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The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Valencia’s Empresa Municipal de Transportes (EMT) have signed a €69 million loan to help expand the city’s fleet of zero-emissions electric buses. The project includes the purchase of 145 new electric buses to replace older vehicles nearing the end of their use...

Mercedes eCitaro. Behind this name lies the first battery-electric bus ever developed by the Daimler Group, built on the basis of the best-seller urban bus range launched in 1997. The Citaro was the first city bus in the world to meet the Euro VI emissions standard in 2012. In November 2019 Daimler ...

A fire broke out on Thursday, January 2, at the Optymo bus depot in Danjoutin, Territoire de Belfort (west of France) destroying seven hydrogen-powered buses. Firefighters contained the fire after several hours, and the risk of explosions has been ruled out. No injuries were reported, but nearby res...

Yutong aims at a worldwide expansion together with the increasing electric bus deployment outside China. Europe and Latin America are already in the spotlight, with batches of vehicles running in Scandinavia (mainly in Bergen, Norway) and France and a large e-bus fleet delivered by the Zhengzhou-bas...

Ebusco has announced today, 31st December 2024, plans to reduce its workforce by 16.5%, affecting 102 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions. The decision is part of the company’s ongoing restructuring efforts under its Turnaround Plan, which includes a shift to the Original Equipment Designer (OED) m...

Turkish manufacturer Akia announces it has completed delivery of 85 city buses in Belgrade, Serbia. The vehicles belong to model Ultra LF12. In September 2024 the same company had completed delivery of 132 metrobuses for Istanbul’s BRT. Akia city buses for Belgrade As the manufacturer underlines, th...

by Jean-Philippe Pastre The main French daily newspaper Le Monde has revealed on Friday 27th December a vast scam on public money. The authors, Arthur Carpentier and Maxime Vaudano, estimate that 12 million Euros were allegedly diverted during 3 months. This is the misappropriation of funding for th...

Solaris has been awarded its first contract in the US market: 4 electric buses will be supplied to King County Metro, the main public transport authority in Seattle (Washington State) with a fleet of more than 1,500 buses. Specifically, this agreement includes the delivery of two 40-foot (12 m) elec...

The Tap&Go project by Kentkart marks a milestone in the Philippines, where commuters can now use EMV-enabled Mastercard cards on public transportation for the first time in history. This innovative initiative, launched on BGC buses in Taguig City, is the result of a collaboration between AF Paym...

Despite some adversity (political instability in France, the bankruptcy of Van Hool) Autocar Expo 2024, held from 3 to 6 December in Lyon, closed the doors on a positive trend in terms of visitors and sales. But even these order books were hiding a dark reality.