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Hyundai Motor Company acts as official sponsor of FIFA World Cup 2022 and announces it is providing 616 fleet vehicles to FIFA World Cup 2022. Of that fleet, there will be 446 passenger vehicles, with just over half (226 units) being hybrid electric (HEV) and battery electric (BEV) models. Hyundai w...

On November 6, 2022, the 27th UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) kicked off in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. As the only Chinese bus brand serving COP27, thirty units of Higer’s electric buses provide the zero-carbon shuttle service for the conference. “Higer bus, China’s leading clean...

Flowbird announces it has developed a ‘open ticket’ mobile platform that delivers a ‘one-app, one-account’ environment for integrated multimodal transport, active travel and ID-based subscriptions and passes.  Called Monapass and developed for the Principality of Monaco, the app offers account-...

by Alex Byles From 1 to 3 November at Birmingham’s NEC in the UK, Euro Bus Expo 2022 made its return. With over 200 exhibitors and 80-plus vehicles on display, there was a host of product launches and technology announcements. We summarise the show’s pressing developments. Presenting a variety of pr...

Pelican Bus and Coach, UK dealer of Yutong, has been awarded a funding for as many as £60m from HSBC UK. Money that will be used to roll out up to 250 new electric buses. The news is reported on Insidermedia.com and covered also by Electrive. Pelican has announced during August that they are launchi...

A new call for tenders in the name of e-mobility has been issued by ATM Milano, which has set 2030 as the ‘X’ date for having a 100 per cent electric fleet. The news is reported on Italian specialized media Autobusweb. In view of this date and this goal, the Azienda Trasporti Milanesi ha...

Ebusco has signed a new contract with Svealandstrafiken in Sweden for 13 18-meter Ebusco 3.0 buses, to be delivered in the second half of 2023. This is a follow-up order from Svealandstrafiken and is already the third Swedish contract this year (a new contract was signed lately with Connect Bus). In...

Transdev Group has acquired 10 new e.City Gold electric buses from CaetanoBus, following an international tender. These units will join the four already in operation in the city of Aveiro in the first half of 2023, the manufacturer announces. In addition to the buses, the entire charging infrastruct...

MAN is going to cut 860 jobs at its Starachowice plant in Poland, where the electric bus range Lion’s City E is built. The news is covered on the German media Busblickpunkt and was first reported on infoPOL.PRESS. The group invested some 27 million euros to implement e-bus production there. Th...

Milwaukee County Transit System has launched its first battery-electric bus (together with a new brand identity for the BRT). Passenger service is to begin in June 2023. The vehicle is the Nova Bus LFSe+, the very first ordered in the US. 15 units will be supplied in total. The new BRT brand is call...