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The Biden-Harris Administration announced the Fiscal Year 2022 recipients of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, awarding nearly $1 billion from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to 389 school districts spanning 50 states, ...

Transdev Group has signed an agreement to acquire First Transit, “creating an even stronger innovation-driven provider of sustainable mobility and public transportation services in the U.S. and Canada”, the France-based multinational company says. In 2021 FirstGroup agreed terms were to ...

Poznan public transport operator MPK Poznań has purchased 25 hydrogen-fuelled buses that will be supplied by Solaris Bus & Coach, whose headquarters are close to the Polish city. The tender was for 15 vehicles, but the carrier exercised its option of extending the order by another 10 buses. Thes...

Mellor will present its new electric bus model Sigma 8 bus for the first time at EuroBus Expo at the NEC next week. The eight-metre battery-electric bus is the latest in a six-model Sigma range (from seven- to 12-metres) to hit the UK market, joining seven and 10-metre models launched at the start o...

11 European cities ask the EU to make purchase of zero emission buses for public transport mandatory from 2027. “Without action at EU level, demand for zero emission urban buses will not be matched by supply“, they wrote in a letter sent to the EU Commission on 24th October. They add: &#...

Tim Dahlmann-Resing elected VDV Vice President (as well as chairman of the TRAM Board of Directors) VDV Executive Committee member Tim Dahlmann-Resing is board member of VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg and long-time chairman of the General Committee for Planning. Tim Dahlmann-Resing succeed...

IVU Traffic Technologies has founded a new subsidiary in Sweden, premise for a stronger presence in the Scandinavian market. The fully owned subsidiary IVU Traffic Technologies Nordic AB is based in Stockholm in order to “provide an even better service to the numerous IVU customers in Northern...

Jema Energy has been contracted by London’s “largest bus operator” for the electrification of the London bus line 358 which runs approx. 16 miles. This has been the first route in London to use this technology.  Jema Energy awarded the electrification of London longest bus lin...

With the sixth and last e-bus patio launched in Colombia, Enel X has completed one of the most important e-bus installations worldwide. Journey has started in 2019. The project launched in August 2022 calls for the installation of 229 new zero-emission buses from which 42,379 users will benefit, mai...

IAA Transportation in Hannover was the right place for IVECO to put on display not only the eDaily in its BEV version, but also the ambitious project regarding the fuel cell version. The latter was developed by IVECO in close cooperation with Hyundai Motor Company, with Hyundai and Iveco Group&...