Electric Bus

Volvo Buses announces it has secured its first electric vehicle order from Go Ahead, the largest operator of bus services in London. The company will add 25 Volvo BZL Electric single deck buses to its fleet later this year. Measuring 9.7m in length, manufactured at Volvo Buses’ chassis plant in Borå...

Indian city of Indore will receive 150 air-conditioned electric buses as part of the PM E-Bus Sewa Scheme, the highest allocation among participating cities, is reported on The Times of India. Local manufacturer JBM announced in mid-February it has secured an order for 1,021 electric buses under the...

Norwegian bus company Vy Buss has ordered a batch of 3 Solaris Urbino 9 LE electric buses. The vehicles will operate on routes in Slemmestad, a suburban area of Oslo. This marks the debut of Solaris’ 9-meter battery-electric bus, launched in late 2021, in the Nordic markets. Deliveries are scheduled...

JBM announces it has secured an order for 1,021 electric buses under the Government of India’s PM e-Bus Sewa Scheme-2 initiative. The total order is valued at approximately Rs 5,500 crore (some approximately €605,766,000) and the buses will be deployed in the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Harya...

In 2024, the electric city bus market in Europe (including the UK) grew 22% on 2023, reaching the figure of 7,779 electric bus registrations (over 8 ton). The contribution of UK market to the overall picture is a major one: while the e-bus market in EU27 saw Daimler Buses and Iveco Bus (the stronges...

Before the pandemic, the Chinese group’s subsidiary Alfabus Europe had nested in Italy and tried to position itself in the Italian market, with a couple of units placed in Cremona and a market offensive slowed down by the pandemic. But the company did not stop. Today Alfabus Europa is still ba...