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Rock Rail, the UK Infrastructure Bank and Aviva, through its in-house capital unit Aviva Capital Partners, announce they have formed a partnership to provide a new funding platform for zero emission bus financier ‘Rock Road’. The partnership, alongside a debt facility from UK Infrastructure Bank and...

Bus manufacturer Van Hool has been declared bankrupt. The information has been stated by the manufacturer itself this morning, 8th April, and the topic got high attention on local media, in particular from De Standaard. The company is set to be taken over by Dutch VDL and German Schmitz Cargobull, b...

The first new electric buses from First Bus South, operator of First Bus Solent, have entered service in Portsmouth, Fareham and Gosport. They are the first of 62 buses which will be rolled over the coming weeks for passengers on a series of routes. Funding was secured by the Department for Transpor...

For the VDL Group, 2023 was a two-sided year. In hot days that saw the Dutch giant get its hands – along with Schmitz Cargobull – on Van Hool, the press note containing the financial results achieved during the past year was released. VDL Groep president and CEO Willem van der Leegte sai...

US bus drivers have initiated a revolt to secure protections amidst the increasing projects about deployment of self-driving vehicles nationwide. The drivers’ union, Transport Workers Union (TWU), has reached an agreement with the Ohio transportation authority (COTA), granting it veto power ov...

“Only VDL-Schmitz still in the running for Van Hool, Dumarey no longer involved“. It’s the headline of the article published today, 5th April, by Flemish newspaper De Tijd, with significants updates about the future of Van Hool. The other takeover candidate, Dumarey, has thrown in ...

New commercial vehicles’ battery launched by CATL in cooperation with bus maker Yutong. The main feature of the new product is the long lifespan, as the partners claim “a lifespan of up to 15 years and 1.5 million kilometers”, as reported on Elektrek. That adds: “According to...

Karsan, following its November 2023 signing with Norway’s group Vy, one of the largest public transport authorities in Scandinavia to supply autonomous vehicles, has delivered the first Autonomous e-Atak (8-meter-long driverless electric, developed together with Adastec) to the city of Tampere...

Energy giant Copec invests in Optibus to accelerate bus electrification and smart charging in Latin America. A strategic partnership between Copec WIND Ventures, Copec’s strategic venture capital arm, with Optibus has been made official: together they will explore synergies related to bus depo...

A new inverted pantograph electric charging station has been inaugurated at the Carabanchel operations centre of EMT Madrid. Now the depot has been enhanced with further 118 electric bus’ chargers, enabling a total of 260 vehicles to be charged simultaneously. With the fourth phase of charging...