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The Omnibusspiegel E-Bus Test 2026 is underway in Bonn from 23 to 27 March, featuring a test program with a strong focus on fuel cell buses, following 2025’s lens on 12-meter BEV buses and scrutiny of articulated e-buses in 2024. The annual initiative, organized by German trade media Omnibussp…

Sponsored by IONCOR Finnish battery specialist IONCOR is expanding its focus on heavy-duty applications, positioning its modular battery platforms for electric bus OEMs across Europe. The European battery systems specialist, formerly the battery division of Valmet Automotive, has transitioned into a…

The fourth edition of Busworld Southeast Asia is scheduled to take place from 20 to 22 May 2026 at Jakarta International Expo, Kemayoran. According to the Busworld press release, the exhibition is positioned in one of Asia’s largest bus markets, with Indonesia described as ranking among the ten larg…

Understanding batteries has become a prerequisite for managing electric vehicles fleets. State of Charge, State of Health, degradation mechanisms, charging dynamics, data ownership and battery chemistries are now brought together in a single structured publication with the launch of The Battery Cycl…

Autonomous driving technologies are gradually appearing in public transport operations across Europe through pilot services and demonstrations, with a recent study by McKinsey stating that one out of three bus operators in Europe is considering buying an autonomous bus in the next five years. In a v…

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VDL Group reported a 5% decrease in revenue for 2025, totaling €4.064 billion, compared to €4.281 billion in 2024. Despite this drop, the company saw a substantial 83% increase in net income, which rose to €121 million from €66 million in the previous year. The group’s order backlog decreased by 6% …

Karsan recorded €330 million turnover in 2025 (growing 11%), with electric vehicles accounting for67% of revenues and plans for driverless operations (i.e. with no safety driver) starting in 2026. The company reports operations in 27 countries with an electric fleet exceeding 2,100 vehicles. Karsan,…

At Mobility Move 2026 in Berlin, the decarbonisation of public transport fleets and the future integration of autonomous technologies were central themes. Germany has already reached over 40% zero-emission buses in the city bus market, but scaling further remains challenging. Key issues include infr…

by Usha Praveen EKA Mobility, in partnership with GreenCell Mobility, has received a Letter of Award (LOA) for deploying 915 electric buses in Hyderabad. The same ‘duo’ of EKA and GreenCell Mobility has recently delivered 75 e-buses in Puducherry. This project is part of the Government o…

The UK Department for Transport has published a 10-year zero-emission bus order pipeline indicating up to 21,525 vehicles expected between 2026 and 2035. The dataset consolidates anticipated procurement volumes from local transport authorities and bus operators, providing an aggregated view of expec…

Arriva Group has announced in mid-March a £340m investment programme in the UK, with communities in West Yorkshire the first to benefit from brand-new lower-emission buses. The programme is set to fund new vehicles and depot upgrades. The first phase is already underway, with 50 new single and doubl…

ZF closed 2025 with higher operating profitability, stronger free cash flow and lower net debt, while reporting a net loss after one-off charges linked mainly to the early termination of non-profitable electric mobility projects. The German group, following anticipations released in January, reporte…

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The UK government has allocated £73.2 million to support 484 zero-emission buses across England. The funding, assigned to councils and combined authorities, is complemented by £94 million from operators and local authorities, bringing total investment to over £167 million. The news is reported on lo…

A £92.7 million investment will fund the introduction of 186 electric buses in Sheffield, in in South Yorkshire. According to the BBC, the funding includes £33.4 million from the UK government and £58.3 million from the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA). An additional £26 million fr…

The Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) Chennai has launched the MTC Gold Premium Bus service using air-conditioned electric buses on selected corridors in the city. The service operates with Switch Mobility EiV 12 electric buses and represents a new premium category within the city’s public tr…

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TPER is preparing to finally introduce 127 hydrogen buses in Bologna, with the first vehicles expected to enter service by the end of May. TPER presented its upcoming hydrogen bus deployment during a press event held on 11 March at the Battindarno depot in Bologna, where the hydrogen refuelling infr…

CaetanoBus has led the deployment of a hydrogen-powered Bus Rapid Transit system in the Portoguese city of Porto through a consortium delivering an integrated hydrogen mobility solution. The city has launched its first hydrogen-powered Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor through a consortium led by Cae…

Aberdeen City Council is preparing to sell its fleet of 25 hydrogen-powered double-decker buses after ending its joint venture with BP, with the vehicles parked for over a year. The 60-seat buses, by Wrightbus, entered service in early 2021 and were described as a “world-first” hydrogen double-deck …

Fuel cell bus startup Arthur Bus has filed for insolvency, formally halting its hydrogen bus manufacturing activity in Lublin. The insolvency filing submitted by Arthur Bus marks the formal collapse of the company’s operations and brings an immediate stop to its role as supplier of hydrogen buses fo…

Victor Valley Transit Authority, in California, has introduced in mid-January 13 hydrogen buses (by New Flyer), an interim hydrogen fueling station and new agency branding during a public ceremony in California’s High Desert. The unveiling took place at a ribbon-cutting event attended by local, regi…

DB Regio subsidiary Weser-Ems-Bus has launched a hydrogen bus fleet in Friesland with six Caetano vehicles. The rollout fits Deutsche Bahn’s broader strategy to expand alternative drivetrains across its bus networks and increase the share of zero-emission operations. Friesland is a rural district (L…

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Infrastructure investment, the financing of the Deutschlandticket, the electrification of bus fleets, the sector’s path toward automation and digitalisation. Ahead of Mobility Move 2026, set to take place in Berlin from 10 to 12 March, Sustainable Bus spoke with Ingo Wortmann, President of the Germa…

Sponsored by UITP Summit As the UITP Global Summit 2026 prepares to take place in Dubai on 21-23 April, questions around governance, decarbonisation, funding models, digitalisation and the evolving passenger experience are shaping the agenda of the global public transport sector. The choice of Dubai…

From growth and capacity expansion to diversification, electrification and the arrival of new competitors from Asia, Altas Auto enters 2026 with several strategic fronts open at once. After a stronger 2025 — supported by its core Mercedes and MAN conversion business and new deliveries of imported bu…

During Busworld Europe 2025, BorgWarner outlined the structure and industrial rationale behind its current and next-generation battery offering. Martin Busche, Vice President Battery R&D, Product Strategy and Program Management, described a family of LFP and NMC battery packs built on shared har…

With more than 7,000 e-buses in operation or on order across 26 countries, BYD continues to consolidate its position in Europe’s electric bus market. In 2025 the company celebrated a major milestone, delivering its 5,000th eBus in Europe to Danish operator Umove. Henry Zhang, Managing Director of th…

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Megawatt charging systems are moving from pilot phase to structured deployment, with interoperability testing now underway alongside major European OEMs. In an interview conducted during Kempower’s Live Winter Days in Sweden, Antti Vuola, VP Products at the Finnish manufacturer, detailed the company…

The Schaffhausen regional bus network will be electrified by 2027 as Verkehrsbetriebe Schaffhausen (VBSH) expands charging infrastructure at the Regional Bus Centre (RBZ) following a Mercedes eCitaro supply contract signed in December 2024. A fleet of Irizar e-buses was deployed in the previous year…

Daimler Buses announces it will install four public charging stations for electric buses at Munich Central Bus Station (ZOB) by the end of 2026. The manufacturer has signed an agreement with Wealthcap, asset and investment manager representing the owner of the Munich ZOB, to deploy the infrastructur…

Italy is the fourth country worldwide where Hitachi Energy’s Grid-eMotion Flash ultra-fast charging system for electric buses will be deployed, with operations starting from 2026. After deployments in Geneva in Switlerland (the well known pioneeristic TOSA project), Nantes and Brisbane, the system w…

Phoenix Contact has developed a CCS vehicle charging inlet that integrates the charging controller directly into the inlet assembly for commercial electric vehicles. It’s named CHARX connect advanced, and it aims at consolidating charging communication and control functions within the vehicle-…

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More than 1,300 Solaris battery-equipped buses delivered between 2013 and 2019 are now part of an ageing European e-bus fleet. These vehicles are at the centre of a battery retrofit offer launched by Solaris in December 2025, focusing on earlier-generation electric buses currently in operation acros…

Ballard Power Systems announces it has signed an agreement with New Flyer for 500 fuel cell bus engines totaling 50 MW, with deliveries starting in 2026. Ballard Power Systems and New Flyer, part of NFI Group, announced a commercial agreement for the supply of 500 FCmove-HD+ fuel cell engines for in…

Bosch presented the FCPM C100 fuel cell module for city buses at Mobility Move in Berlin, expanding its hydrogen propulsion portfolio for public transport applications. The new component is a compact hydrogen fuel-cell system designed for integration in city buses. Bosch FCPM C100 fuel cell module f…

CNG & LNG

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The U.S. Federal Transit Administration has announced on November 20th a nationwide investment package totaling $2 billion for 165 transit projects across 45 states and Washington, D.C. It is one of the most extensive funding rounds of recent years, designed to support fleet renewals, depot upgrades…

In Italy, recent investments reflect a significant interest towards methane-powered buses as part of the country’s strategy to modernize its public transport fleet with low-emission options. With initiatives from both the national procurement body Consip and the Puglia Region, both released during t…

Bologna’s municipal public transport operator TPER has inaugurated its new LNG (liquefied natural gas), bioLNG and L-CNG (compressed natural gas derived from liquid methane) distribution station inside the company depot in via Ferrarese, Bologna. The plant, now operational, will guarantee the …

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Nexfeld has appointed NextStop as sales partner for its planning and scheduling software solutions across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The partnership assigns NextStop, led by mobility expert Udo Steinmeier, the role of commercial representative for Nexfeld solutions in the DACH mobility market…

Trapeze announces it has rebranded its European businesses, launching four dedicated public transport technology brands as of 16 February 2026. The move restructures Trapeze’s activities in Intermodal Transport Control Systems, fixed route planning and scheduling, bus driver allocation and public tr…

The European Investment Bank has agreed to provide €24 million venture financing to Twaice to support the scale-up of its predictive battery analytics business, according to a Twaice press release issued on 5 February. The Twaice EIB financing is aimed at accelerating growth as electrification drive…

The Mobility House North America has unveiled Cascade EV Aggregator, a vehicle-grid integration platform designed to aggregate electric vehicle charging and discharging assets into coordinated energy resources for utilities. Cascade EV Aggregator is presented as a utility-facing platform capable of …

Helsinki’s public transport authority HSL has commissioned INIT to supply a container-based on-board computer system for its multimodal public transport fleet in Finnish capital region. The Helsinki Regional Transport Authority will deploy a new on-board system supplied by INIT across approxim…

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MAN Truck & Bus announces it has completed winter validation tests of its battery-electric Lion’s Coach E in northern Sweden and eastern Turkey, exposing the vehicle to temperatures as low as −30°C. The tests aimed to verify the reliability and performance of the vehicle’s electric drivetrain, h…

Volvo Buses announces it has secured orders for 15 Volvo BZR Electric – CD coaches, belonging to the latest platform announced last year, from six operators in Norway. The contracts mark the first Norwegian orders for Volvo Buses’ latest long-range electric coach platform based on the Volvo BZR Elec…

CharterUP has launched an electric coach program in Southern California, introducing battery-electric buses into large-scale private charter operations across the region. The program entered service in fall 2025 and operates across multiple high-demand markets, including Anaheim, Irvine, Long Beach,…

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The city of Riga, capital of Latvia, is preparing to take another significant step in the long-term modernization of its trolleybus system. The city’s public transport operator, Rīgas Satiksme, has launched the preparatory phase for the procurement of up to 100 battery-equipped trolleybuses as part …

The first of 107 Trollino 12 battery-powered trolleybuses ordered from Polish manufacturer Solaris has left the production plant and is about to be tested by the Gdynia transport company before being transferred to Vancouver. The 107 vehicles definitively ordered in 2025 are expected to be delivered…

After an absence of 12 years, the trolleybus has returned to the Swiss town of La Chaux-de-Fonds, the watchmaking capital located in the canton of Neuchâtel. On 20 February 2026, the new service was inaugurated in the presence of Cédric Aubry, CEO of TransN (TN)—the operator of the Neuchâtel and La …

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BUS2BUS 2026 is set to bring together transport, technology and industry stakeholders in Berlin on 15–16 April, with a program centred on artificial intelligence, automation and sustainable mobility. The event, held at the Berlin Exhibition Grounds, will feature more than 100 sessions across four st…

Mobility Move 2026 opens today in Berlin with 1,600 participants and 110 exhibitors, marking the largest edition of the event dedicated to road-based public transport. The 16th edition of Mobility Move (until 2022 known as Elekbu) takes place from 10 to 12 March 2026 in Berlin, bringing together pub…

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