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Scania has announced on the 30th of May 2023 a significant change in its business model and industrial strategy in Europe. It’ll cease body production for Scania bus chassis in Poland and will continue offering complete buses and coaches thanks to partnerships with bodybuilders. Production of ...

The Go-Ahead Group has been awarded a 15-year contract worth £110 million by Kent County Council to operate Kent’s Fastrack bus rapid transit system. Go-Ahead London division will operate the service from November 2024. Existing buses will replaced with a zero emission fleet on the network, which ru...

Rheinbahn has ordered 20 battery-electric buses from VDL. Delivery of the first vehicles is scheduled for mid-2024. The investment volume is around 18.5 million euros. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia has approved around 7.5 million euros in funding for this through the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr...

Yutong is going to market a zero-emission double-decker buses for UK market. Named U11DD, it’ll be distributed by Pelican. Two demonstrators will be available in UK from September to November. The Yutong U11DD “is a fully integral vehicle, and optimised for low total cost of ownership. T...

Sasa Bolzano was the first transport operator in Italy to focus heavily on hydrogen to embrace the decarbonization challenge. And Bolzano is home to Eurac Research’s Renewable Energy Institute, which recently published in the World Electric Vehicle Journal a study on the possibility of electri...

IVU Traffic Technologies has chosen to focus strongly on Italy and has thus strengthened its position in the tricolor market. How? First of all by inaugurating its new offices in the heart of Rome. From Milan and Rome to Sicily and Sardinia, transportation companies throughout Italy rely on IVU.suit...

First Bus is one of the top five bus companies in the United Kingdom, with operations from Aberdeen in the very north of Scotland down to Cornwall, thanks to about 4,500 buses and 14,000 employees. We interviewed the managing director Janette Bell.

A new look, a new logo for BorgWarner “future-focused and dynamic,” according to the definition provided by the U.S. group itself. The logo has changed for the first time in more than 30 years. BorgWarner: the new logo represents the Charging Forward strategy Taking a small step back in ...

By 2026, Seoul wants to replace 1,300 internal combustion buses with new fuel cell buses. To achieve this, South Korea’s capital has turned to local Hyundai Motor, which will handle the major order. Starting in 2020, Hyundai Motor is a hydrogen bus supplier for Seoul. Specifically, of the 1,30...

Wrightbus has been awarded £50 million to boost exports of electric and hydrogen-powered buses (destination: Europe, Germany in particular, and North America) supported by a loan guarantee from the UK’s export credit agency. The manufacturer plans to double its workforce in the next three years, cre...