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55 hybrid buses by Nova Bus are on their way to Toronto. Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) will receive them as part of a larger order of 325 buses awarded to the manufacturer, subsidiary of Volvo Buses, following a tendering process. The vehicles belong to the next generation hybrid buses by Nova Bu...

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...

The low entry lite hybrid bus is born (with a curb weight under 9 tonnes for the solobus), Urbino and Trollino change look. Solaris marks its presence at this year’s Czechbus trade fair (20 – 22 November) showing two buses. It’ll be the premiere both of the mild hybrid Solaris Urbi...

BYD and ADL delivered a few days ago a 36 vehicles electric bus order in London. But the big news is not necessarily this one. What is also very interesting is that the companies, together with the strategic partner SSE, transformed the historic and land-locked RATP Dev Shepherd’s Bush garage in Wes...

Wrightbus Streetdeck FCEV is the world first fuel cell double decker bus. Fuel cell bus system is made by Ballard, drivetrain is by Siemens. The manufacturer? The UK based company Wrightbus, which unveiled the vehicle at Euro Bus Expo 2018 in Birmingham, two years after having presented a concept. I...

Strasbourg and Lyon bet on electric buses, in Italy 50 zero emission buses are the object of a tender by CONSIP, in Bulgaria seven vehicles will be awarded at the beginning of 2019. Monheim, in Germany, plans to build a driverless line with Easymile. Baia Mare, in Romania, issued a tender for trolle...

The first public transport company to order the Mercedes eCitaro has today received the first unit of the vehicle. Mercedes delivered the first series production model of an urban bus with a fully-electric drive system to the public transport company Hochbahn AG in Hamburg. It is part of an order fo...

Curtain has been raised on the first electric minibus concept by Indcar. Called Strada e-City, the vehicle is based on the Iveco Daily van chassis and is equipped with 135 kWh of batteries, supplied by Millor Battery. The electric motor can develop up to 140 kW. The electric minibus by Indcar is des...

Who visited IAA Commercial Vehicles in Hannover (Germany) this year had the chance to see it in a version powered by Efficient Drivetrains. In that occasion Daimler announced the beginning of the cooperation with Proterra. The launch of the first electric school bus realized by Proterra and Thomas B...

107 million euros from European Commission for the retrofit of diesel buses. In Germany, green transition of public transport has a flavour of… diesel. Indeed, the European Commission has found German plans to support the retrofitting of diesel buses used for public transport to be in line wit...