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Translink has welcomed the Department for Infrastructure’s announcement of £88 million funding for 100 new Zero Emission buses and EV charging infrastructure and says that the new battery electric buses will be supplied by local manufacturer Wrightbus and will be a mix of single-deck and double-deck...

New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has awarded a contract for 5 electric buses to Nova Bus. The first delivery is expected by the fourth quarter of 2023. The buses will be assembled at the Nova Bus facility in Plattsburgh, New York State. Nova Bus electric buses for MTA in Ne...

De Lijn is placing a new order with SPIE for 252 additional charging stations for its depots. The charging stations are scheduled to go into operation in 2023-2024. This year board of directors of De Lijn has started a procurement for the purchase of up to 1,250 emission-free buses of different type...

Irizar e-mobility and Go Ahead London have signed a contract to supply 20 buses and related charging infrastructure to electrify route 358 in south London, the first ultra-fast opportunity charging route in the capital. Chargers are to be provided by Jema Energy (Irizar Group). One year ago Mayor of...

The Biden-Harris Administration announced the Fiscal Year 2022 recipients of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, awarding nearly $1 billion from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to 389 school districts spanning 50 states, ...

Transdev Group has signed an agreement to acquire First Transit, “creating an even stronger innovation-driven provider of sustainable mobility and public transportation services in the U.S. and Canada”, the France-based multinational company says. In 2021 FirstGroup agreed terms were to ...

Poznan public transport operator MPK Poznań has purchased 25 hydrogen-fuelled buses that will be supplied by Solaris Bus & Coach, whose headquarters are close to the Polish city. The tender was for 15 vehicles, but the carrier exercised its option of extending the order by another 10 buses. Thes...

Mellor will present its new electric bus model Sigma 8 bus for the first time at EuroBus Expo at the NEC next week. The eight-metre battery-electric bus is the latest in a six-model Sigma range (from seven- to 12-metres) to hit the UK market, joining seven and 10-metre models launched at the start o...

11 European cities ask the EU to make purchase of zero emission buses for public transport mandatory from 2027. “Without action at EU level, demand for zero emission urban buses will not be matched by supply“, they wrote in a letter sent to the EU Commission on 24th October. They add: &#...

Tim Dahlmann-Resing elected VDV Vice President (as well as chairman of the TRAM Board of Directors) VDV Executive Committee member Tim Dahlmann-Resing is board member of VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg and long-time chairman of the General Committee for Planning. Tim Dahlmann-Resing succeed...