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Vy Buss has ordered 73 battery-electric buses from Volvo Buses to support the planned shift to fully electric city operations in the Swedish city of Borås by April 2027. The electric bus procurement covers three vehicle types: 46 Volvo 7900 Electric Articulated units for high-capacity urban corridor...

The state of Jalisco, in Mexico, has ordered 53 Volvo electric buses for the Guadalajara metropolitan area, Volvo Buses announces. The fleet is planned to be operational in December 2025, ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup to be held in Canada, Mexico and the United States The order covers high-floor,...

Egyptian bus bodybuilder MCV has inaugurated today, 16 September, a new production facility in Cairo dedicated to Volvo’s electric bus range for Europe. The Volvo MCV plant is announced with a production capacity of 1,200 vehicles per year, confirming the strategic shift initiated in March 2023, whe...

Brazilian city of Goiânia will be handed over the first Volvo electric bi-articulated bus based on chassis BZRT. As a result of a deal between Volvo Buses and GreenMob Capital, an investment company of the HP Group, specialized in structuring capital-intensive projects associated with the urban mobi...

Arriva London has placed an order for 51 Volvo BZL Electric Double Deck buses. They’ll housed in Tottenham garage and serve routes 341 and 243 from 2025. Volvo will take care of chassis while bodywork will be provided by Egyptian MCV. According to UK trade media Routeone, “The buses will...

Volvo Buses and the Spanish coachbuilder Castrosua have officially entered a strategic co-operation agreement for the production of electric buses headed to the Spanish market, as reported on Swedish trade media bussmagasinet.se. Castrosua has already entered similar agreements with BYD and Scania (...

A project to repower and convert 18 Volvo diesel buses to electric. Kleanbus has announced a pilot project with bus operator Lothian (Edinburgh) to repower and convert 18 of its existing diesel vehicles to electric. The partnership with Kleanbus marks an important step forward in the operator’...

Scottish bus operator Lothian has announced an order for 50 new Volvo BZL Electric double deck buses, each with MCV bodywork, for Scotland’s capital city Edinburgh. At an investment of over £24million, Lothian will introduce these new vehicles in two batches across 2024, with the first vehicles appe...

Stagecoach has announced plans to introduce 170 electric buses in Stockport (Manchester area): it’s the operator’s largest electric bus order to date. Stagecoach is introducing a further 122 new fully electric buses in key transport networks across the UK in the next 12 months. The elect...

The UK will soon see the deployment of 25 Volvo BZL Electric 10.8m single deck buses, which will operate across East, South, and North Ayrshire. The BZL platform was launched in late 2021. In this case, bodywork will be by MCV. The order from Stagecoach West Scotland marks the first customer orders ...