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At the end of the summer, the IAA Transportation (September 20-25) will be held in Hannover, a week dedicated to international leaders involved in logistics and commercial and passenger transport. With an eye towards new trends in mobility, in the name of sustainability and emissions-free commitment...

California’s AVTA becomes North America’s first all-electric transit agency. The milestone has been achieved with the delivery of its 20th MCI electric coach, that joins 57 BYD e-buses and 10 GreenPower EV Star Microtransit vans. AVTA is the transit agency serving the cities of Palmdale, Lancaster, ...

Abellio London’s Walworth depot has clocked up over two million electric bus miles. 34 Caetano e.City Gold electric buses were introduced during 2020 on two London routes. The Abellio London-operated buses have been running on routes P5 (Nine Elms-Elephant and Castle) and C10 (Canada Water-Victoria)...

President Biden and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) awarded $409.3 million in grants to 70 projects in 39 states to modernize and electrify America’s buses, make bus systems and routes more reliable, and improve their safety. FTA received more than ...

On behalf of the city of Zielona Góra, its municipal transport operator Miejski Zakład Komunikacji has awarded an order to Solaris for the delivery of 8 e-buses. These Urbino 12 electric units will be adapted to use the charging systems already in place in Zielona Góra. The batteries will be charged...

At the BUS2BUS 2022 panel discussions, experts will discuss challenges and the outlook for the bus industry. Federal Minister of Transport Volker Wissing will visit the Trade Show and talk about the environmental importance of bus and coach travel. On 27 and 28 April 2022, when the bus industry meet...

Local public transport in the Chinese city of Heze, Shandong Province, is going electric. One hundred ten-metre Zhongtong buses of the new electric series have arrived and are now in operation, providing an environmentally friendly transport service for citizens, as Chinabuses.org reports. The new b...

The webinar was opened by an overview by UITP and gathered contributions from cities embarked on the way to the transition to e-buses, such as Brisbane, and from PTOs represented in the German organization VDV. Finally, the point of view of the bus builder has been represented by Ebusco‘s CEO Peter ...

The St. Louis fleet in the USA will operate 18 New Flyer buses, seating approximately 60 people each, on the city’s busiest routes and will be electrified by ABB’s high-powered charging infrastructure. ABB claims its charging solution for St. Louis «represents the largest deployment of c...

In 2021, 68.8% of all new buses registered in the European Union ran on diesel. Electrically-chargeable buses posted strong growth, resulting in their market share increasing from 6.1% in 2020 to 10.6% last year. Alternative fuels powered 10.5% of all new buses sold, while hybrid electric vehicles a...