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Change of leadership in Solaris: following a decision take by the new owners of Solaris (i.e. the Spanish group Caf) and the Supervisory Board, Javier Calleja became the new CEO of Solaris Bus & Coach, with effect from October 3, 2018. Calleja’s experience in transport industry The new CEO...

The Romanian city of Cluj Napoca already ordered (and received) 11 units of electric bus, model Solaris Urbino Electric 12. Now it’s time for the follow-up: Solaris Bus & Coach has just signed another contract. This time the city has ordered 18 units of electric bus. As the framework agree...

Toyota will provide its hydrogen fuel cell technology (including fuel cell stacks, hydrogen tanks and other key components) to Caetanobus SA in Portugal, to build hydrogen fuel cell city buses. The first zero emission fuel cell city buses will roll off the lines of Caetanobus in a little over a year...

Limoges Métropole has been using trolleybuses for more than 50 years and now invests in the new generation of Iveco Crealis. Precisely, the municipality choose the Crealis In-Motion-Charging, the trolleybus just unveiled at IAA Commercial Vehicles in Hannover and in that occasion awarded as Sustaina...

While Chinese market is known for the huge competition (big figures, a huge ‘cake’ split between many manufacturers), in Macau Yutong Bus actually has no competitors: there are 2,700 buses and coaches in the region, 1,400 of them carry Yutong’s logo. Since 2014, Yutong buses have m...

Electric bus by Scania is moving forward toward serial production. Three Citywide LF electric have been tested since the end of 2017 in the Swedish northern city of Östersund on a 14 km line equipped with two charging stations at both ends of the line. The electric bus has been shown at IAA in Hanno...

The electric bus GX 337 Elec by Heuliez Bus (Cnh Industrial) has been chosen by Stadtbus Rottweil for the local public transport in the city of Rottweil (Baden-Wuerttemberg). The electric bus by Heuliez represents the first step of Cnh Industrial along the way of buses’ electrification, and ha...

EMT Madrid placed an order for 276 Mercedes Citaro NGT, fuelled with natural gas. The public transport company of Spanish capital is strongly committed to natural gas. The investment include also the purchase of 184 units of Scania N280-CNG. In total, as a press release from Daimler reports, 672 Cit...

At IAA 2018 the main topic was the electromobility, even with the main protagonists of the present European electric bus market dramatically absent: Solaris and VDL opted for the Innotrans in Berlin while Irizar stayed at home (however, the Basque manufacturer never showed up in Hanover). Daimler un...

Utah Transit Authority has awarded New Flyer a contract for 5 forty foot (12 meters) electric buses Xcensior Charge. The award includes the zero-emission buses and charging equipment, and was supported by Federal Transit Administration (FTA) funds through the Low or No Emission (“Low-No”) Vehicle De...