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On Monday 17th January, the new Skoda E’ City electric bus from the Skoda Transportation Group went on its first test drive with passengers in Prague. The electric bus will now take test drives mainly on lines 154 and 213 and during weekends also on line 124. Prague is the first city where thi...

Building on the first edition held in 2021 with two web events gathering over 2,000 single attendees and 11 partners, the Sustainable Bus Tour is back in 2022 with a schedule made of four webinars that will be pursuing the goal of discussing key issues and outlooks of the public transport sector wit...

IT-TRANS 2022 will not held in March but in May: the UITP-backed event has been scheduled to 10-12 May 2022. The exhibition is the largest event of its kind dedicated to digitalisation and Information Technology in public transport. «Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, UITP has worked hard to make ...

Polish Enterprise Fund VIII, a private equity fund managed by Enterprise Investors (EI), is to invest over EUR 45 million in Ekoenergetyka-Polska, thus acquiring a significant minority stake in the Polish-based charging infrastructures’ supplier. To date, the Polish supplier has implemented se...

A fully electric bus Mercedes eCitaro G was tested for the first time on the Alpe di Siusi, in Italy, at an altitude of 2,000 metres. “This is the first ever test of an 18-metre long battery-electric bus for local public transport at this altitude. It is a special moment for zero-emission mobi...

Karsan delivered 10 units of 10-meter-long e-ATA buses to the city of Slatina. In addition, Karsan already signed Turkey’s largest electric bus export agreement for the sale of 56 e-ATA buses to Romania. e-ATA, inspired by the Turkish word “Ata”, which means the eldest member of a ...

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...