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In the largest e-bus tender in the company’s history to date, Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein GmbH (VHH) has awarded MAN Truck & Bus and Daimler Buses two framework agreements for 100 and 250 e-buses respectively. This will more than quadruple VHH’s total e-bus fleet. The first new...

Mellor has delivered the first two Sigma 8s to a Scottish bus operator, Shuttle Buses. The buses represent a significant milestone for Mellor; not only being the first Sigma in Scotland (the new electric bus family was launched in late 2021), but also the first customer examples of the electric midi...

VHH is ordering up to to 100 electric buses from MAN Truck & Bus for operations in Hamburg. With the framework agreement for the delivery of the Lion’s City 12 E, MAN was able to win four of eight lots in VHH’s current e-bus tender, the manufacturer states. VHH orders up to 100 e-bus...

While being very much a minority of the market (99 units registered in Europe in 2022), sales of fuel cell buses in Europe are in a way a similar story to those of battery-electric buses: much lower than the sales levels in China, but well ahead of most other regions. Hydrogen buses are attractive t...

Brice Bonavia has become the new General Manager of Solaris France – a daughter company representing Solaris Bus & Coach in France. Just yesterday the group disclosed its 2022 results: in a nutshell, 1,492 buses sold (401 are battery-electric vehicles), revenues at € 696 million (with 3% decreas...

Karsan has appointed Javier Calvarro as sales director for Spain and Andorra. The aim of this new appointment is to boost the company’s growth and consolidation in Europe. In his more than 20 years of experience in the commercial vehicle sector, Javier Calvarro has worked for different compani...

One year and an half after its launch, the latest generation 6-metre bus developed by Bluebus is now joining the UGAP catalogue, the French public purchasing station. Up to now, 42 units of the new generation vehicle were marketed, 15 of those area already in circulation in France. Bluebus 6-meter e...

Traktionssysteme Austria (TSA) has been awarded the Lean Management Award for 2021/22 by StEP-Up, Austria’s leading platform for sustainably increasing the competitiveness of manufacturing companies. This award recognizes TSA as a leading enterprise in Lean Management, following their outstand...

1,492 buses sold (401 are battery-electric vehicles), revenues at € 696 million (with 3% decrease compared to the 721 million generated in 2021), deliveries in 18 countries. These are, in a nutshell, Solaris 2022 results, disclosed this morning during a press conference. During the digital event, So...

Up to 40% of the people surveyed would use public transport more often if the range of tickets were much clearer, according to a PwC Deutschland study. To this extent, the German company has developed the “EasyFlex” fare, announced and presented today with a press note. EasyFlex fare by ...