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ZF announced the successful start of its new “Commercial Vehicle Solutions” (CVS) division with effect from January 1, 2022. The new division «combines ZF’s expertise in the commercial vehicle industry and will significantly advance solutions for safe, sustainable and digitized transport», the compa...

70,000 electric buses delivered by BYD worldwide (only 2.5% in Europe). The Chinese giant has just announced the milestone, achieved after a decede from the launch of its first pure electric bus fleet in commercial operations. In Europe, BYD makes public it has delivered over 1,800 electric buses, o...

Eric Baleviez joined Safra on 1 January as Commercial Director of Safra Matériel Transport Public. The news of the appointment is reported on French specialized media Autocar&Bus Infos. Eric Baleviez in Safra will be in charge of hydrogen buses, bus and rail, and H2 retrofit. Previously he held ...

Change of plan in Montpellier: the fuel cell bus project has been scratched, the city now bets on battery-electric buses. A couple years ago Montpellier metropolitan authority sets out the plan to procure around 50 fuel cell buses for deployment between 2023 and 2025. Also the realization of a hydro...

by Stefano Alfano Nancy has placed an order with Hess of Bellach (GH) for 25 double-articulated trolleybuses of the Lightram 25 model, which are already in operation and performing very well in Swiss cities of Bern, Zurich, Lausanne, Lucerne and St. Gallen. The French town, with a population of arou...

Ebusco has received a follow on order from Stadtwerke München. It concerns an order for 14 Ebusco 2.2 18-metre buses. The delivery is scheduled for the first half of 2023. Stadtwerke München already has extensive experience with Ebusco buses. There are currently 12 Ebusco 2.2 12-metre buses in opera...

With an initial focus on the manufacture of electric vehicles for the European market, and Research and Development of Switch’s next-generation of electric buses and light commercial vehicles, the Spanish site will have capacity to also serve markets further afield, including South America, Switch M...

CaetanoBus continues expanding over Europe and has supplied one hydrogen-powered bus to the operator Nobina, one of the biggest public transport operators in Scandinavia. The delivery of the first H2.City Gold unit occurred last week and will start operating in January 2022, for Movia in Copenhagen....

Moscow has demonstrated European and American leadership in the number of electric buses in the city: the capital of Russia, in fact, launched the 1,000th e-bus. This electric bus became the 400th vehicle purchased with Green Bond funds. The goal of the project is to show how such collaborations can...

Zero emission bus deployment in the US has been growing 27% in 2021, up to 3,533 buses (on the road and on order). CALSTART published its annual inventory of zero-emission buses, (ZEBs) “Zeroing in on ZEBs”, providing insight on the current state of ZEBs ahead of $5.25 billion in Infrastructure Inve...