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The EBUS Award 2019 for electric bus manufacturers goes to… VDL Bus & Coach. The prize has been delivered yesterday at ElekBu exhibition in Berlin. Alzo ZF and Heliox were awarded for electric drive and charging infrastructure respectively, while KVB Cologne received two EBUS Award. A Germ...

122 gas buses will hit the road of Egypt capital city. The Cairo Transportation Authority (CTA) has awarded MAN with an order for 122 CNG-fuelled buses. The first two vehicles were already delivered at the end of last year. The delivery of an additional 60 vehicles is planned for July 2019, and the ...

Following, our 3nd report about Ebus test 2018, held in Bonn in October 2018. The event is organized by the German magazine Omnibusspiegel. In this third article we focus on the Solaris Urbino 18 Electric, one of the three contenders. You can click HERE for the introduction and HERE for the overview...

Chinese electric city bus market is close to saturation, thus Chinese manufacturers will look with increasing determination to European and overseas markets. In the meanwhile, global electric bus market is expected to reach over 160,000 units delivered yearly by 2025 (today we have around 2,200 elec...

BYD double-decker bus. 200 times. It’s the number of electric double decker bus units that BYD will deliver to the Chinese city of Xi’an. The Shenzhen based manufacturer launched on January 29th the world’s largest pure electric double decker bus fleet. BYD K8S was unveiled in late...

The VDL Citea Light Low Entry Electric length variant of 11.5 metres is now available. For over 2 years now, the Citea LLE-99 Electric with a length of 9.9 metres has been operating in various operations. With the introduction of the 11.5 metre length variant, VDL aims to offer operators the opportu...

Busworld is getting ready for the first exhibition in South East Asia. The fair will take place from March 20 – 22, 2019 at the Jakarta International Expo (JIEXPO) Kemayoran, Jakarta. Busworld Academy Congress presents also a strong programme (click HERE for the event page). 2019, a year full of Bus...

Following, our 2nd report about Ebus test 2018, held in Bonn in October 2018. The event is organized by the German magazine Omnibusspiegel. In this second article we focus on the Sileo S 18, one of the three contenders. You can click HERE for the introduction and HERE for the overview on the Solaris...

Kungsbacka is the fourth Swedish city to order zero emission buses from Volvo. KE’s Bussar, the municipality’s public transport company, has ordered three electric buses and three plug-in hybrid buses from the Gothenburg-based company. These are the first electric buses to operate in tha...

A Slovenian electric midibus equipped with a wireless charging system. TAM Vero (brand and model respectively) presents itself as a newcomer in the increasingly crowded electric bus market. The vehicle, built on a modular platform, is available in a variety of sizes from 7.7 to 10.7 meters and has b...