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BYD delivered its first electric bus to the Hungarian market, where the Chinese company produces (at Komaron plant) vehicles for the European market, with the exception of France, which is served by another plant, that started operation a few weeks ago. The first electric bus BYD for Hungary will op...

Chinese company CRRC allies with Hungary’s Ikarus in order to commercialize a joint developed electric bus in Europe. Electrobus Europe Zrt is the result of the partnership between the two companies. The prototype, named CityPioneer (the commercial name is IC 1211 U), has been unveiled this we...

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...

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...

Xuemei Bai, a leading expert and thought leader on urbanization and sustainability, receives the Volvo Environment Prize 2018. More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and the trend keeps growing at an unprecedented rate. In future we will need drastically different ways of planning...

Taking into account external costs (health and climate), electric buses already offer a lower TCO than diesel. On the other hand, the mere economic calculation, thus excluding external costs, shows that a diesel bus today remains more economical than an electric one. It is the result of an in-depth ...

Strasbourg and Lyon bet on electric buses, in Italy 50 zero emission buses are the object of a tender by CONSIP, in Bulgaria seven vehicles will be awarded at the beginning of 2019. Monheim, in Germany, plans to build a driverless line with Easymile. Baia Mare, in Romania, issued a tender for trolle...

Who visited IAA Commercial Vehicles in Hannover (Germany) this year had the chance to see it in a version powered by Efficient Drivetrains. In that occasion Daimler announced the beginning of the cooperation with Proterra. The launch of the first electric school bus realized by Proterra and Thomas B...

Optare Metrodecker EV and Metrocity EV reach the moment of the evolution to new generation. At Euro Bus Expo 2018 in Birmingham, the UK based company unveiled its new electric buses. Both vehicles are expected to run up to 150 miles on a single charge. Fully electric heating for Optare electric buse...

ATM, Milan’s municipal public transport company, has launched last year the most ambitious Italian project to date aimed to the electrification of bus fleet. ATM plans to convert the whole fleet (1,200 buses) to zero emission electric drives by 2030. Now, 25 electric buses by Solaris are runni...