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The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) is partnering with the city of Calgary, that will receive $165 million investment aimed at procuring 259 zero-emission buses by 2027. They’ll be operated by municipal operator Calgary Transit. The city has set the goal to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050....

Nuremberg electric bus fleet grows. 46 more e-buses will be added this year. They will all be Mercedes eCitaro. In order to provide the buses with sufficient space and charging capacity, the depot at the Schweinau site is being expanded. The depot is at the moment equipped with Siemens-made charging...

Another success for the Lion. In fact, the Munich-based manufacturer has won another award, after taking home “Bus of the Year 2023” with the MAN Lion’s City 12 E. That’s right, because the MAN Lion’s City 10 E was voted “Bus of the Year in Spain” at the Nat...

An Ourense first: the Iberian reality, in fact, will be the first city in Galicia to be able to rely on fully electric city buses, thanks to an agreement made with local manufacturer Unvi. And so, over the next few months, twenty-five new buses will start running on the streets of Ourense, ten of th...

All bus operation in Copenhagen will be electric by the end of 2025. On Friday, the municipalities of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg reached an agreement that the last five diesel-powered bus lines in the Danish capital will be electric, as reported on the trade media Bussmagasinet.se. That specifies:...

Busworld North America‘s doors were opened on Saturday 4th Februrary in Detroit. It’s the first edition of a new format realized in cooperation with the motorcoach operators’ association American Bus Association (ABA), whose marketplace is taking place together with the exposition....

A new flagship project for global electric mobility. UITP announces the launch of eBRT2030, the new European Union initiative that aims to support sustainable urban transport by proposing innovative solutions for electric Bus Rapid Transit. Coordinated directly by UITP, EBRT2030 was presented in Bru...

Arrival appoints Igor Torgov as new CEO and announces immediate actions to further reduce its operating costs and to optimize the deployment of its current cash resources. This includes the decision to reduce its global workforce by approximately 50% to 800 employees (up compared to the previously d...

The US e-bus market experienced a 66% increase since 2021. As of September 2022, the total count of full-size battery-electric and fuel-cell electric transit buses has reached 5,480 (it was 3,297 in 2021). The data is reported on CALSTART Zeroing in on ZEBs annual report, that provides an updated in...

The electric market in India is growing in a major way. According to the study of carried out by Ev Reporter during 2022, sales of electric vehicles in the Asian country exceeded one million units for the first time, touching 1,054,938, effectively tripling the sales recorded in 2021: 344,495 sales....