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The first of the new generation of trams, ordered in April 2021 by Carris, is ready and about to be delivered to Lisbon. Carris is the operator of the public transport network in Lisbon, Portugal’s capital city of 545,000 inhabitants, has decided to renew its tram fleet, choosing the five-modu...

Regiobus has ordered 15 battery-electric buses, thus beginning the transition of the fleet towards zero emission technology. The operator has turned to EvoBus and is then going to deploy 15 units of Mercedes eCitaro. Since 2020, regiobus has exclusively procured so-called mild hybrid buses; in paral...

Below, a contribution by Antonio Augusto Fernandes, Professor Emeritus, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering (aaf@fe.up.pt)Picture caption: Feup eCoach interior design (Registered as a Community Design, with the Nº 008640346-0001, at the European Union Intellectual Property Office ) The deman...

Below, a contribution from ZEBRA (Zero Emission Bus Rapid-deployment Accelerator), a partnership led by C40 Cities and the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), with funding from ClimateWorks. This international alliance works to support the deployment of over 3,000 electric buses on...

Solaris will deliver 100 Urbino 12 hybrid buses to Cagliari, the Sardinian capital. The contract is part of a framework agreement signed in 2021 with joint-stock company Consip owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF). Under that agreeme...

VDV pushes for a much stronger commitment of the federal government to the promotion of e-buses in order to achieve climate-protection goals. “We must make the remaining years until 2030 the decade of the e-bus, because the infrastructure projects for railways and light rail only take effect w...

The British government has announced a £25.3 million investment to rollout an extra 117 zero emission buses in four regions across the country – Yorkshire, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Hampshire. They’ll be manufactured in Northern Ireland by Wrightbus and operated by First Bus. The latter ha...

The first of the Combino trams has returned to Poznan after a general overhaul, which involved refurbishing and modernising the vehicle. Poznan, with a population of 535,000, located in the west of Poland, is the fifth largest city in the country, and has an extensive and important tram network that...

Competition on the e-bus market pushes Daimler Buses to cut costs. Body shells production goes in Czech Republic, e-buses stays in Mannheim and coaches (plus intercity e-vehicles still to come) in Neu-Ulm. Agreement just reached between the Management of Daimler Buses and the General Works Council o...

A hydrogen-powered double-decker bus where cars can be loaded onto the roof and travel in a fully comfortable environment, similar to that of a business class train. This is the project, undoubtedly unconventional, of a French start-up based in Dijon, called Symone. For now, the idea is only illustr...