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Winterthur, a Swiss city of 111.800 inhabitants, the second largest in the canton of Zurich, received on 30 august 2022 the first new  trolleybus, model Lightram 25 with a length of 24 metres, by Hess in Bellach. The vehicle, in garish redand-white livery, is already in the Stadtbus Winterthur depot...

Foton signed a deal for 1,022 electric city buses headed to Santiago de Chile. Total value? 1.6 billion RMB. The deal, signed in August, marks the biggest order of domestically manufactured electric city buses from the overseas market. Currently, over 300 units of Foton electric buses (accounting ne...

A total of 68 Irizar e-buses will be added to the Avanza public transport fleet in Zaragoza (Spain). 51 will be 12-metre buses and the rest will be 18-metre buses. The first Irizar ie tram 100% emission-free bus was presented at a press conference and marks the start of the modernization and electri...

This is the largest order for electric buses in the UK, excluding the capital London. Leading the way is First Bus, which has awarded an order worth £81 million, for a total of 193 ebuses to manufacturer Wrightbus, scheduled to hit the roads in March 2023. First Bus will invest £43 million in the ne...

By Rune Prytz, head of research at Stratio Public transport companies play a major role in making the achievement of climate goals possible. By electrifying their fleets and by offering a service that is efficient, reliable, and capillary, transport operators have the chance to not only reduce the e...

Below, a contribution fromTUMI – Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative.It’s the fourth of a series of articles focusing on TUMI E-Bus Mission.Funded by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and participated by organizations such as C40 Cities, GIZ, ICCT...

On-demand vehicle routing and management platform The Routing Company has named Lindy Norris as Vice President of Marketing and Policy. Matt Horton has joined the Board of Directors. The announcement follows the recent addition of industry veteran Dick Alexander, who joined TRC as Vice President of ...

From Portugal to Andalusia is a short step. So here’s Caetano taking center stage in a demonstration in Malaga, showing off the technology of the H2 City Gold, the hydrogen-powered, zero-emission bus made in Portugal. A technology that is of great interest to the Spanish city, which is committ...

Just a few more weeks and the curtain will rise on the 2022 edition of IAA Transportation in Hannover, scheduled for September 20-25. A landmark trade fair for the world of transportation and logistics, which has been revamped to better accommodate instances and players from the bus, commercial vehi...

Alexander Dennis has taken a second order for its new Enviro500EV electric double deck bus, this time from Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation. Delivery will be in 2023. Government-owned MTR Corporation provides Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway urban rail system including a network of feeder bus services, f...