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UK-based Mellor has supplied a fully accessible Orion E to Cheshire West and Chester Council. The new Orion is significant as being the local authority’s first electric bus, joining an existing fleet of 28 predominantly Mellor-built passenger vehicles.  In late 2021 West Yorkshire Combined Authority...

The Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) has exercised options for eight battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE NG forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses from New Flyer. The order comes in the final year of a two-year contract originally announced in 2020, and includes four ABB depot chargers from NFI Infra...

BUS2BUS announces it has gathered more than 2,000 trade visitors from 25 countries along with around 100 exhibitors from 16 countries. The German exhibition which took place for the third time as an in-person event from 27 to 28 April at the Berlin Exhibition Grounds, came to a successful conclusion...

TPER welcomed yesterday its first VDL Citea SLF-120 Electric, the first of a supply of 21 e-buses that was the subject of a tender awarded to the Dutch group. The investment – financed with national funds – amounts to EUR 10.8 million, including the supply of the 21 vehicles and the elec...

Daimler Buses aims to offer zero emission buses in every segment by 2030 (both battery and hydrogen-powered). Starting in 2023, the Mercedes eCitaro will be also equipped with a hydrogen-based fuel cell as a range extender. The first full electric intercity bus will be launched in 2025. The fuel cel...

RATP has recalled 149 BlueBus electric buses that used to be in operation in Paris. The decision is due to safety reasons, following the recently-occurred fires of two vehicles. Indeed, it comes after an electric bus on line 71 caught fire today in the 13th arrondissement, without causing any injuri...

Battery analytics company TWAICE has raised 30 million dollars in additional Series B financing led by global investment firm Coatue. The round extension, which includes personal investment from Lip-Bu Tan and participation from existing investors, builds on TWAICE’s $26 million Series B in May 2021...

Volvo Connect, launched yesterday 28th April 2022, is Volvo Buses new customer portal where operators and owners can access Volvo Bus services. With the connected services in one place, together with services for workshop efficiency, Volvo’s customers will have a new set of tools to increase uptime ...

The Italian operator ATM Milano has again placed an order for electric buses made by Solaris, going for another batch envisaged in the framework agreement for 250 vehicles signed in 2019. The first two batches, 140 electric Urbino buses in total, have already been delivered to the client. This time ...

Yesterday saw the opening of the two-day BUS2BUS 2022 exhibition, Berlin’s bus trade fair. The venue for this key event for the German market is Messe Berlin’s pavilions 20 and 21, which once again welcomed visitors and vehicles, after a completely digital edition due to the pandemic. Bu...