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A bus that can move electrically and independently, without driver on board, within the depot? It’s already here. Volvo Buses has recently held a live demonstration of a 7900 Electric city bus equipped for autonomous driving. The demonstration took place in cooperation with Keolis in a depot j...

70 to 75 thousand are produced every year by Cummins for the global bus market. The name of the bigger independent engine builder in the world is nearly synonymous of ‘internal combustion engine’. But things are changing, and Cummins is reorganizing its activities around a new pillar: el...

Rampini and CaetanoBus, two ‘families’ of electric buses become… one. The Italian company Rampini incorporates the CaetanoBus e.City Gold (10.7 and 12-meter version); CaetanoBus includes in its portfolio the short electric buses Rampini E60 and E80. Therefore, as a result, both man...

BYD keeps receiving ebus orders from Norway. Unibuss, one of the main Norway’s principal public transport providers, has just ordered 23 12-meter electric buses by the Chinese manufacturer. Deliveries are scheduled in Q2 2020 for operation on routes in and around the Norwegian capital, Oslo. BYD cla...

Transdev and Volvo Buses (plus, of course, the city of Gothenburg) are the protagonist of the largest single order of electric buses so far signed in Europe. Volvo Buses will in fact deliver as many as 157 electric articulated buses in Gothenburg starting in 2020. The buses, as already reported on S...

ABB invests in Baden on energy storage systems for mobility. A new facility just inaugurated in Baden (Switzerland) will host the production of storage systems for electric buses and trolleybuses, as well as railways and electric trucks. Future uses of storage systems include applications in trolley...

Busworld Europe 2019. The biggest ‘bus and coach only’ exhibition in the world organized its first edition in Brussels from 18 to 23 October 2019. All numbers increased: more space (50,000 to 79,000 sqm), more exhibitors (376 to 511 of which 176 were newcomers) and more visitors (37,274 ...

527 km on a single charge. Iveco Bus announces that the Iveco e-Way just showed at Busworld has demonstrated exceptional efficiency and range during a test day. The bus travelled for 12 hours at an average speed of 46 km/h. Heating and air conditioning were turned off. We may say: it was born a few ...

Another sale success in North Europe for BYD, the new intercity pure electric bus gets its first order. The Chinese company has just received one of its largest single orders from a European public transport authority: a total of 55 pure electric eBus units will be supplied next year to for Norway’s...

The electric Tribus Movitas is the eye-catcher among the solutions displayed by the Dutch company at Busworld.  Tribus is attending the exhibition with, beyond the Movitas, the low floor Civitas Economy and the TrilfexAIR 2.0 flooring system. The design for the electric Movitas was already in the fi...