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An order from Hamburg bring to over 700 the number of MAN electric buses on order so far. According to the German group, “90 percent of MAN city buses will be delivered with battery drive by 2030”. Hamburger Hochbahn AG and Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein GmbH (VHH) placed an order for...

TMB has put into service, for the first time in Spain, a fuel cell bus on a public transport network. On Thursday 7 April, users of line X1 will be able to travel with this innovative zero-emission vehicle, produced by CaetanoBus, which is loaded at Iberdrola’s green hydrogen plant. Tomorrow T...

With a series of 16 new generation VDL Citea, VDL Bus & Coach is expanding its long-standing co-operation with KVG Braunschweig (Kraftverkehrsgesellschaft mbH Braunschweig). The operator is indeed going to get a series of 16 new generation Citeas in 2023. The vehicles, of type LF-122 are based e...

A contribution by Prof. Paul Christensen, Claudius Jehle, Alex Johns, Paul Markham published on February 2022 issue of Sustainable Bus magazine. The 1950s through 1980s saw a drive towards increasing the energy density and size of steam turbines from c. 150MW to 600MW – and several severe incidents ...

Transdev inaugurates 406 new electric buses in the city of Bogota, enabling the city to maintain the largest electric bus fleet in Latin America, adding to an existing fleet of 1,061 electric buses. The buses are operated by the Fanalca-Transdev joint venture through its company GREEN MOVIL. Directl...

The 111 electric buses launched yesterday bring to 206 the number of electric buses in operation around Schiphol airport, Amsterdam. The debut in operation was celebrated yesterday by the transport authority Vervoerregio Amsterdam and the operator Transdev Nederland – Connexxion. They’ll...

Bus and rail services together via a single QR code, thanks to a collaboration between First Bus, Great West Railway (GWR) and the ticket machine provider Ticketer. Passengers can now purchase a rail and PlusBus ticket for their complete journey with First Bus and GWR for travel to and around Weston...

ATM Milano (in consortium with Egis) is taking part to Paris‘ tender to win the contract to manage the two new automatic metro lines of the Grand Paris Express. Azienda Trasporti Milanesi, in fact, presented in the last few weeks its bid for the management of the two automatic lines 16 and 17,...

The future of mobility, according to Temsa, goes along with the Avenue Electron unveiled at Busworld 2019. The bus is designed to “take transportation to the next level”, in the Turkish company’s own words. With its different battery options, this zero-emissions, comfortable and bo...

Thanks to Sono Motors, in cooperation with Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG), a solar bus trailer will be running on the streets of Munich, testing the energy yields and potential of the technology in daily operation. This will offer possible savings of up to 2,500 liters of diesel per year and an...