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EMT Madrid placed an order for 276 Mercedes Citaro NGT, fuelled with natural gas. The public transport company of Spanish capital is strongly committed to natural gas. The investment include also the purchase of 184 units of Scania N280-CNG. In total, as a press release from Daimler reports, 672 Cit...

At IAA 2018 the main topic was the electromobility, even with the main protagonists of the present European electric bus market dramatically absent: Solaris and VDL opted for the Innotrans in Berlin while Irizar stayed at home (however, the Basque manufacturer never showed up in Hanover). Daimler un...

Utah Transit Authority has awarded New Flyer a contract for 5 forty foot (12 meters) electric buses Xcensior Charge. The award includes the zero-emission buses and charging equipment, and was supported by Federal Transit Administration (FTA) funds through the Low or No Emission (“Low-No”) Vehicle De...

ZF is highlighting two market successes for its AxTrax AVE electric portal axle (initially known as AVE 130). Firstly, 31 of the famous red London double-decker buses will be equipped with this technology. The electric buses will be built by British manufacturer Optare and comply with one of the str...

VDL Bus & Coach put its signature on the first articulated electric buses for Arriva Denmark, that on 13th September has been awarded a contract by public transport agency Movia to run several routes in the city starting from December 2019. The company has placed an order with for 21 VDL Citeas ...

Alexander Dennis has opened a new facility in Singapore. The new site includes a parts distribution and training centre for the wider South East Asian region in addition to offices for the local team working with customers and stakeholders in Singapore. In this way the world’s largest manufact...

BYD‘s presence at IAA in Hanover resulted in the showcase of two new products: the world premiere of the 12m modular ebus and the mass produced 18m articulated ebus equipped with a pantograph. Both feature BYD’s stylish new frontal appearance which is now standard on all of its ebuses. LFP bat...

Proterra and Daimler look at the electrification of North American school bus market. Together. Today Proterra announced that it has closed a $155 million investment round co-led by Daimler, the world’s largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles. Tao Capital Partners co-led the round, joined by G2V...

The IAA 2018 looks like it is going to draw the line between traditional and alternative drives. Tomorrow, the curtain will open on the future: MAN with the electric bus Lion’s City E, Scania with the LNG coach, Mercedes with the eCitaro, Heuliez with the ebus… IAA 2018, MAN unveils Lion...

by Jean-Philippe Pastre The SYTRAL (Lyon Metropolitan transport authoriry) released on friday 14th september 2018 his strategy to be compliant with the French environmental law which comes into force in 2020. The electro-mobility, with two different technologies get the widest share. Trolleybuses IM...