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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...

Electric bus. In July, Solaris delivered further buses to Norway. The delivery of five Solaris Urbino 12 electric for Boreal Buss AS from Kristiansand was finished. This is the second Norwegian city after Oslo with Solaris emission-free vehicles. The contract has a value of 3 million euro. Solaris e...

Volvo Buses has received an order for four Volvo 7900 Electric buses from transport providers Bivab and Uddevalla Omnibus for the city of Uddevalla in western Sweden. A city where hybrid buses by Volvo have been operating since 2014. Volvo 7900 Electric with pantograph Following, the integral text o...

The new Citymood CNG by Industria Italiana Autobus are going into service in Bologna, where the whole delivery of 21 vehicles will be on the road by autumn. The news was announced by the public transport company TPER in a press release, which points out how the company (which operates in the city an...

Messina starts electric bus pilot with BYD. The Chinese company has won the tender for 13 electric buses that will be deployed in the Sicilian city by the operator Atm Messina (not to be confused with Atm Milano, with whom shares the same acronym). The contract for the supply of the electric city bu...

Busworld India 2018 is coming closer. It’ll be the 8th edition of the series, and for the second time it’ll be hosted in Bengaluru. From 29th to 31st August Indian bus & coach industry (more than 70 companies: manufacturers, component suppliers, technology providers and market leader...

by Jean-Philippe Pastre In July the 9th, Saint-Etienne Métropole voted for the In Motion Charging option for the STAS urban network. Saint-Etienne Métropole is one of the very rare cities in France still using trolleybuses in daily operations. A report, written with the Systra engeenering office and...