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Following cancellation of its e-bus order with Ebusco, Connect Bus is set to deploy BYD buses in Växjö, Sweden, as local trade media Bussmagasinet reports. 47 electric buses will be delivered (18 articulated and 29 solo buses) in summer next year. What is interesting, while the 18-meter will be the ...

After Munich airport, MAN is providing e-buses also in Amsterdam Schiphol airport. 52 zero emission buses have just been commissioned, the airport reports, and are set to transport passengers between the aircraft and the terminal. MAN Truck & Bus has just been awarded the tender, that saw 5 OEMs...

Iveco Bus and ZF are entering a cooperation aiming at deploying e-mobility solutions for passenger transportation. The announcement was made at IAA Hannover and it’s quite surprising as up to now Iveco e-buses have been equipped with Siemens (now Cummins) e-powertrain. What is also worth notic...

Polish battery systems make Impact Clean Power Technology has launched what the company claims being “Europe’s most modern, highly automated” lithium-ion battery production line. The new line, designed and manufactured by Teamtechnik, will allow the company to increase its generati...

This is not exactly a bolt out of the blue, as some rumors had been circulating for a few months, and today the news came: the Spanish coachbuilder Sunsundegui has initiated pre-bankruptcy proceedings. Also weighing on the crisis was Volvo’s halt to the production of the 9700 and 9900 range, w...

The global leader battery supplier CATL chose IAA Transportation 2024 in Hannover to launch the Tectrans battery system. CATL aspires to reach net zero in battery manufacturing operations by 2025 and across the battery supply chain by 2035. These milestones will help reduce more than 40% of emission...

Habas officially entered the bus world at Busworld 2023 in Brussels. Habas’ bus division is the latest challenge from a Turkish group with a capital “g,” as it has an 80 percent market share in the gas market in the motherland, operating in disparate sectors: iron, steel, shipyards, ports, and...

ZF and Foton have strengthened their partnership by introducing new hybrid drive systems for commercial vehicles in China to aid decarbonization. The announcement was made during the press day at IAA Transportation 2024. Building on the success of their joint venture setup to deliver the TraXon auto...

After debuting in the UK in 2021, Scania and Higer have decided to bring the Fencer to continental Europe as well. We picked up the news at IAA Transportation in Hannover, where the bus model was not physically present at the show. The news is the decision to market the range in Germany and Austria,...

If a bus enthusiast from Mars had landed on Earth on September 17, the opening day of IAA Transportation 2024, and made his (or her) way straight to the halls of the Hannover Messe to get a sense of the bus industry in Europe, he would have encountered a picture vastly different from the reality [&h...