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FirstGroup takes over Essex-based Ensign Bus Company Limited. The acquisition of the company is anticipated to be completed over the next few months subject to customary regulatory review. The acquisition of the Ensignbus business is set to both enhance FirstGroup’s existing local commercial bus ope...

EMT Madrid has launched a new BRT line, operated via electric buses, that will connect the Valdebebas and Sanchinarro districts with the Ramón y Cajal Hospital via a segregated lane and, for the first time, with traffic light priority. The BRT line will allow a 30-minute connection between the two e...

Wolfspeed, a leading company in Silicon Carbide technology, has joined forces with ZF in a strategic partnership that involves the creation of a joint innovation lab to develop Silicon Carbide systems and devices for mobility, energy, and industrial applications. Silicon carbide technology is approa...

Today 17 per cent of ALSA buses run on alternative fuel, as explained by Miguel Angel Alonso, ALSA’s Director of Engineering and European Funds, in a story published on IRU website. The goal of the Spain-based company, with operations in Morocco, Portugal, Switzerland, and France, is to operat...

The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) is partnering with the city of Calgary, that will receive $165 million investment aimed at procuring 259 zero-emission buses by 2027. They’ll be operated by municipal operator Calgary Transit. The city has set the goal to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050....

Nuremberg electric bus fleet grows. 46 more e-buses will be added this year. They will all be Mercedes eCitaro. In order to provide the buses with sufficient space and charging capacity, the depot at the Schweinau site is being expanded. The depot is at the moment equipped with Siemens-made charging...

Another success for the Lion. In fact, the Munich-based manufacturer has won another award, after taking home “Bus of the Year 2023” with the MAN Lion’s City 12 E. That’s right, because the MAN Lion’s City 10 E was voted “Bus of the Year in Spain” at the Nat...

An Ourense first: the Iberian reality, in fact, will be the first city in Galicia to be able to rely on fully electric city buses, thanks to an agreement made with local manufacturer Unvi. And so, over the next few months, twenty-five new buses will start running on the streets of Ourense, ten of th...

All bus operation in Copenhagen will be electric by the end of 2025. On Friday, the municipalities of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg reached an agreement that the last five diesel-powered bus lines in the Danish capital will be electric, as reported on the trade media Bussmagasinet.se. That specifies:...

Busworld North America‘s doors were opened on Saturday 4th Februrary in Detroit. It’s the first edition of a new format realized in cooperation with the motorcoach operators’ association American Bus Association (ABA), whose marketplace is taking place together with the exposition....