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Otokar will be present at FIAA (where the Sustainable Bus Awards 2025 will be awarded) through its official distributor for Spain, Somauto, exhibiting as many as five units. What is particularly worth noting, the Turkish brand will display from 22 to 25th October its electric intercity bus E-Territo...

In addition to 157 VDL Citea new generation (whose order was announced a few days ago), also 30 Solaris electric buses will join Arriva‘s fleet in the West Brabant concession (Netherlands). 26 Urbino 12 electric and 4 articulated Urbino 18 electric will serve traffic in the region st...

From 1 November 2024, the Executive Board of IVU Traffic Technologies will see Leon Struijk taking over the technical and operational department as COO, managing IVU together with the CEO and CFO Martin Müller-Elschner. Matthias Rust, in IVU since 1993 and member of the Executive Board since 2016, i...

353 new electric buses were registered in Germany in the first half of the year, surpassing the 297 registered in the same period in 2023. Growth rate? +19 percent. These figures are reported by German trade media omnibus.news and are based on statistics by KBA. This increase has yet to reflect the ...

Wrightbus announces it has signed a landmark deal worth up to half-a-billion pounds to supply more than 1,000 buses to operators Go-Ahead over the next three years. And because more than 90% of the order will be zero-emission, it also represents a huge boost to the UK’s net zero goals and the Govern...

JBM Group is set to launch its new electric city bus with European homologation in March-April next year, starting with Germany. Plus, updated electric coach is coming at Busworld in 2025. At the European Mobility Expo, Daniel Fräde, Director of Sales, Marketing & After Sales Europe at JBM Group...

Grayson Thermal Systems has announced the appointment of Brendan Waldron as its new technical director. Waldron brings more than 20 years of engineering experience to Grayson after a career in Rolls-Royce. During his tenure, Waldron spearheaded several high-profile projects, including the engineerin...

The second session of the Sustainable Bus Tour 2024 took place on October 2nd in Strasbourg, during the European Mobility Expo show (former Transport Publics). Entitled “On the way to a fully zero emission city bus market in 2035? Technology | business case | market uptake“, the conference delved in...

Arriva has placed an order for 157 electric buses from VDL Bus & Coach, destined for the new West Brabant concession, which will enter into operation on 6 July 2025. The operator has been awarded the concession in early 2024. A new bus fleet of more than 200 zero-emission vehicles&nbsp...

The international Bus of the Year jury has awarded the title of Bus of the Year 2025 to the Solaris Urbino 18 hydrogen. This marks the second title for a Solaris vehicle and the first time in the competition’s history, which has been held since 1989, that a zero-emission hydrogen-powered vehicle has...