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Iveco Bus is set to produce e-buses also in its main French plant of Annonay, in addition to the Heuliez Bus facility in Rorthais that has been so far the ‘hub’ for e-bus manufacturing within the Iveco Group. The manufacturer also has an ongoing investment plan of 600 million euros in th...

Spanish minibus specialist Indcar has added three new sales representatives to consolidate its presence in Italy and France, and opening new markets in other European countries. Export represents today around 85% of the company’s turnover. Three new professionals have joined Indcar’s sal...

The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TGSRTC) has launched 35 luxury electric buses by JBM on the Karimnagar-Hyderabad (Jubilee Bus Station) route, around 160km long. TGSRTC states it has plans to roll out an additional 500 electric buses across the state. JBM introduced two vehicles on th...

Otokar will be present at FIAA (where the Sustainable Bus Awards 2025 will be awarded) through its official distributor for Spain, Somauto, exhibiting as many as five units. What is particularly worth noting, the Turkish brand will display from 22 to 25th October its electric intercity bus E-Territo...

In addition to 157 VDL Citea new generation (whose order was announced a few days ago), also 30 Solaris electric buses will join Arriva‘s fleet in the West Brabant concession (Netherlands). 26 Urbino 12 electric and 4 articulated Urbino 18 electric will serve traffic in the region st...

From 1 November 2024, the Executive Board of IVU Traffic Technologies will see Leon Struijk taking over the technical and operational department as COO, managing IVU together with the CEO and CFO Martin Müller-Elschner. Matthias Rust, in IVU since 1993 and member of the Executive Board since 2016, i...

353 new electric buses were registered in Germany in the first half of the year, surpassing the 297 registered in the same period in 2023. Growth rate? +19 percent. These figures are reported by German trade media omnibus.news and are based on statistics by KBA. This increase has yet to reflect the ...

Wrightbus announces it has signed a landmark deal worth up to half-a-billion pounds to supply more than 1,000 buses to operators Go-Ahead over the next three years. And because more than 90% of the order will be zero-emission, it also represents a huge boost to the UK’s net zero goals and the Govern...

JBM Group is set to launch its new electric city bus with European homologation in March-April next year, starting with Germany. Plus, updated electric coach is coming at Busworld in 2025. At the European Mobility Expo, Daniel Fräde, Director of Sales, Marketing & After Sales Europe at JBM Group...

Grayson Thermal Systems has announced the appointment of Brendan Waldron as its new technical director. Waldron brings more than 20 years of engineering experience to Grayson after a career in Rolls-Royce. During his tenure, Waldron spearheaded several high-profile projects, including the engineerin...