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Zenobē announces it has secured a further £410 million (482m euros) in financing to speed up its support for the roll-out of electric buses across the UK. The announcement, in addition to its existing £241m pioneering financing platform established in 2022, and the the investment of c.£600m from KKR...

First Bus and West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) have announced a further £11.2m investment in the operator’s Bramley depot which will make half the fleet zero emission before the end of 2024. WYCA with support from First Bus have been successful in securing £3.4m in a ‘variation request’ from...

The first new electric buses from First Bus South, operator of First Bus Solent, have entered service in Portsmouth, Fareham and Gosport. They are the first of 62 buses which will be rolled over the coming weeks for passengers on a series of routes. Funding was secured by the Department for Transpor...

First Bus is introducing the largest fleet of zero emission buses in West Yorkshire. A fleet of 57 electric buses sourced by Wrightbus is beginning to appear on the network and due to be completed by the end of March. The bus operator made the announcement today Tuesday 5 March as directors joined w...

Record fuel consumption for the new generation of the Alexander Dennis Enviro400EV, which completed the Zemo Partnership’s zero-emission bus testing and certification program with an energy consumption of only 0.67 kWh/km. A figure that actually makes it the most efficient electric double-deck...

A new tender in Santiago de Chile has been issued in mid-December 2023 to renew 30 percent of the public transport system Red Movilidad. The tender provides for the introduction in the network of 1,200 zero emission buses (out of 2,100 new buses) and ’embraces’ 121 routes (15 of those ar...

The Go-Ahead Group has joined partners in Oxford to launch one of the UK’s biggest fleets of electric buses. A £82.5 million project will deliver 159 battery buses onto the streets of Oxford – the first of which have already gone into service, Go-Ahead states. Go-Ahead had just been celebrating...

London’s largest bus operator, Go-Ahead London, states it has delivered a saving of 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over ten years of operation of emission-free electric buses on behalf of Transport for London. Go-Ahead London operates 520 zero emission buses on behalf of TfL and expects t...

Optibus, an artificial intelligence operating system for public transportation, has been chosen by SONDA S.A., a contractor of the Directorio de Transporte Público Metropolitano (DTPM) of Santiago, as the official planning, scheduling, and EV management software for all buses across the city, with t...

First Bus has appointed Tom Donnelly as Operations Manager for York depot. He leads of team of staff managers and supervisors supporting a crew of over 200 drivers and a fleet of more than 80 buses. Tom Donnelly appointed Operations Manager for First Bus’ York depot An order of 53 StreetDeck E...