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$18 million will be invested by Quebec’s government into electric school buses. 120 e-buses from the domestic manufacturer Lion Electric will be purchased. These vehicles are to deployed by the bus company Autobus Transco (a subsidiary of First Student Canada) in Montreal. Minister of Transpor...

Forsee Power announces the renewal of its partnership with Iveco Group brands Iveco Bus and Heuliez Bus. Since 2013, the two companies have been working together to develop zero-emission public transport; more than 600 electric buses operate in Europe as of today, according to the French battery sup...

Today the city of Jaworzno in Poland will start testing the Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen bus. The trials will last four weeks. Local transport operator PKM Jaworzno wants to learn all about what the deployment of hydrogen has to offer in urban transport. Operator PKM Jaworzno and Solaris Bus & Coa...

Operators can receive an annual sum of up to 21,700 euros when they replace a diesel bus with a zero-emission bus under the current contracts. Flemish Climate Plan shifts into high gear: 300 extra electric buses run by operators in the next 3 years will reduce CO2 emissions by 50,000 tonnes. Ministe...

A new electric bus concept launched in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy): Rampini has delivered the first unit out of a seven vehicles order. The fleet has a peculiarity: these are the first 6-meter battery-electric buses in Europe with pantograph. They’ll be charged through the trolleybus infrastruc...

Solaris is going to launch in the second half of the 2022 an articulated version of the Urbino hydrogen bus. It is the Polish bus builder to make this public in the framework of a press note announcing the awarding of a 5-units order (of the 12-meter) from Palma de Mallorca, the capital of...

Karsan becomes the leading brand in the electric minibus market in Europe for two consecutive years. The e-Jest was wrapped up 2020 as Europe’s leader in the electric minibus market with a market share of 43 percent, which jumped to 51.2 percent in 2021, placing it once again at the top spot, ...

Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft AG (DVG) put into operation seven Mercedes eCitaro G electric buses in the presence of Ina Brandes, the North Rhine-Westphalia Transport Minister, Ronald R.F. Lünser, Chairman of the Board of Management of Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) , Sören Link, Mayor of the Ci...

Isuzu, Hino and Toyota Motor Corporation are joining forces in order to «strengthen their efforts to electrify buses toward the achievement of carbon neutrality by 2050» in Japan. In collaboration with Commercial Japan Partnership Technologies Co., Ltd., the companies have set the goal of expanding ...

ADL welcomes ScotZEB funding for 137 Scottish-built zero emission buses. The Scottish Government’s has indeed announced the award of £62 million in funding to bus operators through Phase 1 of the Scottish Zero Emission Bus Challenge Fund (“ScotZEB”). The plan was announced in summer 2021. Successful...