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On 9th January Flix has announced a change in the line-up of its top management: Benjamin Gubitz will become the company’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), succeeding to Christoph Debus, who is to become the new CEO of the DERTOUR Group and will join Flix’s Supervisory Board as of March 1st. &#822...

Arriva Italy, on 31 December 2024, has published a call for tenders (expiring on 31 January) for the supply of 10 electric buses and option for a further 10, divided into two lots. They are headed to the area of Cremona, in northern Italy. The news is reported on Italian trade media (and our sister ...

CaetanoBus has delivered EMT Madrid‘s first 10 electric hydrogen-powered buses in late December. The buses were presented as ready to start operations in the Spanish capital. CaetanoBus states it has sold over 200 fuel cell buses so far to various European cities in Europe, mainly in Germany, ...

Fribourg public transport company TPF, in Switzerland, announces it has ordered 24 Mercedes eCitaro electric buses. They are set for delivery in December 2026. This first order will be followed by others, TPF adds, as the carrier has committed to purchasing a minimum of 35 and a maximum of 183 eCita...

“The fire was not related to hydrogen or its use.” This clarification comes from Yannick Monnier, Director of the Régie des transports du Territoire de Belfort, following the incident that destroyed seven hydrogen-powered buses at the Optymo depot in Danjoutin on January 2nd 2025. In his interview w...

Busworld Europe 2025 is not that close. However, as previews about products to be on launch at the expo in Brussels in October 2025 are being announced, here we are collecting an overview of the major releases visitors might expect from the largest bus and coach exhibition worldwide, running from fr...

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that $100 million in state funding is available to help transit providers expand their use of zero-emission vehicles. The funding is being provided through the State’s Zero-Emission Transit Transition Program (ZETT). In 2020 the same state launche...

Skoda announces it won a 40-units trolleybuses tender in Tallin (with option for further 30). Vehicles will be deployed by carrier Aktsiaselts Tallinna Linnatransport, which provides transportation in the Estonian capital, in the Baltic region. According to the signed contract, the Czech company wil...

One tender, two lots, 35 trolleybuses with IMC (In Motion Charging) technology (with an option for a further 35) and 19 BEV buses: this is included in the newest TPER Bologna’s tender aiming at going ahead with its fleet renewal plan in the name of electric traction. The total value of the ten...

Autonomous vehicle technology provider May Mobility has entered a partnership with Italian minibus manufacturer Tecnobus, thus extended its portfolio of AV use cases at CES 2025 (live from 7 to 12 January in Las Vegas). The partnership is set to introduce a new autonomous minibus platform based on t...