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Tyrolean bus company Ledermair, in Austria, ordered 27 MAN Lion’s City E buses, including 19 solo buses with a length of twelve meters and eight articulated buses with a length of 18 meters for use in Innsbruck region. The first two vehicles are due to be delivered in September 2025 and the re...

Arriva announces electrification of its third London bus depot. The operator’s Thornton Heath site in south London will run 109 zero-emission vehicles from spring 2025 following the successful installation of a new electricity substation and advanced charging facilities. Thornton Heath is the third ...

Ebusco is willing to establish a strategic partnership with Chinese battery manufacturer Gotion. Within the partnership, Gotion is considering “an equity participation in Ebusco“, the bus OEM shares in a press note released today, 8th November 2024. However, the deal is presented as a &#...

Coventry City Council’s target to be the UK’s first all-electric bus fleet by 2025 has received a boost as another 64 buses are being rolled out across the city by Stagecoach. This means that more than 200 buses, 80% of all those operating within and travelling into the city, will now be electric ba...

The Polish city of Szczecin has ordered 14 electric buses from Solaris. The order includes the Urbino electric model in two lengths: four 12-meter Urbino 12 electric buses and ten articulated Urbino 18 electric buses. In recent years, the city has purchas...

Transport UK London Bus (former Abellio) introduced a fleet of 29 electric double-decker buses to one of their busiest routes in London, route 63. The operator developed its Walworth depot in London to incorporate fully electric routes with power infrastructure, maintenance and charging facilities. ...

The most likely direct cause of the fires involving RATP e-buses (by BlueBus) that went on fire in 2022 in Paris “is an intercell short-circuit caused by thermal runaway in the high-voltage batteries that power these all-electric vehicles”, reads the report of the technical investigation...

First Bus is entering a 5-years partnership with FlixBus, the two companies announces today. The deal will bring eight new or expanded FlixBus coach routes across the UK next year. FlixBus has already carried over five million passengers since its launch in the UK in 2021. And now it is set to doubl...

A new issue of Sustainable Bus Magazine – fourth and latest for 2024 – is here! This edition dives (again) into pivotal updates across the zero-emission landscape, with a special focus on Europe’s public transport transformation. Cover story? Test driving the Yutong U18. Highlights? Deve...

Ballard Power Systems announced a purchase order to supply 200 fuel cell engines to New Flyer, a subsidiary of NFI Group. In late October 2024, the Government of Canada is investing $15 million in supporting the manufacturing of New Flyer electric and hydrogen fuel-cell transit buses in Canada, with...