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UK Government has announced that it will support five local transport authorities with funding worth nearly £71m under the Zero Emission Bus Regional Area scheme. The investment will support the introduction of up to 335 zero emission buses. The winning authorities were: Cambridgeshire and Peterboro...

Karsan had previously delivered electric vehicles to many cities in Romania and signed high-volume contracts, such as the 56 units headed to Timişoara and Braşov. The Turkish manufacturer recently won the electric vehicle bid for the Deva City: 22 units of e-JEST and 4 units of e-ATAK are planned to...

Solaris has won a tender for the supply of 161 Urbino 12 hybrid buses, together with an 8-year maintenance service. The tender was issued by Opérateur de Transport de Wallonie (OTW), a public transport operator from the French-speaking part of Belgium. The vehicles will make their way to Wallonia in...

BYD has been awarded its first order from TMB Barcelona for 25 new generation 12-metre BYD eBuses. Vehicles from the Chinese company will be operating in the City of Barcelona for the first time ever. The first of BYD’s eBuses on order from TMB are scheduled for delivery in 2022. Still in France, Ma...

Fourth MetroBus line goes electric in Osnabrück, north west of Germany (one year ago it was three e-lines). The PTO Stadtwerke Osnabrück has just announced that line M5 will be completely converted to electric operations by February 2022: the conversion of the final turnaround at Waldfriedhof Dodesh...

Queensland’s first all-electric bus depot will soon be a reality with Keolis Downer selecting Siemens to deliver eBus charging solutions to the new North Lakes depot in Brisbane. Operational from September 2022 and in service from February 2023, the depot will power 16 zero-emission buses (the contr...

Bordeaux Metropole has just selected VDL Bus & Coach for the supply of 36 articulated electric buses Citea new generation on the city’s first Express Bus line between Bordeaux Saint-Jean station and Saint-Aubin de Médoc. «The fast charging technology at the terminals, supplemented by slow ...

The new Škoda E CITY electric bus was presented today at the 10th edition of the Central European fair CZECHBUS, where Sustainable Bus has marked presence.It is a brand new electric bus model from the Škoda Transportation Group. Prague will thus be the first city to operate this modern and environme...

A just-delivered hydrogen bus caught fire in late October in the Netherlands. The vehicle is a Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen under the livery of Arriva NL, and is part of a ten-units order commissioned in early 2021. They were expected to be operating in the province of Gelderland in December of this y...

ZF Bus Connect fleet management system launched: it is developed for city buses and coaches with both electric and combustion engines or hybrid systems also in a mixed fleet. The user can check every aspect of the vehicle, including live view of vehicle locations in real-time, observe current energy...