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Today is the day of the launch for the world’s first fleet of double decker fuel cell buses. They are deployed in Aberdeen (Scotland) by First Bus in a project led by Aberdeen City Council. The vehicles are manufactured by Wrightbus. The city council makes public that plans are in place for Ab...

Solaris Bus & Coach and Dutch carrier Arriva Netherlands have signed an agreement for the delivery of 10 Solaris Urbino hydrogen buses. In accordance with the contract, the 12-metre fuel cell bus units will be delivered to the province of Gelderland in the course of this year. Arriva will start ...

On Friday 15 January, the 6-metre Bluebus shuttle has been officially launched by the Agglo du Pays de Dreux (some 90 km west of Paris), in partnership with Keolis Drouais. The minibus is now part of the Linéad network. The electric shuttle, called the Citadine, is free and connects the different di...

The public purchasing station in France UGAP is offering fuel cell buses for the first time. The manufacturers Safra and Van Hool have been selected for commercialization through UGAP starting from February 2021. UGAP points out that in France since 1 January 2020, 50% of newly acquired buses and co...

Transdev has signed an €874 million electric bus contract with TransMilenio S.A. (Colombia), Bogotá City’s Public Transport Authority, for the 15-year operation and maintenance of 406 electric buses in the capital Bogotá, starting at the end of November 2021. Following its 20-year presence in Bogotá...

The Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) announces the release of the Transit Vehicle Innovation Deployment Centers (TVIDC) Advisory Panel Overview and Conclusions report. This report, prepared by CTE and published by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), is the culmination of dis...

Twaice has been announced winner of the 2021 Global Cleantech 100 European Company of the Year. The German company achieved the highest rank of all European (and Israel) companies. Recently Twaice joined the European Battery Alliance. In late 2020 Twaice opened a new lab in Munich that allows EV bat...

The city of Triel-sur-Seine, in France, just launched the trial phase of its new 100% electric shuttle service. Ordered from the Bluebus company, a 6-metre-long electric bus will be delivered this summer. In order to test the route, the municipality rented a similar model, with the company Bluestati...

BUS2BUS has been rescheduled for 2022. Messe Berlin made the decision after consulting with leading national and international companies and the Federal Association of German Bus and Coach Operators (bdo). The next edition of Germany’s only trade show for the bus industry will be held on 27 and 28 A...

401 recently awarded battery-electric buses for Bogota (Colombia) will be again owned by Enel X and rented to bus operators, in the framework of a business model which is gaining ground in Latin America (starting with Santiago de Chile). Enel X will also build two new electriterminals to host the e-...