News

20 e-buses already in the fleet and 13 further units coming. But the plans are much wider. University of Georgia (UGA) is targeting the complete phase-out of diesel buses from the fleet. Accordingly, UGA will be the university hosting the largest electric bus fleet in the US. 12 charging stations fo...

Foton is about to begin the production of battery-electric buses in Egypt. The first batch of vehicles will be realized in November in Egyptian military factories. At least, this is what the Minister of Military Production Mohamed al-Assar announced on Sunday. Also, Assar explained that his ministry...

130 BYD e-buses weren’t enough: Los Angeles has decided for a further order, this time with Proterra, bringing the figure up to 155 electric buses. That now marks the largest investment on this technology in North America. The major investment of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT...

The Mercedes eCitaro has deserved the “Blue Angel” environmental label. What is more, it’s the first fully-electric city bus entitled to bear this label, that will be displayed on the three vehicles in delivery in Jena for Jenaer Nahverkehr. “Blue Angel” has been for ov...

Aix-en-Provence will have a batch of 13 Rampini E60 in operation. The Italian company announced the awarding of an order from Keolis France. Delivery is expected by the end of 2020, with starting of the operation in January 2021. In late 2019, Rampini delivered a first six-meter electric minibus in ...

The MAN Lion’s City E has been chosen as the winner of the iF Gold Award in the “Automobile/Vehicle/Bike” category by the design judging panel of the iF International Forum. The bus design team has now won an iF Design Award for the fifth year running. This year, also BYD won a prize at the [&hellip...

North America’s first cluster dedicated to researching battery electric and fuel cell electric buses has been launched by CUTRIC (The Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium) together with seven partners. CUTRIC and its members are contributing a total of $4.2 million in fund...

BYD 12-meter eBus has been crowned with the iF Design Award in the public transport category. The award was addressed at the ‘Home from Home’ design concept, that BYD showed at Busworld Brussels in October 2019. 7,300 participants from 56 countries entered the design competition – first conceived in...

Ten e-buses for two zero-emissions lines. But also “zero costs” for passengers, that will travel on these routes for free. Two bus lines entitled “zero emissions, zero costs” have been launched today in Madrid. EMT Madrid is going to operate ten Irizar ie bus battery-electric...

Auckland goes electric with CRRC. The CityLink bus services will be operated with electric buses only from the end of this year, the Government of New Zealand says. Auckland Transport and its operator NZ Bus will soon get 12 electric buses built by the Chinese group CRRC. These will be joining eight...