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Pilot operation of an automated MAN bus is planned from 2025 onwards within the just-announced MINGA project, that see the manufacturer cooperating with the City of Munich, the Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG), the Münchner VerkehrsVerbund (MVV) as well as companies and research institutes. Auton...

183 articulated Solaris Urbino 18.75 electric buses were added to Oslo’s bus fleet on 16th April 2023. Thus, Solaris has completed its largest single order for electric buses so far. The value of the contract, signed in January 2022, is approximately...

Imagine seeing a fair representation of the European electric bus market on the road, all together. This is what since a few years (the first edition was in 2017 – the opening picture comes from 2019’s edition) the German specialized magazine Omnibusspiegel is doing with the organization...

Quantron has won in Italy its largest e-bus tender so far. Six Cizaris 12 EV are set to be in operation from October 2023 in Turin under the livery of GTT. They’ll be deployed by the carrier Miccolis, who has been awarded a batch of GTT lines (one of the others awarded carriers is Autoguidovie...

The big day has arrived. Today, Tuesday 18 April, Iveco Bus is inaugurating the new Foggia plant, in south Italy. Here, in fact, the new lines for the final assembly of high-tech, zero-emission (BEV and FCEV) and low-emission (methane/biomethane and latest-generation diesel/biodiesel) buses will be ...

European Commission has proposed the revised version of CO2 regulation for heavy-duty vehicles in February (which requires all new city buses to be zero emission starting in 2030). And this goes along with other well known measures: the Clean Vehicles Directive is in place since 2021, with quot...

QBuzz and OV-bureau Groningen Drenthe local public transportation companies have decided to purchase 35 Mercedes eCitaro G articulated buses with fully electric drive. The 18.13-meter, low-floor electric buses will be used both in urban traffic on the Qlink routes and in regional traffic in the Dutc...

Michael Roth, Head of Product Strategy Bus at MAN Truck & Bus, recently spoke about the future of autonomous buses and the challenges of implementing the technology at the VDV Conference and ElekBu exhibition in Berlin. Roth talked about MAN’s ongoing project to develop a standard size aut...

In 2023 Iveco Bus is going to supply over 1,000 new buses through Consip. The Italian central purchasing body has awarded late last year the tender for as many as 1,000 e-buses, with Iveco Bus bidding in six lots out of seven. The E-Way electric buses and the Crossways destined for TUA (Abruzzo) wil...

Below, a contribution by Stefan Schuberth, Sales Manager Automotive Business Line, Advanced Materials, Outokumpu, Krefeld, Germany; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klemens Rother, University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany; Dr. Werner Pohl, FCMS GmbH, Munich, Germany. Stainless steel manufacturer Outokumpu has ...