport operator TriMet has taken over its first battery electric bus in the framework of a pilot test aimed at evaluating the behavior of electric buses under real conditions. New Flyer supplied the first Xcelsior Charge electric bus a few days ago. Four other units will follow. Cha...