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Starting from 30 May, Flemish operator De Lijn will operate the first electric buses of its latest generation in Limburg, more specifically from the Winterslag depot in Limburg on the Genk city network and on some regional lines between Genk, Hasselt, Tongeren and Houthalen. De Lijn has plans to mak...

PTV Group will be exhibiting at UITP Global Public Transport Summit 2023, from June 4 to 7, 2023 in Barcelona, Spain. The world’s market leader for mobility planning software will present its latest solutions for public transport planning as well as state-of-the-art calculation methods which cover a...

Volvo celebrated its 25th anniversary in Mexico by unveiling a locally manufactured electric bus, named Luminus. A couple years ago Volvo Buses tested a 7900 Electric in the country. In April 2023 the group announced that the Egyptian company MCV (Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles) will produce body...

Crossway LE Elec, eDaily for passengers’ transportation, Streetway Electric. These are the three innovations launched today (24th May) by Iveco Bus during an electromobility-focused event held in Paris. Also a ‘new generation’ version of the E-Way was launched. One of the key highl...

An autonomous on-demand ride-pooling service with three to five vehicles and two automated bus systems, one made of one driverless MAN electric bus (with autonomous technology by Mobileye) and the other operated via two Ebusco 3.0 connected via platooning. These are the ingredients of MINGA project,...

Forsee Power and MTB Transit Solutions together to retrofit buses in Canada. Forsee Power, in fact will provide battery systems to MTB to convert diesel buses to electric vehicles. The first retrofit project in Canada was launched last month by the city of Milton, which contracted MTB itself to conv...

The Sustainable Bus Awards, the prestigious event celebrating innovation and sustainability in the public transport sector, has unveiled the shortlist of finalists. Once again this year, seven esteemed European journalists were entrusted with the responsibility of selecting the most remarkable bus m...

A significant discrepancy has emerged between the new CO2 regulations put forth by the EU Commission and the Clean Vehicle Directive, in force since 2021. This discrepancy revolves around the definition of an urban bus and carries substantial implications for the decarbonization initiatives in the p...

Busworld Europe 2023 is set to be live in Brussels from 7 to 12 October. Exhibitors are going to exceed 500, including a significant number of new companies (around 27% of the total). Focus? E-mobility, hydrogen, digital solutions. Among the main news, the ‘integration’ of the European Z...

Ballard Power Systems is set to showcase its latest generation FCmove hydrogen fuel cell modules for zero-emission public transport at the UITP Global Transport Summit in Barcelona, from 4-7 June 2023. New Ballard’s 70kW FCmove HD and 100kW FCmove-HD+ are designed for the specific requirements of tr...