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The battery trolleybus Iveco Crealis IMC is undergoing testing in Nancy (France). The two-wire trolleybus, already ordered by Limoges Métropole and winner of the Sustainable Bus Award 2019, is equipped with an original Skoda Electric powertrain and can run in zero emission mode without power supply ...

European Investment Bank (EIB) is granting a 73.5 million euros loan to public transport company TMB (Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona). The money will be used to buy 254 new buses. 116 of them will be electric buses. The new vehicles will be delivered according to a timeline that should be con...

UITP is proud to announce the launch of APOLLO-EU, a new platform that will bring together European transport authorities and operators to boost and support the exchange of knowledge and expertise on clean bus deployment. APOLLO-EU will be officially launched during the UITP Global Public Transport ...

Electric bus production, future scenarios, aftersales organization and new products. In this interview Petros Spinaris answers the question of Sustainable Bus. Spinaris has been appointed Deputy CEO of Solaris Bus & Coach at the beginning of May, after having joined the company in 2009. He is no...

An electric bus and a chassis developed for zero emission buses. CaetanoBus will attend the UITP Summit in Stockholm with two “zero emission” products. Both the ebus e.City Gold and the chassis e.CC 100 feature a central electric motor by Siemens. CaetanoBus is also jointly working with ...

A newly formed group of companies committed to produce a fuel cell bus (and infrastructure) that could be sustainable not only from the environmental… but also from the economical point of view. It’s the target of H2Bus Consortium, whose members are working together to deploy 1,000 zero-...

15 per cent of Messina public transport buses are now electric. BYD delivered a few days ago as many as 16 zero emission buses to ATM Messina, the operator of the Sicilian city (Italy). The new buses are model K7, thus 8.7 meter long. BYD has now secured over 50% of the total electric bus market [&h...

The presentation is yet to come but the first contract has been achieved. The Italian city of Bolzano (capitol city of South Tyrol province, close to the border with Austria) is the very first one to order Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses. The model is going to be unveiled next week at the UITP Glob...

Seven zero emission buses by Solaris will hit Norwegian cities’ roads under the brands of three different operators. Norgesbuss, Sorlandsruta and Boreal decided to implement their electric fleet which already see Solaris ebuses in operation. Solaris has received sofar more than 500 orders for ...

Hyundai is expanding its business from cars to buses, starting from a double decker with electric drivetrain (while projects on fuel cell buses are already underway). The zero emission bus unveiled by Hyundai Motor is 13 meter long, boasts a battery capacity of 384 kWh and a power output of 240 kW. ...