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Standardization in electric bus charging systems is one of the main issues involved in the adoption of electric buses by transport companies. Heliox moves in this direction providing a system that the company calls “the first multi-standard solution”: indeed, it allow dual manufacturer electric buse...

For the first time, a hybrid bus is operating within Slovenian borders. Arriva Group and the municipality of Jesenice (near to Austria) are developing the pilot with a MAN Lion’s City Hybrid. The vehicle has now been on the road in Slovenia for a few weeks. Hybrid bus premiere in Jesenice with...

Below, a contribution from Interact Analysis, a market research firm focused on intelligent automation, with a specific department for truck, bus and off-highway electrification. Interact Analysis is cooperating with Sustainable Bus providing in-depth analysis on the dominant market trends and outlo...

Change of leadership in Solaris: following a decision take by the new owners of Solaris (i.e. the Spanish group Caf) and the Supervisory Board, Javier Calleja became the new CEO of Solaris Bus & Coach, with effect from October 3, 2018. Calleja’s experience in transport industry The new CEO...

The Romanian city of Cluj Napoca already ordered (and received) 11 units of electric bus, model Solaris Urbino Electric 12. Now it’s time for the follow-up: Solaris Bus & Coach has just signed another contract. This time the city has ordered 18 units of electric bus. As the framework agree...

Toyota will provide its hydrogen fuel cell technology (including fuel cell stacks, hydrogen tanks and other key components) to Caetanobus SA in Portugal, to build hydrogen fuel cell city buses. The first zero emission fuel cell city buses will roll off the lines of Caetanobus in a little over a year...

Limoges Métropole has been using trolleybuses for more than 50 years and now invests in the new generation of Iveco Crealis. Precisely, the municipality choose the Crealis In-Motion-Charging, the trolleybus just unveiled at IAA Commercial Vehicles in Hannover and in that occasion awarded as Sustaina...

While Chinese market is known for the huge competition (big figures, a huge ‘cake’ split between many manufacturers), in Macau Yutong Bus actually has no competitors: there are 2,700 buses and coaches in the region, 1,400 of them carry Yutong’s logo. Since 2014, Yutong buses have m...

Electric bus by Scania is moving forward toward serial production. Three Citywide LF electric have been tested since the end of 2017 in the Swedish northern city of Östersund on a 14 km line equipped with two charging stations at both ends of the line. The electric bus has been shown at IAA in Hanno...

The electric bus GX 337 Elec by Heuliez Bus (Cnh Industrial) has been chosen by Stadtbus Rottweil for the local public transport in the city of Rottweil (Baden-Wuerttemberg). The electric bus by Heuliez represents the first step of Cnh Industrial along the way of buses’ electrification, and ha...