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By the end of 2025, Wiener Linien will convert nine of its 127 routes to operation with the battery-electric bus Mercedes eCitaro. In fact, the operator has just announced an order for 60 eCitaro buses. The vehicles will be delivered from next year until 2025. In summer 2022 Austrian government anno...

Nordic region’s largest public transport operator Nobina will be the first in Sweden to put the new generation VDL Citea into operation. The electric buses, which are a Class 2 design and developed from scratch, are to be used for regional traffic in Ale in the area covered by the transportation aut...

The Danish bus company Vikingbus has ordered 31 Mercedes eCitaro buses. In future, they will mainly be used in Køge, a harbor town south of the Danish capital Copenhagen in the east of the island of Sjӕlland. The city buses are planned to go into operation at the turn of the year 2023/2024. Mercedes...

30 September 2022 saw the closure of the historic Milan-Limbiate line, the last interurban tramway line, witness to a vast network that had been in operation since the end of the 19th century and unfortunately now suppressed.Opened in 1882 from Milan to Affori in horse-drawn traction, the line was t...

Spain’s first tram-train is a reality, and Cadiz, an Andalusian city of 117,000 inhabitants, is awarded the first such service.On 26 October, the Bay of Cadiz tramway, also known as Trambahia, was opened for operation. The tramway will play a fundamental role in the sustainable mobility of the...

The Routing Company announces it has received a two-year contract from Fairfield and Suisun Transit (FAST), the City of Fairfield’s transit system in Solano County, California. FAST operates eight fixed routes in the City of Fairfield, located northeast of California’s Bay Area. The Routing Company ...

Solaris has won a tender held by public transport operator MPK in Cracow for the delivery of electric buses. At the end of October the carrier signed a contract with the manufacturer for the delivery of 18 articulated electric vehicles. The contract is worth over PLN 98 million. The contract include...

MAN begins looking at the post-usage strategy for its batteries. The aim is to extend the life of the batteries in the first step and, if this is no longer possible, to recycle the raw materials contained in them. A second-life project for testing used MAN vehicle batteries in stationary storage sys...

A total of 7,023 professionals, 15% of whom were foreign – from 28 different countries – attended the fourteenth International Bus and Coach Trade Fair, FIAA 2022, organised by IFEMA MADRID, at its Recinto Ferial, from 18 to 21 October. An event with participation of more than 70 compani...

Besides launching a new 8-meter e-bus model, Mellor took the opportunity of Euro Bus Expo 2022 for announcing the introduction of further variants to its all-electric Sigma 7 and Sigma 9 bus models, part of a six-model Sigma range (from seven- to 12-metres) launched in late 2021. Sigma 7 now boasts ...