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Europe’s largest electric bus order goes to…. BYD. Yes, we know: we wrote it (and you read it…) plenty of time so far. Just a few weeks ago, Volvo Buses announced a 157 electric bus order in Sweden. Indeed: Europe’s largest electric bus order. At that time. Now it’s BYD...

Scania bus LNG-powered has made its way to Bologna. The first LNG buses in Europe have been delivered in the Italian city. And this could set the beginning of a new era for intercity buses. The Scania bus Interlink LD LNG displayed today, the first batch of a 15-units order, will be operated by the ...

20 battery-electric buses plus 10 trolleybuses. It’s an ‘holistic’ group of contracts the one signed by Lublin public transport authority ZTM with Solaris Bus & Coach. The value of the orders exceeds PLN 106 millions (over 24 million euros). Following this purchase, half of Lub...

The battery-electric coach has technical problems, the pilot is being discontinued. It is what FlixBus managing director DACH Fabian Stenger said to the regional newspaper Mannheimer Morgen with regards to the electric line launched in October 2018 between Frankfurt and Mannheim and operated through...

The first Iveco e-Way just started operations in Genoa (Italy) in the framework of a pilot. It’s the very first time of a battery-electric bus featuring Iveco’s logo. The bus, essentially, is the Heuliez GX 337 Elec, which is going through a re-branding process started at Busworld 2019, ...

Battery cost is bound to fall below $100/kWh by 2024. It used to be, averagely, above $1,100 per kilowatt-hour in 2010. The decrease in battery costs has not ended yet: prices have fallen 87% in real terms to $156/kWh in 2019. All these figures come from the BNEF’s 2019 Battery Price Survey from res...

October: the presentation of the new generation batteries, with amazing stated performances at Busworld Brussels. November: the reduction of the revenue forecast for 2019 due to «unplanned postponement of purchase quantities by our serial customers». Finally, December: the release of Jan-Sept 2019 r...

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The order was signed in March, the start of operation happened on the 29th November. On that day 164 new electric buses were put in operation for Qbuzz in the concession Groningen/Drenthe, in the Netherlands: 45 Citea from VDL Bus & Coach, 59 GX 437 Elec from Heuliez and 60 Ebusco 2.2 buses. Thi...

New trolleybuses are coming to Bergen. For the first time Solaris enters in the Norwegian trolleybus market. The city operator Keolis Norge signed an order for 10 Solaris Trollino 18. In line with the agreement, with a total value of EUR 8 million, the deliveries of the Polish-made trolleybus to Nor...