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10.8 meters long, 33 seats on board and one wheelchair space. Where, and this is the news, a mobile charging unit can be accomodate, in order to enable operators to trial the bus without needing to install permanent charging infrastructure beforehand. BYD and ADL took part at Euro Bus Expo 2018 in B...

Five German cities, 3,000 electric buses on the road. It’s the 2030 outlook published by Wirtschaftswoche following a survey. Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne have been the first to commit to the electrification of the bus fleet. Frankfurt and Munich are following. German cities investing in electr...

Heliox has been chosen to supply 9,8 MW infrastructure for the biggest electric bus charging network in Oslo. The company is going to provide 40 charging systems in order to power a 40 electric buses fleet. The expected implementation of this large-scale project is less than 4 months, Heliox says. T...

Optare Metrodecker EV and Metrocity EV reach the moment of the evolution to new generation. At Euro Bus Expo 2018 in Birmingham, the UK based company unveiled its new electric buses. Both vehicles are expected to run up to 150 miles on a single charge. Fully electric heating for Optare electric buse...

Dutch public transport company EBS has put 10 units of the electric bus VDL Citeas SLFA-181 in service. The vehicles will provide the regional transport service in the Waterland region. The electric buses will be deployed on R-net line 316 between Amsterdam and Edam-Volendam. This will result in 135...

60 electric buses for Singapore, plus 50 hybrid buses. Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) awarded a contract for the procurement of electric buses to 3 different tenderers, at a total sum of $50.64 million. The manufacturers are BYD, ST Engineering and Yutong-NARI. The electric buses will be d...

The first electric, open-top double-decker sightseeing bus in London hit the road a few days ago. The driveline? Electric motors integrated in the wheels manufactured by Ziehl-Abegg (ZAwheel). The bus is built by Unvi and operated by “The Original Tour”, a subsidiary of the international RATP Group....

Everything started when the city of Vaasa, in Finland, decided to become the first carbon neutral city in the country. More than one year ago 12 Scania Citywide fuelled with the biogas produced by the waste processing plant at Stormossen hit the road for the first time. The target of 700,000 total k...

55 electric buses are not enough. RET Rotterdam signed on 25 October a contract for 103 Citea SLE-120 Hybrid and 40 Citea LLE-120 diesel Euro VI. Fully electric buses will be used for shorter city lines, while the hybrid buses for the regional lines. Hybrid buses for Rotterdam Starting in late 2019 ...

Voyages Emile Weber fleet will see a total of 21 Irizar electric buses on the road. Seven vehicles (12 meter) have already been put into service, and now the group ha ordered other 14 units of ie tram, in articulated version. They are the first 18 m articulated buses with 525 kWh to operate in [&hel...