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This is not exactly a bolt out of the blue, as some rumors had been circulating for a few months, and today the news came: the Spanish coachbuilder Sunsundegui has initiated pre-bankruptcy proceedings. Also weighing on the crisis was Volvo’s halt to the production of the 9700 and 9900 range, w...

The global leader battery supplier CATL chose IAA Transportation 2024 in Hannover to launch the Tectrans battery system. CATL aspires to reach net zero in battery manufacturing operations by 2025 and across the battery supply chain by 2035. These milestones will help reduce more than 40% of emission...

Habas officially entered the bus world at Busworld 2023 in Brussels. Habas’ bus division is the latest challenge from a Turkish group with a capital “g,” as it has an 80 percent market share in the gas market in the motherland, operating in disparate sectors: iron, steel, shipyards, ports, and...

After debuting in the UK in 2021, Scania and Higer have decided to bring the Fencer to continental Europe as well. We picked up the news at IAA Transportation in Hannover, where the bus model was not physically present at the show. The news is the decision to market the range in Germany and Austria,...

If a bus enthusiast from Mars had landed on Earth on September 17, the opening day of IAA Transportation 2024, and made his (or her) way straight to the halls of the Hannover Messe to get a sense of the bus industry in Europe, he would have encountered a picture vastly different from the reality [&h...

In Hanover the 2024 edition of the IAA Transportation there are few-very few bus manufacturers (BlueBus, Daimler, Habas, Higer, King Long, Scania, SinoTruck, Wisdom Motor), among which the Chinese Oems stand out above all. Among them, perhaps most of all, King Long. Here, the Chinese manufacturer su...