Electric Bus

Romanian capital city Bucharest has secured €87.44 million in non-repayable funding from the Modernisation Fund for the procurement of 40 battery-electric buses, 45 trolleybuses and 10 trams, as part of a new fleet renewal programme for municipal public transport operator STB. The investment has bee...

Turkish manufacturer AKIA announces that it has won an IETT tender to supply 50 battery-electric buses to Istanbul, with production and deliveries scheduled to begin in 2027. The Turkish manufacturer states that the contract represents the country’s first large-scale electric bus fleet procurement. ...

Consorzio Autoservizi Lombardi, the consortium formed by Italian bus operators AIR Pullman and STAV, has launched a €113.84 million tender for 201 battery-electric buses. The procurement is divided into three lots covering different vehicle classes and configurations, from standard-length urban buse...

Solaris has revealed in the last few weeks some glimpses of its US-headed Urbino 40 electric ahead of the North American model’s world premiere at APTA TRANSform & EXPO in Chicago on October 5 at 3 p.m. New images released by Solaris show the exterior and passenger compartment of the 40-foot bat...

JBM Auto registered 892 electric buses in India between April and September 2026, accounting for approximately 24% of the market during the first half of the country’s FY2026-27. The figures, released by JBM Auto based on data from India’s Vahan portal, refer to H1 FY2026-27. In India, the financial...

GöVB has awarded the planning contract for a new €60 million electric bus depot in Göttingen designed for at least 100 electric buses and scheduled to enter operation by the end of 2031. Göttinger Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH (GöVB) has completed the European-wide, two-stage negotiated procurement procedur...