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Alstom Aptis, the electric bus realized by Alstom and Ntl will be delivered from July 2019, with the new design presented at Transport Publics in Paris. The concept, characterized by  full low floor, axles offset to each end (and both steerable), rear lounge, has been tested for pilots in several Eu...

Battery electric is the next step, but afterwards it’ll come the time of fuel cell. Solaris Bus & Coach will unveil in 2019 the Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen, a new generation vehicle deriving power from a hydrogen fuel cell. Fuel cell buses and future scenarios The fact that fuel cell will s...

Iveco Bus‘ commitment in the field of trolleybuses has been awarded with the Public transport innovation award in the “Move Green!” Energy-Environment category at Transport Publics 2018. More than 800 trolleybus units designed and produced by Iveco Bus are already on the road in Eu...

Volvo Buses enters the autonomous era with its first driverless bus concept. Starting on June 15 and throughout the Volvo Ocean Race competition in Gothenburg (Sweden), the autonomous bus by Volvo will be shown to specially invited guests. The race has also been the occasion for Volvo Buses to unvei...

The electric buses now available on market, with a few exceptions, have nothing to do with those that will be in production in 2025. There is no doubt that electric buses are bound to conquer the urban public transport market. But not in the shape to which we are accustomed… The text published...

BVG Berlin is entering the electric bus era with an order for 15 fully electric Mercedes Citaro. This doesn’t mean the city is stopping its investments on diesel bueses, as proved by the recent record-breaking order for up to 950 city buses, also Citaro. The order is the result of the first te...

BYD and its Indian partner Goldstone are planning to reach a production rate of electric buses of no less than 5,000 units per year by March 2021. Indian zero emission bus market is expected to grow, and main manufacturers don’t want to lose any chance. K6 Goldstone – BYD minibus. Made i...

One double decker bus by Scania and Alexander Dennis fueled with biogas is currently on a pilot in Suffolk for the operator Ipswich Buses. The vehicle began its trial on June 3 and will be in operation for 6 weeks. Recently, the same model of bus has been bought in 21 units by Bristol Community Tran...

Solaris, the electric bus is heated with Lpg. It’s one of the recent achievements of Solaris Bus & Coach Research and Development Department, which currently employs nearly 150 engineers. One of the areas that Solaris engineers have recently worked on were air conditioning and heating as w...

Forsee Power and Transport Publics exhibition: the battery manufacturer put under the spotlight its new models Pulse 15 and Zen 35 for electric buses, that complete the ranges Zen and Pulse respectively. The first is based on Lto chemistry and offers high power for fast charging. Zen 35, instead, is...