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First Bus becomes first UK Bus operator to place order with NewPower, a new enterprise owned by bus manufacturer Wrightbus that coverts diesel buses into zero emission vehicles. An initial order of 32 buses has been placed that will serve four regions. The new company has the goal of converting more...

By end of 2024 the first electric buses in Paraguay’s history will be in operation. They’ll be deployed on Asunción’s public network. What is interesting, they won’t be a Chinese import but they’ll be built by Taiwanese company Master Transportation. Master Transportati...

Hyundai announced the launch of its first electric bus for the Japanese market, the Elec City Town. It’ll be marketed through authorized dealers by the end of 2024. This move marks Hyundai’s expansion of its electric vehicle lineup tailored to meet the demands of Japanese bus operators. ...

Golden Arrow Bus Services, operating in Cape Town (South Africa) announces it has signed a deal with BYD for the purchase of 120 electric buses. It comes after a 4-years time of testing. Deliveries are scheduled to start late in 2024, with all the buses expected to be operational before December 202...

A bus industry consortium led by Zenobē is to deploy 252 electric buses (and coaches!) in Scotland within the Scottish Government’s Zero Emission Bus Challenge Fund (ScotZEB 2). Phase 2 of ScotZEB differed from Phase 1 (launched in 2021) in that applicants had to cooperatively pitch as part of a con...

Ebusco has received a fixed order of 25 Ebusco 2.2 buses via the Deutsche Bahn framework agreement. They’ll go to Speyer, south of Mannheim. With this order, the buses ordered through the framework agreement total to 140 Ebusco buses. The framework agreement between Ebusco and Deutsche Bahn wa...

14 further Yutong single deck electric vehicles will be supplied by Pelican in Nottingham, thanks to a successful Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas bid. NCT currently have 24 fully electric Yutong single-decker buses are on the road. The operator recently celebrated 250,000 zero-emission kilometres. ...

Forsee Power announces it has achieved sales for €84.4 million in the first half of 2024, up +7% from H1 2023 (but Q2 showed a significant decrease: -23%). The battery suppliers highlights that “in the heavy vehicles segment, the Group more than offset the drop in Iveco orders”, as the c...

Indian bus maker startup Urban Sphere, based in Bangalore, is targeting the e-bus market with an offer made of BEV vehicles from 6 to 9 meter long. The company says having "prototypes ready for approval" and most of the production is carried on in India. South-east Asia and Africa are among the main...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the signing of a $12.6 billion agreement, including up to $1.2 billion from the DOE and $11.4 billion in public and private matching funds, to accelerate clean hydrogen projects throughout California. Within the plan, an initiative aiming to deploy o...