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The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Luxembourg have urged the European Union to fix a date by which new trucks and buses sold in Europe must have zero emissions, according to a joint statement from the countries reported Reuters. This call comes ahead of the proposal of stricter CO2 emission stand...

The TRATON Group has reported record sales in 2022. For the first time, the group’s overall sales exceeded 300,000 units, with 305,500 vehicles sold in total. This represents a 12% increase from the previous year, where the group sold 271,600 vehicles. However, if we exclude the first-time ful...

The German town of Wesseling has taken a significant step towards a cleaner and greener future by introducing fuel cell buses into its public transportation system. The Regionalverkehr Köln GmbH (RVK), the local public transportation company, now operates in the town exclusively with these hydrogen ...

Inflation and energy crises led to a wave of free public transport tickets policies launched or announced within the last few months. And a newly-released study by Politecnico di Milano University adds some interesting figures to the debate – we’ll get to this in a few line...

Thirty new e.City Gold electric buses from CaetanoBus for Carris, which for the second time has chosen the Portuguese manufacturer to reinforce its fleet in service in Lisbon, after an initial order dated 2019. This is a €12.7 million investment. CaetanoBus’s e.City Golds mount a new version o...

The first time of Busworld in North America. Early February will see the very first edition of Busworld North America in Detroit (and Sustainable Bus editorial team will be attending!). The first edition of Busworld dates back in November 1971 in Kortrijk, Belgium. Today, Busworld organizes bus and ...

End and beginning of a year are quite good timing for recaps and forecasts. Here we go with a batch of predictions. BloombergNEF ‘Electric Vehicles Outlook 2022’, out late last year, highlighted that transport is the only other sector on track to reduce emissions by 2050. Uptake of electric vehicles...

Farizon Auto, the commercial vehicle brand within the Geely automotive group, is ‘on fire’ in China. In 2022, the manufacturer managed to achieve the largest cumulative sales volume among all brands in China. Only in December 2022, Farizon Auto sold 10,244 vehicles, as reported on Sustainable Truck&...

A new associate member for the ITxPT (Information Technology for Public Transport) association, welcoming Safra, France’s first hydrogen bus manufacturer and a forerunner in hydrogen bus retrofits. This membership confirms Safra’s commitment to design and manufacture its products accordi...

by omnibus.newsPhoto credit: BVG Issues with electric buses in Berlin are nothing new; two years ago, it was the shortened range in cold weather that worried BVG. The transport authority sought contact with the then electric bus supplier Solaris, because the vehicles of the Urbino electric series co...