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First time on Canadian roads for the MCI D45 CRTe LE battery-electric coach, already tested by Flixbus in October 2019. On 9-11 March the long-distance zero emission vehicle has been running through Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.  The operator Coach Atlantic Maritime Bus is th...

The first hydrogen articulated buses in the US goes to… MTD. New Flyer has secured an order for two sixty-foot Xcelsior CHARGE H2, powered via Ballard Power Systems fuel cell modules. The buses will be in operation in Illinois for Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District. Whose fleet is 85 per c...

North America’s first cluster dedicated to researching battery electric and fuel cell electric buses has been launched by CUTRIC (The Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium) together with seven partners. CUTRIC and its members are contributing a total of $4.2 million in fund...

2020 is expected to be a crucial year for the switch of commuter shuttles in the Silicon Valley to battery-electric technology. In this framework, the biotechnology corporation Genentech represents today a bright rare case: the company is going to convert half of its commuter shuttles fleet to zero ...

LFP battery industry must be grateful to Chinese electric bus market. While Western markets primarily use NMC formulas, in China LFP is the main technology. With China accounting for as many as 98 per cent of the electric buses in operation worldwide… the impact of this demand is huge. The top...

15 double decker fuel cell buses will operate in Aberdeen (Scotland), one of the first cities in the world to introduce this category of vehicle. In fact, a new contract was signed this months, in the framework of a project that has Aberdeen City Council, Europea Union (FCH JU) and Scottish Governme...

BYD opened its first bus assembly plant in Canada, the second in North America. The 13,000 square meter facility is located in Newmarket and will serve Canadian market, where the Chinese company is already present with buses on order (or in operation) in Toronto, Victoria, Longeuil, St. Albert and G...

Otokar took the chance of the UITP Summit 2019 to launch its first electric bus. 12 meter long, the e-Kent C (electric variant of the conventional ICE bus Kent C, diesel or gas fuelled) features a brand new design and will be available in Europe in 2020. Otokar has already started to participate to ...

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: ...

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...