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by Stefano Alfano Yesterday afternoon the first new generation trolleybus for ATM fleet landed in Milan, directly from Poland. Produced by Solaris Bus & Coach, with electric equipment by Kiepe Electric, the new articulated Trollino is the first of 80 vehicles (with possible option for further de...

UITP Global Public Transport Summit 2019 sees the ‘consecration’ of battery electric buses and relaunches hydrogen buses (at least in the world of product novelties). Solaris presented its Urbino 12 hydrogen, that promises an autonomy of 350 kilometers. This model is not just a concept: ...

A newly formed group of companies committed to produce a fuel cell bus (and infrastructure) that could be sustainable not only from the environmental… but also from the economical point of view. It’s the target of H2Bus Consortium, whose members are working together to deploy 1,000 zero-...

15 per cent of Messina public transport buses are now electric. BYD delivered a few days ago as many as 16 zero emission buses to ATM Messina, the operator of the Sicilian city (Italy). The new buses are model K7, thus 8.7 meter long. BYD has now secured over 50% of the total electric bus market [&h...

Alexander Dennis’s story as an independent bus builder has come to an end. The British company, the world’s leading manufacturer of double decker buses, has been taken over by the Canadian group NFI for 405 million dollars (some 360 million euros). The operation aims to “create a m...

Solaris bets on fuel cell technology and is ready to unveil, at UITP Public Transport Global Summit 2019, the Urbino 12 hydrogen. But this won’t be the only premiere that the Polish manufacturer will release in Stockholm: also the latest version of the Solaris Urbino 12 Electric will be presen...

650 electric buses delivered to a total of 44 European cities in 12 countries. This is the ‘business card’ of BYD Europe, the first overseas subsidiary of the Chinese giant BYD. Established in Rotterdam in 1998, the company is today the European market leader in electric bus sales (as we...

Allison Transmission launches in North American market an electric axle powertrain system developed for electric buses. The company unveiled the new e-axle range, under the denomination ABE series, at the Advanced Clean Technology Expo in Long Beach, California. In late April Allison announced the p...

Transport for London will operate 20 fuel cell double decker buses (through EU funded JIVE project). The vehicles, built by British manufacturer Wrightbus and powered by Ballard Power Systems, are scheduled to arrive in London next year. In the same year 2020 also Liverpool is going to have the firs...

In 2018, 5% of city buses registered in Western Europe and Poland were battery-electric buses. Electric buses registrations increased by 48% between 2017 and 2018. The figures comes from CME Solutions, which quantifies 562 registrations of battery-electric buses over 8 tons made during 2018. 562 ele...