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1,600 zero emission buses (and 110 biomethane-powered ones) financed in Germany: the Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing has awarded grants amounting to 600 million euros (part of the 1.25 billion plan announced last year) within the new “Directive on the promotion of alternative drive s...

Everfuel has been awarded contract for constructing and commissioning of a heavy-duty hydrogen refuelling station in Wuppertal, Germany. After a European-wide tendering procedure, WSW mobil GmbH has awarded Everfuel GmbH the contract for a hydrogen refuelling station that will serve a fleet of fuel ...

In 2021 Industria Italiana Autobus ranked first in the Italian city bus market. The company, backed by the Italian State, has a portfolio ranging on different technologies, with a focus on CNG and LNG alternative drive buses. In November 2021 IIA launched its first battery-electric bus, the IIA City...

An order from Hamburg bring to over 700 the number of MAN electric buses on order so far. According to the German group, “90 percent of MAN city buses will be delivered with battery drive by 2030”. Hamburger Hochbahn AG and Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein GmbH (VHH) placed an order for...

TMB has put into service, for the first time in Spain, a fuel cell bus on a public transport network. On Thursday 7 April, users of line X1 will be able to travel with this innovative zero-emission vehicle, produced by CaetanoBus, which is loaded at Iberdrola’s green hydrogen plant. Tomorrow T...

With a series of 16 new generation VDL Citea, VDL Bus & Coach is expanding its long-standing co-operation with KVG Braunschweig (Kraftverkehrsgesellschaft mbH Braunschweig). The operator is indeed going to get a series of 16 new generation Citeas in 2023. The vehicles, of type LF-122 are based e...

A contribution by Prof. Paul Christensen, Claudius Jehle, Alex Johns, Paul Markham published on February 2022 issue of Sustainable Bus magazine. The 1950s through 1980s saw a drive towards increasing the energy density and size of steam turbines from c. 150MW to 600MW – and several severe incidents ...

Transdev inaugurates 406 new electric buses in the city of Bogota, enabling the city to maintain the largest electric bus fleet in Latin America, adding to an existing fleet of 1,061 electric buses. The buses are operated by the Fanalca-Transdev joint venture through its company GREEN MOVIL. Directl...

The 111 electric buses launched yesterday bring to 206 the number of electric buses in operation around Schiphol airport, Amsterdam. The debut in operation was celebrated yesterday by the transport authority Vervoerregio Amsterdam and the operator Transdev Nederland – Connexxion. They’ll...

Bus and rail services together via a single QR code, thanks to a collaboration between First Bus, Great West Railway (GWR) and the ticket machine provider Ticketer. Passengers can now purchase a rail and PlusBus ticket for their complete journey with First Bus and GWR for travel to and around Weston...