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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...

Bratislava is ready to modernise its trolleybus fleet. To do so, it has commissioned Skoda Transportation Group and Solaris, which together have won two tenders for the supply of 23 bi-articulated trolleybuses and 16 three-articulated trolleybuses with high passenger capacity. The value of the two o...

Indian electric bus manufacturer Olectra has added 150 more vehicles to its fleet in Pune. Olectra’s total fleet of 300 electric buses in Pune is the largest in the segment compared to any city in India. The company announces it is confident of adding another 350 buses to Pune Mahanagar Pariva...

More buses signed Solaris for the city of Dortmund (Germany) and this time they will all be electric. Yes, because the Polish manufacturer will deliver to the German reality thirty e-buses, Urbino 18 model, by the end of 2022. This investment by public transport operator Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG is ...

Pepper Motion GmbH and REV Mobilities, pioneers in electric mobility, want to bring commercial vehicle retrofits as OEM series to France in the short term. With this first German-French cooperation in the field of retrofitting, Pepper is targeting one of the strongest bus and truck markets in Europe...

Hitachi Energy Grid-eMotion Fleet charging system will be implemented in two new depots in Berlin, where the city operator BVG has set the goal of a zero-emission bus fleet by 2030. 90 e-buses will be deployed in 2022, according to plans. Infrastructure’s provider Hitachi Energy (who is suppor...

Twenty hydrogen-powered buses are deployed on the roads of Heinenoord, Netherlands, for local public transport. In the town, in fact, built by Everfuel, a new fuel cell vehicle station has been inaugurated, destined to supply the vehicles of Connexxion, co-financed by the Clean Hydrogen Partnership ...

This new Irizar ie tram, a zero emissions electric bus in the style of a tram, is the first of the model to be added to the six electric buses already in the Bilbobus fleet. Irizar electric bus in Bilbao The new 12 metre long Irizar ie tram has 43 seats, 2 wheelchair areas and […]

BUS2BUS 2022 is on the launching pad and announces the new vehicles that are going to be launched in Berlin on 27 and 28 April. The BUS2BUS 2022, scheduled for 27 and 28 April in Berlin, will be the first on-site event for the bus industry since the Corona outbreak. Last year the exhibition was held...

Quantron AG achieved sales of 10 million euros in fiscal year 2021, based on «a strong start to the conversion business in the commercial vehicle segment with its Q-Retrofit business unit», as the Augsburg-based company says. Quantron results 2021 Compared with the previous year, the result represen...