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National Express Coventry is trialling a fully electric Volvo bus on the city’s roads over the coming weeks. The city is set to become the first all-electric bus city in UK. The single deck Volvo BZL Electric demonstrator can carry up to 75 passengers and is currently on loan to National Express Cov...

The consortium of SOR Libchavy and Škoda Group has signed a framework contract with Košice Public Transport Company, in Slovakia, for the delivery of up to 30 articulated 18-metre electric buses in the second largest city in the country. What is worth noticing, the vehicles are set to be charged dur...

Seattle’s carrier King County Metro (KCM) has entered a five-year partnership with INIT to provide an advanced vehicle health monitoring system and smart charge management system from CarMedialab, a member of the INIT Group. The cloud-based technologies will be conveyed across an initial forty...

FlixBus has launched in mid August a 100% electric long-distance coach service between Cambridge and London in partnership with carrier Whippet and Zenobē. The route is an almost 200km (124 miles) round trip, and is trialled for six weeks on FlixBus’ long-distance coach network. The news follows the...

by Usha Praveen Blackbuck EV’s first model of the ELON 3X, a 13.5-meter seating bus, is currently undergoing internal road tests to ensure it meets top standards for performance and durability. Initial results are promising, and Blackbuck EV is dedicated to continuing these tests to achieve fu...

Otokar announces it has exported for the first time its self-developed telematics solution, Bus Monitor, to Portugal. The Turkish group is therefore expanding its export portfolio of vehicles to include technological solutions. Designed to optimize public transport operations, Bus Monitor helps oper...

Belgian private bus operator Hansea has 90 MAN Lion’s City E buses in operation and in early August landed a deal for a further 181 e-buses from the same OEM, bringing its fleet to a total of 271 of the fully electric city buses. A success story that began back in 2021 with the test […]

With the handover of 10 Mercedes eCitaro electric buses on last Wednesday, the share of electric buses in the fleet of the mobility service provider HEAG mobilo in the German city of Darmstadt will increase to around 65 percent. E-buses from Mercedes‑Benz are now used on all lines in the operating a...

Daimler Truck reported a strong performance in the bus segment despite a complex market situation in the first half of the year. During that period, 12,252 buses were sold (+4% on half 2023) and revenue at Daimler Buses increased 27% (from 1.9 billion to 2.4). Adjusted EBIT rose from 42 to 174 billi...

The bus, fitted with 472kWh batteries as standard (the supplier is the Polish Impact), comes together with a 14-years warranty, covering as many as 1 million km (whichever comes first). The vehicle launched this week is a demonstrator "which will be made available to operators upon completion of its...