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Copenhagen is going to purchase 41 electric buses in order to electrify two public transport routes, now operated by diesel buses. The capital municipality, indeed, set the target of switching all the city’s buses, operated by Movia, to electricity by 2030. Buses and ferries will be green The ...

Solaris Bus & Coach is officially CAF’S property. The Spanish based company acquires 100% of the shares of Solaris Bus & Coach, that will be included to the Group CAF. This transaction, quoting a press release by both Solaris and CAF, will ensure the leadership of the CAF Group and Sol...

After the success of the 2016 London conference, the Zero Emission Bus conference will return for a second edition in Cologne on 27 th and 28 th November 2018. The conference is organised with the support of the mayor office. The Mayor of Cologne, Ms Reker will open the conference.

Yutong fuel cell buses, 25 deliveries are planned for the Winter Olymplics in Zhangjiakou, that will take place in 2022. Yutong, for its fuel cell bus, declares a range of 500 km and 10 – 15 minutes hydrogen refueling time. The China based manufacturer won in January 2018 the bid for 25 fuel c...

Lithuania’s capital Vilnius plans to purchase five full electric and 70 hybrid buses. These first electric Vilnius buses will reportedly join the urban fleet by 2020. Within a overall 38.5 millions euros plan, the capital city authorities also intend to buy 50 gas powered buses and 10 smaller ...

ASRTU and the sustainable public transport ASRTU, the Indian Association of State Road Transport Undertakings, organised a conference focused on ‘sustainable public transport’, ‘electro mobility’, ‘the digitalisation of public transport’ and ‘access to public transport for people with disabilities’....

When the biofuel for the bus comes from…. wine. Grape marc, the residue produced in wine-making process, can be used to make biofuel. It’s called ED945, it’s actually not very convenient from the economical point of view but it reduces emissions compared to diesel. A Scania Interli...

Busworld India 2018. Who’s who Busworld India 2018, Bangalore, has closed its doors on August 31th. Sustainable-bus.com has gone to see closely what the word sustainability means on the Indian subcontinent, the second huger bus&coach worldwide market. India bus industry currently makes ove...

105 new double decker electric buses to be introduced in the fleet between 2019 and 2020. It’s the plan revealed by the British operator Stagecoach. The investment will be around £56m (34.6m from the company, 21.5 from the government). Enviro400 EV City by ADL – BYD is the electric bus m...

The city of Grudziądz in northernd Poland has signed a contract for the delivery of seven Volvo 7900 Electric Hybrid buses (plugin hybrids), that will occur in spring 2019. Charging stations will be delivered by Heliox. The buses are equipped with a 5 litres diesel engine and a 150 kW electric motor...