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More electric vehicles on the roads mean less noise and pollution… but also safety concerns. That’s why Forman Vehicle Services will be introducing the new V-AVAS Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System at Busworld Europe 2019 (after attending Coach & Bus UK on 2-3 October in Birmingham). T...

Solaris hydrogen bus debuts on Polish market in the framework of a roadshow that has already seen the vehicle being tested by carriers in Austria, Italy and Germany over the past few weeks. Today, it has been displayed in Poznań. It is the début of that bus (already ordered in Bolzano) on the Polish...

There’s only #ONEPLANet. UITP is launching a new campaign focused on the climate crisis. In this regards, the international association of public transport is calling on all decision makers to place public transport at the heart of their agenda in order to lower local air pollution. The Climat...

The 11 meter electric bus by BYD and ADL gets an upgrade. This is what the two companies announced today. The new Enviro200EV family will features a new ADL heat pump and optimised vehicle layouts. ADL in May 2019 has been taken over by the Canadian group New Flyer Industries (Nfi) for 405 million d...

Almost 200 new city buses are bound to Trondheim. To be precise, 189 MAN Lion’s City will be delivered to the Norwegian city. With a specification that must be underlined: the new vehicles will be powered by biogas or biodiesel. In the same city of Trondheim, 190,000 inhabitants, the deliverie...

The manufacturer is not specified, but according to Akasol words it’s the “one of the world´s leading commercial vehicle manufacturers”. And it’s “globally operating”. What the battery supplier announces is a high three-digit million-euro range follow-up order. Fr...

Daimler Buses puts its electric bus eCitaro in the spotlight at Busworld 2019. Eight buses and coaches will be showcased by Mercedes and Setra from 18th to 23rd October in Brussels. The Busworld will also be the occasion for the world premiere of the new Sprinter Travel 75. Daimler at Busworld 2019,...

by Roberto Sommariva (AUTOBUS magazine) Arriva group is for sale. It is no longer a hypothesis but a certainty. The Arriva group, owned by Deutsche Bahn, will soon be sold, as already suggested a few months ago. In ‘pole position’ there would be three hedge funds (although some sources w...

A batch of BYD electric buses reached Jerusalem, where the Israeli operator Egged took delivery of ten 12-metre vehicles. A fleet that follows the previous delivery, the first ever, signed by the Chinese operator in Israeli territory (for the city of Haifa). This first order of 17 electric buses was...

Konin is the last Polish city to order Solaris electric buses. The value of the contract covering the purchase of six electric buses and of three chargers slightly exceeds PLN 16 million (3.7 million euros). The vehicles are to be delivered to the municipal operator Miejski Zakład Komunikacyjny (MZK...