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Electric buses increased to a share of 6.1% of the registrations in Europe, while diesel vehicles decreased almost 10 percentage points from 2019 to 72.9%. The figures released by ACEA take into consideration all the new medium and heavy buses (over 3.5 tonnes) registered in the European Union, then...

The Luxembourg passenger transport and tourism company Voyages Emile Weber (VEW) has awarded the PSI subsidiary Moveo Software GmbH (subsidiary of PSI) with the delivery of the personnel dispatching system Moveo Profahr as well as the integrated depot and charging management system PSIebus. VEW has ...

The population of Amman will benefit from the introduction of a new bus fleet in the Jordanian capital thanks to its participation in EBRD Green Cities, the Bank’s pioneering urban sustainability programme A €14.8 million loan will be provided for 15 electric and 136 Euro V diesel buses. EBRD financ...

A new order from Sweden (12 vehicles to be delivered in Uppsala) has been secured. The first regular service operations for the MAN Lion’s City 18 E have begun these days: the articulated battery-electric bus can now be seen on the streets of Cologne every day. MAN Truck & Bus handed over the fi...

Paving the way for electrification of bus fleets by operating batteries on behalf of the operator. The UK-based company Zenobe Energy is protagonist of some significant key studies. Take London, where 34 e-buses were put in operation last year leveraging on an innovative financing scheme: Zenobe Ene...

Yesterday Arrival became a Nasdaq listed public company, with plans to use approximately $660 million in gross proceeds to ramp up delivery of its electric vehicles (Arrival bus included) and expand its global network of Microfactories. Arrival will be ringing the Nasdaq’s opening bell on Monday 29t...

Métropole Rouen Normandie has ordered a batch of 10 Mercedes eCitaro. “We’re putting our trust in 100 % electrified buses,” announces Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, Chair of Métropole Rouen Normandie. The region in north-west France consists of the city of Rouen and 70 predominantly smal...

Irizar e-mobility electromobility solutions are headed to Bulgaria. Specifically, they are arriving in Burgas, which for the first time will include 44 Irizar ie bus zero emissions electric buses in its fleet. It is the first electromobility project in that city and one of the largest in Bulgaria to...

BYD UK and Alexander Dennis Limited are adding operational flexibility to the Enviro EV range, which is now assembled entirely in the UK (chassis included). Additional charging options will be provided: in addition to AC plug charging, all of the partnership’s zero emission buses can now be specifie...

Last week Solaris has signed a deal with public transport operator Dopravní Podnik in Ostrava (DPO) for the supply of 24 Urbino 12 electric buses and the charging infrastructure to go with them. The vehicles ordered by DPO are the first electric Solaris buses to make an appearance on Czech streets. ...