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Italian government pushes for the transition to electric and gas fuelled buses, respectively in urban centres and suburban areas, with a 3.7 billion euros allocation over the period 2019 – 2033. The money could be used by regions or municipalities in order to buy electric buses (either battery...

Solaris electric buses are now running in 38 cities in 13 European countries. The last delivery, a few days before the end of 2018, took place in Barcelona, where the Polish manufacturer supplied 3 electric articulated buses to Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB). The delivery marks the comp...

From the end of January three Mercedes eCitaro will be operating in Mannheim and Heidelberg for the operator Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH. This delivery follows the ones in Hamburg and Berlin. The zero emission bus, equipped with a ZF electric axle (the same adopted by the Solaris Urbino electric), has...

18 Catalyst E2 electric buses have been purchased by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. They’ll be used for shuttle service at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) and LaGuardia Airport (LGA). The order represents one of the larges...

Santiago paved the way, Medellin follows. A few weeks after the delivery of 100 BYD electric buses to Santiago, the Colombian city ordered 64 zero emission buses from the Chinese manufacturer, thus making the first steps towards the first electric fleet in the Latin American country. It will also be...

The European electric bus market is entering a period of rapid growth with several large European cities making ambitious targets to electrify their fleets. Join Interact Analysis to we discuss the findings from one of their recent industry reports and explore where the biggest opportunities lie. Su...

A new fuel cell bus and the first BRT bus running on hydrogen. Van Hool bets on the electric future through hydrogen. The efforts of the Belgian company have long since been focused on the development of hydrogen drive. Two premieres are ready to be launched in the short and medium term: the new A33...

481 Scania gas fuelled Euro 6 buses weren’t enough. Bogotà awarded the Swedish company a contract for further 260 vehicles of the same kind, bringing the total order to 741 buses for the Bus rapid transit. The 260 vehicles are bi-articulated able to carry up to 250 passengers and will be bodyb...

The Municipality of Genoa, in Italy, has presented to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport a dossier on the implementation of the rapid mass transport system. As reported on Autobusweb, Genoa asked 650 millions euros to finance as much as 4 new public transport lines, served by trolleybus or...

Not on the roof, neither on the back. Rafako puts the battery packs in the chassis. The unveiling of the Rafako Ebus prototype represents a two-way innovation: it is the first step in the world of electromobility taken by a company that mainly deals with power generation and it shows a solution (bat...