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The Federal Minister of Digital Affairs and Transport, Volker Wissing, announced funding amounting to around 160 million euros for the electrification of local public transport in Hamburg and the surrounding area. Money that will be used to finance 472 new battery-electric buses. The recipients of t...

Solaris has been awarded an order for 87 hybrid buses that will be used in the metropolitan area of Barcelona (Spain). The hybrid fleet will be managed by AMB (Area Metropolitana de Barcelona), the institution that administers urban transport in...

Equipmake welcomes the recently announced changes to the UK government’s Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG), which now includes zero-emission buses for the first time, including vehicles repowered with electric drivetrains – but the company calls for more incentives to encourage operator...

Ticketer Group will be attending IT-TRANS 2022, where the company will be presenting the latest innovations in Mobility as a Service and Account-Based Ticketing solutions. IT-TRANS, one of the main public transport exhibitions of 2022, will mark the first time Ticketer and FARA come together as a Gr...

Half a year from the launch, already 100 vehicles in the orders book. In August 2021 Mercedes-Benz unveiled its first electric bus chassis developed for the Brazilian market. Named eO500U, the chassis was about to be launched in 2022, meeting the demands of Brazil and Latin American market (but...

BYD recently won another significant order from Nobina in Finland for a total of 30 electric buses. Nobina is the largest public transport operator in the Nordic region, and this is the third significant order from Finland for zero-emission BYD buses. Nobina’s latest order is split evenly betw...

A fleet of 159 electric buses is set to serve Oxford and its surrounding areas after a bid for government funding was approved. Oxfordshire County Council has been awarded £32.8 million from the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas (ZEBRA) scheme. Oxford: electric buses are coming Along with £43.7m from...

Dutch manufacturers VDL Bus & Coach and Ebusco win the ‘Red Dot’ for design of the 3.0 model and of the new generation Citea  The jury of the world’s most prestigious design competition, Red Dot, gave the award in the ‘Product Design’ category to the two Netherlands-made electric buses. The...

Lightning eMotors, provider of medium-duty and specialty commercial electric vehicles for fleets, announced it has expanded its partnership with Forest River to offer a factory-certified all-electric repower program for shuttle buses and passenger vans. Forest River, in facts, is a Berkshire Hathawa...

The board of directors of De Lijn has started a new procurement for the purchase of up to 1,250 emission-free buses of different types with lengths between 8.5 to 24 metres. This procedure runs parallel to the framework agreement for a maximum of 350 standard e-buses that was awarded last year. De L...