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Roskilde will be the first municipality in Denmark to switch to full electric public transport. Of course the small size of the city (50,000 residents, 20 buses in operation on 9 routes) makes it easier to achieve the goal… but the step is anyway important. The buses will be supplied by Yutong...

Hess will supply 12 double-articulated trolleybuses to Lausanne public transport network. The Swiss manufacturer, in fact, won the international call for tenders and the framework contract for the renewal of the trolleybus fleet in the Swiss city. They’ll be operated by Transports publics de l...

TPER enters the LNG era with Industria Italiana Autobus and Scania, that will supply 31 city buses and 15 intercity buses respectively. We already reported about the Interlink LD LNG ordered by the Italian public transport company to Scania. Today, TPER announced the awarding to Industria Italiana A...

What we see in the picture is the 50,000th full electric bus produced by BYD. A striking number, if compared to the 2,200 (more or less) electric buses in circulation in Europe and the approximately 400,000 full electric buses in circulation around the world (99 per cent of them in China, as widely ...

Abu Dhabi rolls out the first electric bus in the region. The vehicle has 30 seats and was developed by Siemens together with the local bus manufacturer Hafilat and the energy company Masdar. The range? 150 km with one charge, according to the partners. Auxiliary systems are powered with solar panel...

Bernmobil (public transport company of Swiss capital Bern) is converting a bus line to battery electric operation, thanks to the lighTram realized by Hess. The first vehicle out of five has been presented in the last day of 2018. A similar system, with more charging stations, is currently only in op...

Three electric buses by Scania are running on a bus route in Östersund (Sweden) from March 2018 for a pilot. And other three vehicles will be added soon. A new electric bus route will be established. The line is one among nine routes operated by Nettbuss Stadsbussarna in Östersund. The next step? Th...

It has been the first European public call for tender on LNG powered buses. The tender procedure was issued by the Italian public transport company TPER during 2017 and both lots (city and intercity buses) were won by Industria Italiana Autobus with the LNG version of Citymood. A bus that, actually,...

Solaris enters in the French trolleybus market. The Polish company won a tender for the supply of 22 trolleybuses 12 meter to Saint-Etienne in the years 2019-2022. The vehicles will be fitted with a Skoda drive system and 40 kWh battery. The value of the contract is over 17 million euros. Solaris Tr...

From October 2019 Denmark will have in operation the country first fuel cell bus system, in Aalborg. Three Van Hool buses and the refuelling station are financed by the EU through the project 3Emotion, whose aim is to promote hydrogen technology in public transport. The hydrogen buses in North Jutla...