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Rampini and CaetanoBus, two ‘families’ of electric buses become… one. The Italian company Rampini incorporates the CaetanoBus e.City Gold (10.7 and 12-meter version); CaetanoBus includes in its portfolio the short electric buses Rampini E60 and E80. Therefore, as a result, both man...

by Stefano Alfano Trolleybus returns to Prague. 47 years later. From the beginning of July, passengers can take advantage of the new trolleybus service, currently carried out with one vehicle, on line 58 that connects Palmovka (Metro B) and Letňany (Metro C), with a length of 5 km. In Prague, the tr...

Navistar approaches the era of electric truck and bus development. The American company has launched a new business unit to this purpose, named NEXT eMobility Solutions. Vehicles developed by NEXT, based in Detroit, will be offered under the umbrella of Navistar subsidiaries International Truck and ...

BYD keeps receiving ebus orders from Norway. Unibuss, one of the main Norway’s principal public transport providers, has just ordered 23 12-meter electric buses by the Chinese manufacturer. Deliveries are scheduled in Q2 2020 for operation on routes in and around the Norwegian capital, Oslo. BYD cla...

Patrick Jeantet has been appointed as Keolis Group Executive Chairman. He’ll begin in the new position in early 2020. He already had been working in Keolis from 2005 to 2013. Patrick Jeantet replaces Jean-Pierre Farandou. The group, which employees 65,000 people across 16 countries, has recent...

A Hyundai fuel cell bus for the Korean police. The vehicle has been unveiled a few days ago and features large internal space for police equipment. It is powered by a 95 kW fuel cell module with tanks located on the roof and will be tested during 2020. The first hydrogen powered police buses are [&h...

Nine per cent of the public transport buses in the Netherlands are today electrically powered. And one third of them is operated by Arriva. The exact figure is 157 ebuses belonging to the fleet of the group, out of a total Dutch zero emission bus fleet of 468 vehicles. These data come from the Dutch...

«Electrification alone won’t solve the challenges we are facing». CNG and LNG buses remain good applications outside of the city centers. Hydrogen? Not now. This is Scania philosophy, as explained by Karin Rådström, earlier this year appointed Executive Vice President, Head of Sales and Market...

Where is the electric bus market going in Europe and North America? Why zero emission bus fleets need to be monitored? What data can be used for? And, what is more, the hot topic: what is the average electric bus’ energy consumption? We faced these topics (and many others) with Alexander Schab...

Transdev and Volvo Buses (plus, of course, the city of Gothenburg) are the protagonist of the largest single order of electric buses so far signed in Europe. Volvo Buses will in fact deliver as many as 157 electric articulated buses in Gothenburg starting in 2020. The buses, as already reported on S...