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Birmingham Airport has awarded Volvo Bus UK the contract to supply the airport with six Volvo 7900 Electric. The buses are scheduled to start operation in November 2019. They’ll be employed for free passenger transport service via all airport car park routes. Volvo 7900 Electric, 80 % less ene...

Five Volvo electric buses have just started regular operation in the city of Leiden, the Netherlands. Further 18 will follow. The buses are part of an order of 23 fully electric buses from public transport company Arriva (which operates in 14 countries around Europe) in the Netherlands. The contract...

The very first order for Alstom Aptis has been signed. Strasbourg public transport company CTS (Communauté des Transports Strasbourgeois) just purchased 12 Aptis, the first electric bus realized by Alstom. They’ll be also the first electric buses in CTS’s fleet. Serial production of the ...

Electric buses employed as airport shuttles. It happens in Brussels, where a fleet of BYD ebuses began operations a few days ago for the transport of passengers from the gate to the plane. This is a further effort made by Brussels Airport, which in 2018 declared that it had achieved carbon neutralit...

More than 160 electric buses will hit the streets of the new concession Groningen-Drenthe, in the Netherlands. The public transport operator Qbuzz, owned by Italian railways FS, will receive the large batch of vehicles from three manufacturers: the largest fleet will be provided by Ebusco with 60 eb...

Among many pilots, underway and announced, Volvo Buses has unveiled the very first full size autonomous electric bus. The “full size” makes the difference: short driverless shuttle buses are not new (we could mention, for instance, Navya and Easy Mile), but the 12 meter is a real premier...

BYD and Golden Dragon equip their electric buses for Israel with Eberspaecher air condition system AC 136 AE HP. More than 40 ebuses are involved in the order: they’ll be deployed by Israeli transport companies in Tel Aviv, Haifa and, for the first time, in Jerusalem. The system, fully electri...

In Berlin 15 electric articulated buses will join the thirty 12-meter ebuses already ordered (and partially delivered). Solaris Bus & Coach has been awarded a contract for 15 Solaris Urbino 18 electric. With this order BVG enters the next phase of electric bus procurement and for the first time ...

One out of three buses sold by Solaris in 2018 were alternative drive vehicles. Solaris, according to the figures released by the company, placed second in the chart of electric buses’ top seller in Europe for the year 2018. And 2019 will be the year of the Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen and Troll...

Diesel – electric hybrid? Of course yes. CNG – electric hybrid? Why not! Daimler Buses, after the launch of the fully electric eCitaro, walks along on the path of mild hybrid technology. The next step is the Citaro hybrid with natural gas drive. Augsburg, in Germany, ordered 6 units of t...