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Orléans Métropole will invest as many as 110 million euros in electric buses (around 180) over the next few years. According to La République du Centre, 29 vehicles will carry the logo of Irizar e-mobility. The tendering committee awarded the first contract on 19th December. Now the examinations are...

Seven low-emission buses Solaris Urbino 12 hybrid will be supplied to Ząbkowice Śląskie (Poland) by 31 July 2020. They will serve on routes of the new public transport to be established in the municipality. Low-emission buses in Poland The seven 12-meter buses of Solaris going to Ząbkowice Śląskie w...

The purchase of CNG-powered buses for Novi Sad (Serbia) is the subject of a 7 million euros loan decided by the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) in the framework of EBRD Green Cities programme. The agreement will allow the public transport company of Novi Sad to purchase new b...

Rampini put down roots in France with the six-meter minibus E60. The town of Niort, in the western region of France, received its first electric bus on 19th December. The vehicles has already started operation within the city centre. The electric minibus Rampini E60 has a capacity of 35 people (10 s...

Nearly 1,000 electric buses will join De Lijn bus fleet over the next 15 years. The Belgian public transport company is looking for suppliers, both for the electric bus units and the charging infrastructures. To this extent, the bus operator is demanding an additional financing to the Flemish govern...

Thomas Built Buses and Proterra welcome the first large order for the jointly developed electric school bus Jouley. The subsidiary of Daimler Buses, in fact, has been selected as the provider of all 50 electric school buses allocated for the initial phase of Dominion Energy’s electric school bus rep...

Wuppertal (Germany) has received the first of ten fuel cell bus vehicles. The next five hydrogen-powered vehicles from the manufacturer Van Hool are expected by the public utility company WSW in January and the rest in February. Cologne is expected to receive 30 hydrogen buses. Recently, the first h...

Irizar e-mobility delivered electric buses in Portugal for the first time. Both the 10.8 metre Irizar ie bus zero emissions electric buses are already in operation in the city of Bragança. Today, the Spanish brand is present in more than 7 countries. The Irizar ie bus range has been recently updated...

Some of the electric buses in London will produce an artificial sound as early as next year in order to warn people for their arrival and thus reducing the risk of possible accidents. The sound (called Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System) has been developed by Zelig Sound, a long-time collaborator of T...

Heliox announces a change to the management team: as of 2nd of January 2020, Michael Colijn takes the position of CEO. Looking at 2020, Heliox new venture in the short term will be the implementation of the charging infrastructure project for ESWE Verkehr Wiesbaden, where 56 Mercedes eCitaro will be...