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Electric bus adoption in public transport urban fleet is growing all over the world. It started in China, and it has taken a few years for other regions to start the transition. But now Europe is booming: the year 2019 will be remembered as the year when the electric bus sales volumes definitiv...

A new actor shows up on the North American stage of electric bus manufacturers. Gillig, indeed, in May 2019 took the opportunity of the APTA (American Public Transportation Association) conference to announce the launch of its first 12-meter electric bus, after a premiere held at the end of April. D...

Electric buses around the world will reduce demand for diesel by 270,000 barrels by the end of this year. Three times the displacement of all electric passenger vehicles in the world (a market where Tesla has a share of about 12 percent). The outcome of a Bloomberg New Energy report, earlier this ye...

Today MZA Warsaw, in Poland, signed a contract for the purchase of 130 electric articulated buses Solaris Urbino 18 Electric. The news is reported on the Polish magazine InfoBus. The order will allow Warsaw to eliminate diesel powered buses from the so called “Royal route”, in the center...

Gothenburg will soon have 220 electric bus units on its public transport network. Public transport agency Västtrafik, after having ordered 30 electric buses from Volvo in summer 2018, took the option for another batch of as many as 130 electric buses. The buses will be operated in Gothenburg, Mölnda...

Argentina has its first electric bus fleet. 18 vehicles began operations a few days ago in the city of Mendoza. 12 units come from BYD. The zero emission bus fleet is operated by STM. BYD delivered to Mendoza 12 K9 units The 12-meter K9 model buses feature low floors, air conditioning and heating sy...

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Public transport authorities and operators all over the world are moving towards a growing deployment of full electric buses. Providing vehicles and full service, charging infrastructures, smart city services: these are the pillars of Enel X offers in the field of e-buses, as the utility company has...

The Yutong Xiaoyu 2.0 has been awarded the design prize 2021 Red Dot Award. Developed by the Chinese group – the largest bus builder in the world for production volumes -, the 5.5-meter shuttle bus stands out for being the world’s first autonomous bus recognized by world-class industrial desig...

Siemens ELFA drivetrains have already left 2 billion kilometers on five continents behind. The modular electric drivetrain and software solution for hybrid, battery, and fuel cell buses and trucks has resulted as an hallmark for the Siemens business unit Commercial Vehicles (CV). How the ELFA techno...

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The EU funded project ASSURED has released a new report (addressed to charging infrastructure suppliers and ebus manufacturers) enabling electric bus interoperability testing. The document aims to bring the standardisation of ebus charging one step closer, as it includes the most common automated fa...

34 CaetanoBus electric buses will hit London roads. Public transport operator Abellio has in fact confirmed an order for a batch of Caetano e.City Gold, the vehicle displayed by the Portoguese manufacturer at UITP Summit in Stockholm. The new buses will enter service from March 2020. These will...

ATM Milano, on the way to convert the whole bus fleet to electric drives, takes its relation with Solaris to a new level. Even the second tender, for up to 250 electric buses (much larger in size than the first, for 25 units), went to the Polish manufacturer. Two companies made their bids: Solaris a...

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...