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Go-Ahead has signed a contract to buy its first fuel cell bus fleet. 20 hydrogen vehicles will be deployed by Brighton & Hove and Metrobus. The buses have been commissioned to Northern Irish manufacturer Wrightbus. They’ll be on service on the Fastway routes in the Crawley, Redhill and Gat...

Ted Dowling has been appointed Managing Director North America for Ebusco, in the framework of the Dutch company’s expansion on world markets outside Europe. He has formerly covered the position of BYD Regional Vice President. Ebusco makes public it «will expand its sales and marketing of its ...

CapMetro (Austin) bets strongly on electric bus deployment. The public transport company has indeed awarded NFI subsidiary New Flyer a contract for 26 battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE NG forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses and four battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE NG sixty-foot heavy-duty transit bu...

Vėjo projektai and Altas Auto are combining their sales forces. The two Lithuanian companies join forces with the goal of sharing engineering experience and representing the interests of sustainable transport at the national – Lithuanian – level. By joining forces, the companies will als...

BYD French e-bus factory will be halted. The Chinese e-bus (and EVs) maker has decided to close the plant, but has underlined that it will still be active in the French market. The news is reported on the French specialized media Bus&Car Connexion. Announced in spring 2017, the plant was suppose...

IAA Commercial Vehicles is expanding its concept and, as IAA Transportation, will be – in the organizers’ intentions – the leading international platform for logistics, commercial vehicles, buses and the transportation sector. The new IAA Transportation – after the cancellati...

Dignitaries from around the world, including UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and UN Secretary-General António Guterres, travelled in a fleet of BYD ADL Enviro400EV electric double deck buses during the COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. ADL collaborated with transport group Stagecoach in providing ten elec...

CNH Industrial announces the organizational structure of the future Iveco Group. Designated CEO Gerrit Marx will lead this new, to be listed, company with its commercial vehicles, powertrain, specialty vehicles and financial services businesses into independent operation in early 2022. At the helm o...

First Bus has selected Hitachi Europe as a prime strategic partner for the decarbonisation programme at its flagship Caledonia bus depot in Glasgow. The partnership is expected to support First Bus in its decarbonisation journey, starting with the provision of 148 electric buses over the next 18 mon...

This content is produced by Sustainable Bus in commercial partnership with ChargeSim The market share of electric vehicles is fast increasing, from initial test installations of a few vehicles and early adopters’ significant component of some fleets, including some installations that are going all-e...