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In 2021 Germany saw a doubling of zero emission buses onto its streets (they reached 1,269 compared to 683). Indeed, 586 new battery-electric and fuel cell buses were added in 2021. This means that the number of new registrations grew by almost 60 percent compared to 2020 and the 1,000 vehicles mark...

Everfuel has been awarded contract for constructing and commissioning of a heavy-duty hydrogen refuelling station in Wuppertal, Germany. After a European-wide tendering procedure, WSW mobil GmbH has awarded Everfuel GmbH the contract for a hydrogen refuelling station that will serve a fleet of fuel ...

The board of directors of De Lijn has started a new procurement for the purchase of up to 1,250 emission-free buses of different types with lengths between 8.5 to 24 metres. This procedure runs parallel to the framework agreement for a maximum of 350 standard e-buses that was awarded last year. De L...

Public transport exhibitions – as in any sector – are back in 2022. After two years of cancellations and postponements (with digital events in replacement) due to the pandemic, bus-related and transit-related European and global events are finally back. Let’s now focus our attentio...

Operators can receive an annual sum of up to 21,700 euros when they replace a diesel bus with a zero-emission bus under the current contracts. Flemish Climate Plan shifts into high gear: 300 extra electric buses run by operators in the next 3 years will reduce CO2 emissions by 50,000 tonnes. Ministe...

A just-delivered hydrogen bus caught fire in late October in the Netherlands. The vehicle is a Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen under the livery of Arriva NL, and is part of a ten-units order commissioned in early 2021. They were expected to be operating in the province of Gelderland in December of this y...

CaetanoBus is going to launch the articulated 18m zero emission bus in 2023, said CEO Patrícia Vasconcelos at the European Zero Emission Bus Conference which is taking place today and tomorrow in Paris. CaetanoBus vehicle will be offered both in fuel cell and electric version. And in 2022 the Portug...

All Aboard America! Holdings has bought the largest battery electric double decker motor coach in the US by Lightning eMotors and ABC Companies. The vehicle is a Van Hool bus gone through a conversion process. It is now powered with 640 kWh battery capacity. All-electric powertrains provider Lightni...

by Stefano Alfanopictures by Roberto Renzi 82 years after the inauguration of trolleybus line 11, which connects Rimini to Riccione via the coast, another trolleybus line was inaugurated yesterday. It is the Rapid Coastal Transport (TRC), known as Metromare, which connects Rimini Station and Riccion...

by Stefano Alfano After a year and a half from the launch of the Metromare (23 November 2019), as the TRC (Trasporto Rapido Costiero) is identified, what is the situation of the trolleybus service in Rimini today? Last winter, the trolleybus infrastructure of the TRC was tested and USTIF issued the ...