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Alstom sends the zero emission bus Aptis in Spain. It won’t be a vacation, though. The bus will experience a six-week roadshow. Aptis will be tested together with local transport companies in Barcelona, Madrid and Vigo. The first operational test starts on January in Barcelona Metropolitan Are...

Following, we report about Ebus test 2018, held in Bonn in October 2018. The event is organized by the German magazine Omnibusspiegel. Below, the first article, as introduction. Successively, we will publish one detailed article on each vehicle. Keep following! Between 1.65 and 1.84 kilowatt hours p...

Ekoenergetyka-Polska has put into operation the infrastructure for charging electric buses in Inowrocław. Three OppCharge pantograph charging stations of 300 kW each supply 8 electric buses on the streets of the city, located 260 km north of Warsaw. Inowrocław took delivery of 8 Volvo 7900 electric ...

Keolis Canada has ordered 12 electric school buses Type C from the Quebec-based manufacturer Lion Electric. This transaction, Keolis points out, is on track with public opinion, as 92% of Quebeckers want school boards and schools to increase their use of electric buses. With this order, Keolis Canad...

Roskilde will be the first municipality in Denmark to switch to full electric public transport. Of course the small size of the city (50,000 residents, 20 buses in operation on 9 routes) makes it easier to achieve the goal… but the step is anyway important. The buses will be supplied by Yutong...

Hess will supply 12 double-articulated trolleybuses to Lausanne public transport network. The Swiss manufacturer, in fact, won the international call for tenders and the framework contract for the renewal of the trolleybus fleet in the Swiss city. They’ll be operated by Transports publics de l...

TPER enters the LNG era with Industria Italiana Autobus and Scania, that will supply 31 city buses and 15 intercity buses respectively. We already reported about the Interlink LD LNG ordered by the Italian public transport company to Scania. Today, TPER announced the awarding to Industria Italiana A...

What we see in the picture is the 50,000th full electric bus produced by BYD. A striking number, if compared to the 2,200 (more or less) electric buses in circulation in Europe and the approximately 400,000 full electric buses in circulation around the world (99 per cent of them in China, as widely ...

Abu Dhabi rolls out the first electric bus in the region. The vehicle has 30 seats and was developed by Siemens together with the local bus manufacturer Hafilat and the energy company Masdar. The range? 150 km with one charge, according to the partners. Auxiliary systems are powered with solar panel...

Bernmobil (public transport company of Swiss capital Bern) is converting a bus line to battery electric operation, thanks to the lighTram realized by Hess. The first vehicle out of five has been presented in the last day of 2018. A similar system, with more charging stations, is currently only in op...