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The Mercedes eCitaro is going to be tested in 14 European countries. The battery electric bus already made its appearance in Florence, Italy, where it’ll be operating for two weeks on urban lines. Several eCitaro buses will be driving to locations and contract partners of Daimler Buses in Luxe...

Volvo to deliver the first electric bus in Ireland. The Gothenburg-based company has been awarded the contract to supply a fully electric bus to the Crowne Plaza Dublin Airport Hotel. This will be the first electric bus to go into operation in Ireland and will operate passenger transfers at Dublin A...

The electric bus by Scania, which is going towards serial production after a pilot started in March 2018, will be the protagonist of a trial of autonomous buses on regular routes that will be carried on by Nobina in the Stockholm area with two vehicles. The trial period is planned to begin in 2020. ...

Ekoenergetyka-Polska produced in 2018 bus charging stations with a total capacity of 15 MW. Plus, the company won tenders all around Europe (Paris and Malmo, for instance), founded a new Research and Development Center for new technologies in electric transport and increased its employees by over 12...

New Flyer is advancing fourth-year production of 115 hybrid buses Xcelsior (forty-foot / 12 meter length) for Philadelphia. They’ll be operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). This is the fourth installment of a five-year contract by SEPTA for a total of 525 ...

From September 2019 an electric bus Heuliez GX 337 Elec will be on a pilot for Italian public transport company ATP Esercizio along the line Genoa – Recco. The announcement was the ‘ice on the cake’ of the conference held a few days ago in Genoa. It came from Alessandro Bernardini,...

Two Solaris Urbino 12 electric for Hamburg started operation a few days ago, further 8 will follow in the next months. Hochbahn Hamburg showcased at the end of 2018 the the first series production model of Mercedes eCitaro. The public transport company ordered 20 electric buses by Mercedes together ...

As the only worldwide network to bring together all public transport stakeholders and all sustainable transport modes, UITP and their global membership knows what direction the sector is going in. The UITP Global Public Transport Summit (Stockholm 9-12 June 2019) is the largest of its kind in public...

Following, our 4th and last report about Ebus test 2018, held in Bonn in October 2018. The event is organized by the German magazine Omnibusspiegel. In this fourth article we focus on the VDL Citea SLFA-181 Electric, one of the three contenders. You can click HERE for the introduction, HERE for the ...

Florida State University going green with an order for 22 Proterra electric buses. The Californian producer will supply 22 electric buses to Tallahassee’s public transit system called StarMetro.  The buses, model Catalyst FC, will serve Florida State University (FSU), bringing the StarMetro fl...