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Keolis obtains the renewal of the public transport contract in Alès, France, and will test a 100% hydrogen bus. On 3 December 2020, the Syndicat Mixte des Transports du Bassin d’Alès (SMBTA), in France’s Gard department, renewed its trust in Keolis for the operation and maintenance of it...

Bluebus announces it has received two new orders for 44 and 65 electric buses with 12-meter length in Paris. The two orders are related to the large tender issued by RATP and financed by Île-de-France Mobilités for up to 800 e-buses (three manufacturers were selected). Bluebus is part of the Bollorè...

Coventry and Oxford are set to be UK’s first all-electric bus cities. The two towns are developing proposals to become the first parts of the UK to run full electric bus services, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced on 6 January 2021. The cities are developing business cases in an England-wid...

Today the largest battery manufacturer in the world, Chinese group CATL has plans to expand its battery capacity to 230 GWh within this year. And a capacity of as many as 1,200 GWh should be reached by 2025, according to a recent analysis by German publication Handelsblatt, focused on business issue...

VDL Bus & Coach Citea is the outcome of a new concept entirely developed on an electric driveline. And, for the first time, it will house batteries in the floor. The launch was announced in December 2020. The first vehicles are going to be deployed in Lahti, Finland. VDL states an impressive ran...

PSI Transcom depot and charging management system for BVG Berlin has been successfully put into operation. It took seven week for the German company to install the PSIebus system at the Indira Gandhi Street depot. This enables the optimal disposition of the electric buses in connection with the char...

Busworld Europe 2021 is preparing to go ‘live’ from 9 to 14 October 2021 for its 50th edition, «fully supported by its exhibitors», as the organizer underlines. Apart from having extra digital possibilities for online visitors, Busworld says it «will invest in making its 50th birthday ed...

The organization announced the decision today «with pain in their heart». The choice is due to the fact that «Busworld cannot fully guarantee its exhibitors that the visitors will join the show in October in the usual numbers». The door is open to alternative events for the month of October. The nex...

BYD has won a new order in Bogota (Colombia) to deliver another 406 pure electric buses. BYD will co-work with Superpolo, a Colombian bus manufacturer, on the body part of the buses for such order. On December 17 2020, BYD had announced the delivery of the first 120 out of a 470 e-bus order in [&hel...

In 2021 the Polish company VERS announces it will introduce a new mild hybrid system for the light hybridization of city buses. The 48V system will be based on supercapacitors and will join the range of products realized by VERS with focus on energy recovery technologies for the automotive sector. V...