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A new fuel cell bus and the first BRT bus running on hydrogen. Van Hool bets on the electric future through hydrogen. The efforts of the Belgian company have long since been focused on the development of hydrogen drive. Two premieres are ready to be launched in the short and medium term: the new A33...

481 Scania gas fuelled Euro 6 buses weren’t enough. Bogotà awarded the Swedish company a contract for further 260 vehicles of the same kind, bringing the total order to 741 buses for the Bus rapid transit. The 260 vehicles are bi-articulated able to carry up to 250 passengers and will be bodyb...

The Municipality of Genoa, in Italy, has presented to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport a dossier on the implementation of the rapid mass transport system. As reported on Autobusweb, Genoa asked 650 millions euros to finance as much as 4 new public transport lines, served by trolleybus or...

Not on the roof, neither on the back. Rafako puts the battery packs in the chassis. The unveiling of the Rafako Ebus prototype represents a two-way innovation: it is the first step in the world of electromobility taken by a company that mainly deals with power generation and it shows a solution (bat...

BYD delivered its first electric bus to the Hungarian market, where the Chinese company produces (at Komaron plant) vehicles for the European market, with the exception of France, which is served by another plant, that started operation a few weeks ago. The first electric bus BYD for Hungary will op...

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 ...