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The events, mostly negative (debts, breakdowns, buses on fire), related to the public transport company ATAC (Rome) are quite well known even outside Italy. For this reason, the news that Rome is investing in electric buses cannot fail to amaze. But let’s be precise: by summer 2019, stated the...

26 Iveco Crealis Cng fuelled will be the “skeleton” of the Bus Rapid Transit “Lémergent”, just launched by the Abidjan Transport Company (SOTRA) of Abidjan, the former political capital of the Ivory Coast (and one of the most populous French-speaking cities in Africa). These ...

City Sightseeing Italy group presented in Milan its first double-decker electric bus for city sightseeing. The bus is realized by Ankai and moved by Zf electric axle. It has already passed the road tests in Florence and Milan and begin service in Milan on December 7th. Other tests will follow during...

51 electric buses in four municipalities. The capital city Bucharest is not involved. Romanian government, together with the municipalities, issued a tender for 12 meters electric buses, 15 fast charging stations and 51 slow charging stations. The whole contract is worth 30 million euros (141 375 00...

Heliox has delivered to The Hague a fast charging system, which combines the principals of opportunity and CCS plug-in charging to the project to charge 9 VDL electric buses. It’ll be used by the operator HTM. In total, the delivery consists of 6 fast chargers: a Heliox OC 300 kW charger with ...

After winning tenders for the delivery of electric buses to Berlin and Hamburg (in both cities the victory is split with Mercedes, that is also delivering its electric bus eCitaro), Solaris signed a contract for the production of three Solaris Urbino 12 electric vehicles for Munich and the surroundi...

California bus fleets will be made of electric buses only, according the Innovative Clean Transit rule, voted by California’s Air Resources Board (CARB). It requires public transit agencies throughout the state to commit to buying only zero-emission buses (battery electric or fuel cell) starti...

Electric buses towards the debut in Poznań (Poland). The city will enjoy the benefit of 21 electric buses running in the city, with photovoltaic cell system on the roof. The municipal operator MPK and Solaris Bus & Coach today (14th December) have signed a contract for the delivery of the vehicl...

After 24 editions of Busworld Europe in the picturesque city of Kortrijk, Busworld is moving to Bruxelles, the capital of Belgium… and Europe. Easier to reach with an international airport and train station next door, more hotel rooms, a lively city with top of the bill horeca and entertainmen...

On 12 December, Amsterdam’s public transport company GVB and VDL Bus & Coach signed the contract for delivery of 31 electric Citeas (9 solo buses and 22 articulated), with the option for 69 extra electric buses. VDL is also responsible for implementation of the charging infrastructure. The...