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The Swiss company Hess won a trolleybus tender issued by Salzburg, which has one of the largest trolleybus fleets in Western Europe in operation. The framework contract includes the supply of up to 50 vehicles, 15 of which are 18-metre trolleybuses and are to be delivered next year. The agreement al...

Chinese company CRRC allies with Hungary’s Ikarus in order to commercialize a joint developed electric bus in Europe. Electrobus Europe Zrt is the result of the partnership between the two companies. The prototype, named CityPioneer (the commercial name is IC 1211 U), has been unveiled this we...

250 electric buses for ATM Milan, a challenge between Mercedes and Solaris. eCitaro vs Urbino. Iveco (or better: Heuliez) hasn’t submitted any bid. The tender issued by Atm Milan for 250 units of 12 meter electric bus is one of the largest so far issued in Europe for this category of bus. And ...

The events, mostly negative (debts, breakdowns, buses on fire), related to the public transport company ATAC (Rome) are quite well known even outside Italy. For this reason, the news that Rome is investing in electric buses cannot fail to amaze. But let’s be precise: by summer 2019, stated the...

26 Iveco Crealis Cng fuelled will be the “skeleton” of the Bus Rapid Transit “Lémergent”, just launched by the Abidjan Transport Company (SOTRA) of Abidjan, the former political capital of the Ivory Coast (and one of the most populous French-speaking cities in Africa). These ...

City Sightseeing Italy group presented in Milan its first double-decker electric bus for city sightseeing. The bus is realized by Ankai and moved by Zf electric axle. It has already passed the road tests in Florence and Milan and begin service in Milan on December 7th. Other tests will follow during...

51 electric buses in four municipalities. The capital city Bucharest is not involved. Romanian government, together with the municipalities, issued a tender for 12 meters electric buses, 15 fast charging stations and 51 slow charging stations. The whole contract is worth 30 million euros (141 375 00...

Heliox has delivered to The Hague a fast charging system, which combines the principals of opportunity and CCS plug-in charging to the project to charge 9 VDL electric buses. It’ll be used by the operator HTM. In total, the delivery consists of 6 fast chargers: a Heliox OC 300 kW charger with ...

After winning tenders for the delivery of electric buses to Berlin and Hamburg (in both cities the victory is split with Mercedes, that is also delivering its electric bus eCitaro), Solaris signed a contract for the production of three Solaris Urbino 12 electric vehicles for Munich and the surroundi...

California bus fleets will be made of electric buses only, according the Innovative Clean Transit rule, voted by California’s Air Resources Board (CARB). It requires public transit agencies throughout the state to commit to buying only zero-emission buses (battery electric or fuel cell) starti...