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Further 49 VDL articulated electric buses will join 13 units already in operation. The city of Osnabrück places itself at the forefront of the transition to zero emission buses in Germany. Today, Friday 5 July, signatures were placed on a new cooperation agreement between Stadtwerke Osnabrück and VD...

Arriva Netherlands is scaling up on electric bus deployment. Limburg’s province, in South Netherlands, set an ambitious goal: by 2026 the whole public transport network must be fully electric. The delivery of 55 electric regional buses by VDL Bus & Coach is part of the itinerary that will ...

VDL electric bus ‘family’ becomes larger. A 14.5 metre Citea Electric is the novelty announced today by VDL Bus & Coach in occasion of UITP Global Public Transport Summit 2019 in Stockholm. It’ll be in production next year. The new variant bus, thus, is not in display: instead,...

The first electric buses in Amsterdam city will be powered by Heliox 8MW fast charge network. 31 VDL electric buses will start operation in 2020, and the contract includes an option for additional 69 zero emission buses to be added int he coming years. The entire GVB fleet is planned to be converted...

More than 160 electric buses will hit the streets of the new concession Groningen-Drenthe, in the Netherlands. The public transport operator Qbuzz, owned by Italian railways FS, will receive the large batch of vehicles from three manufacturers: the largest fleet will be provided by Ebusco with 60 eb...

Electric buses are expensive not only for the customer… but also for the manufacturer. While it is known that an electric bus costs in average more than twice as much as a corresponding diesel model (around 40 per cent goes for the batteries), the costs in research and development of electric ...

Following, our 4th and last report about Ebus test 2018, held in Bonn in October 2018. The event is organized by the German magazine Omnibusspiegel. In this fourth article we focus on the VDL Citea SLFA-181 Electric, one of the three contenders. You can click HERE for the introduction, HERE for the ...

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...

Following, we report about Ebus test 2018, held in Bonn in October 2018. The event is organized by the German magazine Omnibusspiegel. Below, the first article, as introduction. Successively, we will publish one detailed article on each vehicle. Keep following! Between 1.65 and 1.84 kilowatt hours p...

On 12 December, Amsterdam’s public transport company GVB and VDL Bus & Coach signed the contract for delivery of 31 electric Citeas (9 solo buses and 22 articulated), with the option for 69 extra electric buses. VDL is also responsible for implementation of the charging infrastructure. The...