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The Baltic town of Jūrmala in Latvia has just purchased two electric buses by Solaris. The zero-emission Urbino 8.9 LE electric will hit the roads of the resort town in the third quarter of 2019. These will be the first electric buses of Solaris not only in Latvia, but also in all of the Baltic Stat...

Santiago electric aims don’t rely only on BYD. Yutong, indeed, also provided to Chile capitol city as many as 100 electric buses E12. The same amount of vehicles already ordered to BYD. Having sent more than 20,000 vehicles to Latin America over the past 15 years, Yutong has become the largest...

Taking into account external costs (health and climate), electric buses already offer a lower TCO than diesel. On the other hand, the mere economic calculation, thus excluding external costs, shows that a diesel bus today remains more economical than an electric one. It is the result of an in-depth ...

30 fuel cell buses by Hyundai will be delivered to six South Korean cities and used for public transport services. Seoul government recently said that the first pilot in the capital city has already started. And five other major cities will join next year, starting in March. In total, 30 fuel cell b...

Work in progress for the first autonomous bus public service with 12 meters vehicles (not shuttle buses, a field where driverless technologies are already being tested some years). The first autonomous bus fleet experiment, funded by UK government with £4.35 million, will be held in Scotland, thanks...

Keolis has been given the task of bringing the Orléans Metropole area to a fully electric public transport system. The whole bus fleet is expected to be renewed with electric buses by 2024. Also tram and electric bikes will be deployed. Tao (this is the name of the multimodal network) will then be t...

55 hybrid buses by Nova Bus are on their way to Toronto. Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) will receive them as part of a larger order of 325 buses awarded to the manufacturer, subsidiary of Volvo Buses, following a tendering process. The vehicles belong to the next generation hybrid buses by Nova Bu...

Below, a contribution from Interact Analysis, a market research firm focused on intelligent automation, with a specific department for truck, bus and off-highway electrification. Interact Analysis is cooperating with Sustainable Bus providing in-depth analysis on the dominant market trends and outlo...

The low entry lite hybrid bus is born (with a curb weight under 9 tonnes for the solobus), Urbino and Trollino change look. Solaris marks its presence at this year’s Czechbus trade fair (20 – 22 November) showing two buses. It’ll be the premiere both of the mild hybrid Solaris Urbi...

BYD and ADL delivered a few days ago a 36 vehicles electric bus order in London. But the big news is not necessarily this one. What is also very interesting is that the companies, together with the strategic partner SSE, transformed the historic and land-locked RATP Dev Shepherd’s Bush garage in Wes...