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Irizar e-mobility has signed a new contract with Orléans Métropole to supply seven 12-meter, 100% electric, zero-emission Irizar ie tram. With this new order, the French metropolis once again relies on Irizar e-mobility to renew its bus fleet. The first units are scheduled to be delivered by the end...

Nova Bus is going to stop bus production in the US market and will focus only on the Canadian market. Its Plattsburgh manufacturing and delivery facility will end operations by 2025. Production in North America will then be focused to Nova Bus’ Canadian facilities located in Saint-Eustache and...

EvoBus becomes Daimler Buses. Announced today, the change will be effective as of 12 July 2023. Affiliated European national subsidiaries will also be renamed accordingly. The denomination “EvoBus” will then disappear. EvoBus service centres, previously known as “BusWorld Home”, will be ...

Ebusco expands in Sweden with up to 125 12-meter buses (50 ordered, 75 on option) in Stockholm Delivery of the first 50 buses (model Ebusco 3.0) is scheduled for 2024 and the 75 buses are under option for delivery in 2025. Keolis Sverige has won the E42 tender in and around Stockholm (Bromma, Solna,...

Autonomous driving? Anadolu Isuzu is on it, too. Yes, because the Turkish manufacturer transformed the 8-meter all-electric NovoCiti Volt into a driverless vehicle platform, successfully passing all tests. And so solutions developed with open-source technologies make the next-generation medium-sized...

The Hague’s operator HTM will deploy 95 Mercedes-Benz eCitaro buses and associated charging infrastructure, as announced in a press note by the carrier. It’s one of the largest e-bus contract received so far by Daimler Buses. The order is provisionally awarded, and it will become final o...

Below, an article published on May 2023 issue of Sustainable Bus magazine.By James Nix, Director, Freight and Climate, Transport & Environment Cities are increasingly buying electric buses. Almost one in three newly-registered urban buses in 2022 was zero emission. That’s a doubling of the ...

First Bus has become the first bus operator in the UK to offer a consumer charging hub, aiming to assist the local community in transitioning to electric vehicles. This innovative initiative will be housed in a purpose-built facility in Cornwall, set to be operational later this summer. The hub will...

GVB, the local public transport operator in Amsterdam has chosen The Mobility House to meet its charging management needs for its 159 electric buses. Specifically, the Dutch entity relied on the ChargePilot solution and so by the end of the year the 159 e-buses, will be recharged at the190 continuou...

Earlier this month, Switch Mobility has delivered the first set of Metrocity buses to Stagecoach, a prominent bus and coach operator in the UK. This delivery is part of an order for 20 buses placed by Stagecoach, consisting of two variants of the Switch Metrocity: the 8.7-meter model for Walthamstow...