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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...

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 ...