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1,000 zero emission buses are to be rolled out in the UK with the backing of nearly £200 million in government funding (around 240 million euros). Twelve areas in England, from Greater Manchester to Portsmouth, will receive grants from the multimillion-pound package to deliver electric or hydrogen p...

GreenPower is going to launch the electric school bus Nano Beast claiming a range of up to 150 miles per charge. The Nano Beast (that stays for: Battery Electric Automotive School Transportation) is a purpose-built, zero-emission, Type A school bus on the market. Manufacturer claims that the Nano Be...

Public transport exhibitions – as in any sector – are back in 2022. After two years of cancellations and postponements (with digital events in replacement) due to the pandemic, bus-related and transit-related European and global events are finally back. Let’s now focus our attentio...

Stratio is helping Go-Ahead Ireland in order to reach a zero-downtime future by minimizing service disruptions and preventing breakdowns. After a successful proof of concept (PoC) trial in 2021, Go-Ahead Ireland decided to extend Stratio’s service to its entire fleet, Stratio announces in a press no...

Daimler Truck released today its 2021 results. 20% more trucks and buses have been sold worldwide in 2021 compared to prior-year level (378,300 units), the company released today during an online press conference. During the Q&A session it was also mentioned that they are not bringing buses at I...

12,200 millimeters long, 2,550 wide and 3,350 high. Up to 40 seats and a total of 89 passengers on board. These are the essential figures of the 12-metre electric bus by Karsan. The Karsan E-Ata 12. Karsan e-ATA 12, our test drive Launched in September 2021, the Karsan e-ATA range comes with seven d...

Hitachi Energy has been commissioned a Grid-eMotion fleet system to electrify Arriva’s Brixton Tramshed depot in south London. The same system has just been awarded an order in Berlin. Launched in mid-2020, the depot-based charging solution was also ordered in Swedish Västerås, where&nbsp...

Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) has opened the tender for the purchase of 83 battery electric buses, which will replace diesel buses, which will be retired in 2023. The tender, recently opened in agreement with the Autoritat del Transport Metropolità (ATM), is divided into three lots: al...

Ikarus has just delivered two 120e 12-meter e-buses to the operator Kaposvári Közlekedési Zrt in the city Kaposvár. The news is reported on the local specialized media magyarbusz.info. The Hungarian manufacturer won the contract which includes delivery of charging equipment in September last year. T...

Alexander Dennis Limited (NFI Group) announced that it will build an initial run of 10 electric double-decker buses for Hong Kong operator The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (KMB).The zero-emission Enviro500EVs will be ADL‘s first double-decker electric buses in the Asia-Pacific region and will con...