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4 MAN Lion’s City E buses have started scheduled operation for Voyages Emile Weber, in Luxembourg. Also, Belgian operator Hansea is now testing an electric bus from MAN demo fleet for a year. MAN’s electric buses are still touring Europe: the roadshow enters its second round, the manufacturer says. ...

The Dutch e-bus producer Ebusco and the telematics company ViriCiti announce they have formalized a 7-year partnership. Therefore, Ebusco will continue to use ViriCiti’s fleet management service to power its Ebusco Live monitoring system, pre-installed in all Ebusco buses. The two Dutch companies ha...

Keolis wins a new bus contract in Thionville in France’s Grand Est Region with a focus on growing ridership. The public transport company will operate and maintain the Citéline public transport network.  This public service delegation contract1 will come into effect on 1 April 2021 for a period of a...

According to Moscow Transport Department, the use of e-buses on Moscow routes reduced the volume of local emissions polluting the air by 400 tons in 2020. E-bus deployment in Moscow started in September 2018. Since then a modern public transport fleet has replaced traditional buses on 42 routes over...

The sale process of the compressor manufacturer GEA Bock GmbH to the international financial investor NORD Holding has been concluded: now, following the spin-off from GEA Group, the compressor manufacturer will be operating on the market as an independent company under the new name Bock GmbH.  The ...

In 2020 Solaris increased to 1,560 units from 1,487 in 2019, with a 4.6% increase that, in a difficult year as 2020 has been, it is quite a surprising results (city bus market decreased in Europe of around 10 per cent). Today the Polish company outlined the 2020 results during an online-held press c...

Due to the pandemic, «global bus markets recorded a significant decline of almost 40 percent in 2020 and the core markets of Daimler Buses of 45 percent. With a good 20,200 complete buses and chassis sold, sales in fiscal year 2020 were almost 40 percent below the strong sales result of the prior ye...

In California, the Anaheim Transportation Network (ATN) was awarded a $5 million grant to advance its effort to become California’s first all-electric transit operator.  The grant, awarded by the California Energy Commission, will be used to acquire charging stations, batteries, and the other solar ...

Using sustainably sourced energy to power the buses of today and into the future is compelling and logical, but in order to bring the conversation of sustainability on a more wholistic level, as much of the vehicle as possible should have as small an ecological footprint as possible from materials t...

First Bus has just ordered 22 BYD ADL Enviro200EV electric buses for Glasgow network. The buses, which are part-funded by the Scottish Government (through the first round of the Scottish Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme), will be deployed in Glasgow in time for the COP26 United Nations’ Climate Change ...