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The order was signed in March, the start of operation happened on the 29th November. On that day 164 new electric buses were put in operation for Qbuzz in the concession Groningen/Drenthe, in the Netherlands: 45 Citea from VDL Bus & Coach, 59 GX 437 Elec from Heuliez and 60 Ebusco 2.2 buses. Thi...

Below, a contribution from Vincent Wever, sustainable transport specialist at consultancy agency Goudappel Coffeng. In September, the city of Leiden had a silent milestone: the 500th zero emission bus in the Netherlands went into service. We’ve come a long way since in 2015, the leaders of the PTAs ...

Carbon-free vehicles only. In 2039 Daimler Trucks & Buses will be selling only battery-electric and hydrogen powered buses and trucks, at least in the main markets of Europe, North America and Japan. In the same regions, battery-electric commercial vehicles will be in serial production by 2022. ...

Long range and quick refueling times at the depot are among the main advantages shown by hydrogen fuel cell buses when compared to battery electric vehicles. And 2019 will be easily remembered as the year that saw hydrogen technology stepping into the spotlight again. At UITP Global Public Transport...

Curtain has been risen on a new electric BRT line in French Basque Country, operated by Keolis through ten Irizar articulated electric buses. The line, 12 km long, features 30 stations and connects Bayonne with Biarritz in 30 minutes. A second line will be opened in 2020, when further 8 vehicles wil...

Proterra announced that Mike Boggess has joined the company’s growing technical engineering team as Vice President of Controls, Electrical and Thermal Systems. In his new role at Proterra, Boggess will be responsible for driving the company’s technology roadmap and program launch efforts and will le...

65,000 employees, 16 countries, a dozen modes of transport operated including bike and car sharing. Keolis is one of the world’s leading public transport groups. Although it prefers to define itself a ‘shared mobility’ operator. In this talk with Sustainable Bus, Keolis’ Inte...

Amiens Métropole and Keolis just launched what they claims to be “the first electric BRT in France”. The service is operated by electric buses on four new rapid transit routes. The buses involved in this project are 43 model of Irizar ie tram that are now part of a fleet of 136 buses dep...

Not on the roof, neither on the back. Rafako puts the battery packs in the chassis. The unveiling of the Rafako Ebus prototype represents a two-way innovation: it is the first step in the world of electromobility taken by a company that mainly deals with power generation and it shows a solution (bat...

Toyota will provide its hydrogen fuel cell technology (including fuel cell stacks, hydrogen tanks and other key components) to Caetanobus SA in Portugal, to build hydrogen fuel cell city buses. The first zero emission fuel cell city buses will roll off the lines of Caetanobus in a little over a year...