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The international bus and coach industry will meet on 27 and 28 April at the Berlin Exhibition Centre for the third edition of Bus2Bus, after a 2021 event held online for obvious pandemic reasons. Product innovations, specialist presentations and networking events make BUS2BUS one of the industry&#8...

BAE Systems has been selected by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) to supply up to 340 electric drive systems for its new fleet of low emission transit buses. BAE Systems will provide 220 electric drive systems to New Flyer of America Inc., with an option for 120 additio...

Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (rnv), the leading public transport provider in Germany’s Rhein-Neckar Metropolitan Region, will in future rely on MOBILEcharge, INIT’s charge management solution for electric buses. It will be seamlessly connected to rnv’s recently implemented depot management system for b...

Santiago, Chile, is the 1,000th city in the world to choose Optibus, the cloud-native planning, scheduling, rostering and operations platform for mass transit, to optimize and power its public transportation system. This milestone means the number of cities using Optibus to improve transportation ef...

The city of Oberhausen, located in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and local public transport operator Stoag welcome the first batch of 15 new-generation electric Citea by VDL. Four electric VDL Citea are already in operation on route 979 between Oberhausen and Bottrop. Boris Höltermann of VDL ...

The Quantron Cizaris 12-meter electric bus was launched today during a digital unveiling ceremony. The new bus model in the Augsburg-based company’s bus portfolio is now available as an all-electric version (Cizaris 12 EV), followed in 2023 by a fuel cell drive (Cizaris 12 H) using a largely i...

It will be Singaporean transport giant ComfortDelGro that will operate a fleet of twenty electric buses at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) campus from September 2022. This comes three months after ComfortDelGro won a $30 million contract to operate electric shuttle bus services at the Nat...

From Colombia to Kenya, India to Uganda, a new and impactful initiative is supporting major metropolitan areas to expand and speed up their e-bus rollout of e-buses. The Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI) works with cities in the Global South to support the rapid transition to electrifi...

One thousand seven hundred miles up and down the west coast of the United States of America thanks to the battery-powered electric bus by Van Hool, model CX45E. All using only the chargers available to the public. Part of the trip by ABC Companies was done in collaboration with MTRWestern, where the...

New Flyer has received a new contract from the New York City Transit Authority for 60 battery-electric, zero-emission Xcelsior CHARGE NG forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses. The order is supported by Federal Transit Administration funds and advances NYCT’s goal to reduce New York City’s carbon footp...