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After launching a complete, 6- to 18-metre, fully electrified range and also launching its first hydrogen-powered bus (as well as a self-driving bus), taking home the Sustainable Bus Award 2023 with the e-Ata 12 in the Urban category, Karsan also won the Global Business Excellence Awards. With its &...

The Lion Electric Company announced that it has produced its first zero-emission LionC at its US plant in Joliet, illinois.«Today is a significant milestone for Lion. On behalf of the entire management team, I would like to express my appreciation to all of our employees for their passion and commit...

Beside the order for 31 Mercedes eCitaro announced in early November, Danish operator Vikingbus has also landed an order for 45 MAN Lion’s City 12 E. They’ll be deployed on routes in Greater Copenhagen. Deliveries are set to happen from spring 2023. Movia’s 21st tender for bus rout...

New Flyer has been named partner of choice by a total of 38 transit agencies across the United States for its successful project awards from the Federal Transit Administration’s 2022 Low or No Emission and Buses and Bus Facilities Grant Programs. In September 2022 New Flyer unveiled its next ge...

Translink has rolled out a national account-based ticketing (ABT) system covering Northern Ireland. Passengers using the Translink Metro bus network in Belfast are benefiting from contactless payment technology as part of the operator’s Future Ticketing System, which has been developed in partnershi...

ATM Milano has awarded a €368m framework agreement for the manufacturing of 46 new metro trains for the Milan metro, to Hitachi Rail. The award is part of ATM’s massive investment plan to deliver an increasingly sustainable and technologically advanced public transport system (part of this project i...

Benteler is establishing a new brand identity under the name of Holon. The Benteler EV Systems business unit, which was spun off at the end of 2021, will change its name consequently. As Holon, the company will in future focus on the business with fully electric, autonomous movers. At CES 2023 in La...

Spanish doors and ramps supplier Masats hosted the Quo Vadis CBM workshop on 20 October organised by IN-MOVE by Railgrup and the members of the #CBM Working Group, of which Masats is a member. The workshop allowed to share efforts and to know the vision of operators, constructors and components indu...

Shell Deutschland has signed an agreement with Schaltbau Holding AG to buy 100% stake in SBRS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Schaltbau Holding AG (a provider of charging infrastructure solutions for commercial electric vehicles, including e-buses, e-trucks and e-vans). The transaction is expected to ...

Transit Systems has celebrated three years of running Australia’s largest battery electric bus network and depot, with over 2 million customers in New South Wales stepping on board. In Sydney, battery electric buses operated by Transit Systems are in service across the Inner West routes and school s...