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Nova Bus announced it has secured a groundbreaking contract for the largest-ever order of electric buses in North America. The Société de transport de Montréal (STM) acting as agent in collaboration with the Association du transport urbain du Québec (ATUQ) has awarded Nova Bus a base order of 339 LF...

Four years after work began, the extension of the Bordeaux tram line A between Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport and the city centre was inaugurated on 29 April 2023. The new section, approximately 5 km long, is separated from the Quatre – Chemins stop and includes four new stops in addition to the te...

Italian central purchasing body Consip has launched a new tender for the supply of 500 electric and hydrogen-powered buses, worth €327 million. The initiative will allow public administrations to acquire the vehicles, using the resources provided by Next Generation EU funds. For the first time also ...

Daimler Truck has reported a strong start to 2023, with unit sales and revenue significantly above the prior year’s quarter. In Q1 2023, the company sold 125,172 units, a 15% increase from the same period last year, while revenue rose by 25% to €13.2 billion. The bus business is delivering a particu...

German Federal Minister Volker Wissing has granted €7.3 million in funding for hydrogen projects in the Rheinische Revier region. The funding will go towards the construction of a hydrogen refuelling station and an electrolyser at RVK Mechernich site (60 km from Cologne and Bonn). Both projects were...

A manual ramp and an electrically operated ramp for access to buses: two devices in one single product. HÜBNER has developed a hybrid system that makes it easier for disabled persons to board buses. The new module combines an electric and a manual ramp in one unit. The first 250 double ramps have be...

BorgWarner announces it has been selected by a “global power technology leader” to supply battery packs for a series of electric buses. BorgWarner will provide a pair of standardized ultra-high energy packs and a battery management system that the company will integrate into its electrif...

Proterra has appointed David Black, a public company finance executive with more than 30 years’ experience in public corporate accounting and finance leadership, as new Chief Financial Officer, effective May 16, 2023. He joins the previously named new CIO (Chief Information Officer) Dustin Goodwin, ...

After announcing that the Egyptian company MCV (Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles) will produce bodyworks for its electric buses for the European market, Volvo Buses has announced that it has placed a bet on the Spanish company Sunsundegui – a historic partner – for the production of bod...

MAN Truck & Bus has delivered six electric articulated e-buses to Stadtwerke Tübingen. The MAN Lion’s City 18 E are the first fully electric articulated buses to be operated by the carrier TüBus. And other four fully electric MAN buses in the 12-metre variant are to be put into operation at TüBu...