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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 ...

The EBUS Award 2019 for electric bus manufacturers goes to… VDL Bus & Coach. The prize has been delivered yesterday at ElekBu exhibition in Berlin. Alzo ZF and Heliox were awarded for electric drive and charging infrastructure respectively, while KVB Cologne received two EBUS Award. A Germ...

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...

The newcomer of the electric VDL Citea family got its first order. Finnish public transport company Tammelundin Liikenne Oy, that provides the regional transport in Helsinki for the public transport authority HSL with around 40 buses, is the first customer to place an order for 2 units of VDL Citea ...

Dutch public transport company EBS has put 10 units of the electric bus VDL Citeas SLFA-181 in service. The vehicles will provide the regional transport service in the Waterland region. The electric buses will be deployed on R-net line 316 between Amsterdam and Edam-Volendam. This will result in 135...

VDL Bus & Coach electric bus portfolio gets bigger. The company has extended its Citea Electric product range with two new Low Entry variants, with a length of 12 and 12.9 metres. The Citea SLE Electric benefits from the new generation of battery packs and can be fitted with a variety of chargin...

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Sponsored by BUS2BUS “BUS2BUS 2026 – “Shaping the Future of Mobility Together”. This is the claim of upcoming edition of BUS2BUS, scheduled on April 15 and 16, 2026 in Berlin. The focus will be on concrete solutions, practical experience and strategic exchange, with the goal of bri...

For more than a decade, autonomous buses have been “almost ready.” Demonstrations with safety drivers began around 2015, and ten years later, this is still largely what we see. The reason is not a lack of ambition – it is physics, safety, and economics. Autonomous buses on city streets a...

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43 electric buses in operation in Eindhoven in the framework of the first big project of electric bus fleet with fast charging system. The first, but no more the only. Since May 2018, 100 electric buses are running around Schipol Airport, in Amsterdam. And many of them are in service 24/24 seven day...

Vdl Bus & Coach Sweden AB strengthens the organization with the appointment of Fredrik Dahlborg as new Managing Director. He will take on his new role from 16 August. In May, Umeå municipality in Sweden has announced that the Dutch company Bus & Coach is the winner of the tender for 25 elect...

Electric-hybrid-diesel order by Flemish public transport company De Lijn, that turned to VDL Bus & Coach placing an order for 146 buses. The main part is made up of hybrid buses. Indeed, 84 Citea SLE-120 Hybrids are together in the order with 7 Citea-120 Electric and 55 articulated Citea SLFA-18...

Vdl Bus & Coach has supplied 100 electric buses to Connexxion (part of Transdev) for the Amstelland Meerlanden concession, which were put in service on 1 April 2018. The fleet can pride itself with the title of “Europe’s largest electric bus fleet“. Zero emission concession wit...

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An electric bus fleet on regional lines. VDL is delivering 55 ebuses to Arriva Netherlands

VDL Bus & Coach wins EBUS Award 2019. Also ZF, Heliox and KVB Cologne received the German prize

VDL electric buses ‘conquer’ Amsterdam city

The first VDL Citea Low Entry electric will be delivered in Helsinki (Finland)

VDL in the Netherlands, other 10 electric buses in operation

VDL extends electric bus portfolio with Low Entry vehicles. New batteries developed

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Towards BUS2BUS 2026: industry stakeholders meet in Berlin on 15–16 April to address future bus mobility

Depot-first autonomy for European smartbuses

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An electric bus fleet on regional lines. VDL is delivering 55 ebuses to Arriva Netherlands

VDL Bus & Coach wins EBUS Award 2019. Also ZF, Heliox and KVB Cologne received the German prize

VDL electric buses ‘conquer’ Amsterdam city

The first VDL Citea Low Entry electric will be delivered in Helsinki (Finland)

VDL in the Netherlands, other 10 electric buses in operation

VDL extends electric bus portfolio with Low Entry vehicles. New batteries developed

VDL Bus & Coach and public transport, electric buses are the present. Alex De Jong speaking

New managing director for VDL Bus & Coach Sweden

De Lijn bets on hybrid buses. 84 vehicles out of a 146 units order for VDL

VDL Bus & Coach, in Amsterdam the Europe’s largest electric bus fleet

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