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MAN Truck & Bus is providing its customers with a new option for charging their electric trucks and buses. The Smart Charging Cube, offered in cooperation with AW Automotive, can be operated in a vehicle depot or maintenance yard as well as in decentralised locations, such as...

Polish city of Białystok has placed an order for 30 Yutong U12 electric buses through Busnex Poland, the local distributor. This follows the delivery of 20 Yutong E12 electric buses in 2023, which are currently in service on the city’s public transport network. The contract also includes 25 depot ch...

15 First Bus depots in Scotland and England will be opened to third parties in an effort to support the transition to net zero — for businesses, fleet operators, and now, in Glasgow, for the wider public. The move is part of First Bus ‘First Charge’ initiative. The First Bus Caledonia de...

Obligatory premise: there is nothing official at the moment. Only, so to speak, news and press launches that have been chasing each other since the afternoon of Friday 18 July, under the impulse of a Reuters article. The Exor holding company, which holds the relative majority of shares in Iveco Grou...

Polish manufacturer Solaris Bus & Coach has signed a contract to supply 73 articulated Trollino 18 trolleybuses to the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. The agreement forms part of a broader strategy to upgrade the city’s electric public transport system and support its long-term zero-emission mobilit...

Arriva Group has completed a £17m electrification project at its Norwood Depot in South London, UK. The electrification of the Norwood depot, delivered through Arriva UK Bus and in partnership with fleet electrification specialist Zenobē, includes state-of-the-art smart charging facilities and signi...

Iveco Bus announces it has signed a new contract with OTW, the public transport operator of Wallonia (Belgium), for the supply of 127 Crossway Low Entry buses. The vehicles will be deployed in the Liège and Namur regions in two phases: 83 units will be delivered from the first quarter of 2026, follo...

On-demand transit specialist Via Transportation announces has taken the first formal step toward going public. On July 16, the company announced in a press note that it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), initi...

Montreal‘s Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain (ARTM), in Canada, has awarded a contract to ticketing specialist Masabi for the development and implementation of a new fare collection solution under the Software-as-a-Service method. The initiative is part of the Concerto project, a m...

Valencia‘s municipal transport company EMT has ordered 57 electric buses from MAN within a wider order of 84 vehicles, the remaining 27 being Lion’s City 18 with MAN EfficientHybrid technology. They will be delivered and put into operation in stages from the end of 2026. This is the larg...