You searched: Scania

Nobina announced it won the service contract for public transport in Piteå municipality (north of Sweden). The operator will accompany the municipality towards a zero emission bus fleet: at the beginning of the contract in July 2020, all city buses (twelve) will be electrically powered. Nobina, 12 e...

Nobina has become BYD largest bus customer in North Europe. The public transport operator, with activities in Scandinavian countries, has ordered further 20 zero emission buses for Sweden. The model chosen is the articulated BYD K11 eBus. Deliveries are planned since 2019. BYD zero emission buses fo...

While the path for the future city buses is apparently clear and opened, for long-distance buses the transition to more sustainable technologies involves number of possibilities. LNG, biofuels, hybrid: these are, to be simple, the three main options manufacturers are facing with, in the need to imag...

Four city buses and twenty taxis from today on are being powered with biomethane produced in a local plant. It’s happening in Bologna: the project is involving public transport company TPER as well as taxi operatore CO.TA.BO. Biomethane comes from Hera Group plant in S. Agata Bolognese and der...

Managing Director for the European and North American markets and responsible for the strategic development of Yutong for markets outside China. These are the positions that today Franco Miniero holds, after economic studies and a long experience in the field of automotive (Fiat, Iveco and Scania gr...

A 27 meter zero emission bus. And it’s not a joke. BYD today launched the K12A in Shenzhen. It’s the world’s longest electric bus. Passenger capacity? Up to 250 people. A real ‘millipede’ developed for BRT system, so far monopolized by diesel or CNG drives. BYD and the ...

Among many pilots, underway and announced, Volvo Buses has unveiled the very first full size autonomous electric bus. The “full size” makes the difference: short driverless shuttle buses are not new (we could mention, for instance, Navya and Easy Mile), but the 12 meter is a real premier...

TPER Bologna brings the number of hybrid buses in the fleet to 86: the largest hybrid fleet in Italy. Last purchase, a fleet of 28 Citaro Hybrid, equipped with mild hybrid technology. 19 of them were presented this morning in Bologna, where two routes will be operated only with hybrid buses. The oth...

Akasol, battery supplier for the Mercedes eCitaro, announces the expansion of a framework agreement with a «Swedish commercial vehicle manufacturer». Behind the expression adopted in the press information released by Akasol should stand Volvo Buses, as Electrive points out. By the end of 2023, the G...

Chinese electric city bus market is close to saturation, thus Chinese manufacturers will look with increasing determination to European and overseas markets. In the meanwhile, global electric bus market is expected to reach over 160,000 units delivered yearly by 2025 (today we have around 2,200 elec...