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Olectra-BYD has signed a contract with the north Indian state of Uttarakhand to deliver 500 electric buses. The contract is valued at about 82 millions euros. The curtain on the partnership between the Indian and the Chinese company was raised in Bangalore at Busworld India 2018. Local electric buse...

Westcoast Sightseeing is moving toward the electrification of the whole fleet, BYD Canada has been chosen as the preferred partner for the transition. The transport company, that prides itself to be the largest private bus operator in Vancouver, has in fact agreed to work exclusively with BYD on con...

Volvo Buses has been the first manufacturer to stop the production and commercialization of dieseI buses for European market, at the moment of the entrance into force of Euro VI standard. We met the president of Volvo Buses Håkan Agnevall at IAA 2018, where the company received the Sustainable Bus A...

Batteries: there’s a whole life beyond the bus! Reusing and recycling of battery is one of the key issue of the transition to electromobility. Volvo Buses is developing a test in Gothenburg, where bus batteries that have finished their life on an electric bus try to be useful again for storing...

Sales-Lentz in Luxembourg has ordered five Solaris electric buses. The Polish company started its cooperation with Sales-Lentz (that has several electric buses by Volvo in the fleet) last year when it delivered its first vehicle to Luxembourg. Having ordered a bus with a conventional combustion engi...

Stadtwerke München (SWM) planned the procurement of 40 electric buses for the city’s transit operator MVG. The first order has been placed to Ebusco. The Dutch company will provide its new generation Ebusco 2.2 in four units. The first 6 buses (also two articulated electric buses will be delivered, ...

Electric buses at the starting blocks: they’ll have the opportunity to show their value on Bonn’s streets during three days test. Ebus Test 2018, focused this year on articulated electric buses, is underway. There are three contenders: Solaris Urbino 18 Electric, VDL Citea Slfa-181 Elect...

Busworld Academy and UITP have announced a continuation of a strategic partnership that will see the two collaborate for the International Bus Conference in 2019. The agreement – jointly signed by Busworld Academy President Redgy Deschacht and UITP Secretary General Mohamed Mezghani – continue...

Solaris Bus & Coach solidified its position as European leader in trolleybus production. Last step in this successful period is the order of 85 Trollino 12 by the public transport operator of Kaunas city, UAB Kauno Autobusai, in Lithuania. The delivery of the zero-emission vehicles from Bolechow...

Standardization in electric bus charging systems is one of the main issues involved in the adoption of electric buses by transport companies. Heliox moves in this direction providing a system that the company calls “the first multi-standard solution”: indeed, it allow dual manufacturer electric buse...