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Yutong announced today it has received a record order for as many as 1,002 buses (yes, you read it correctly). 741 of them will be electric, making it the largest order of EV buses ever. The contract comes from Mowasalat, the Qatar public transport company, that will provide commuting services for t...

Turkish bus producer Temsa has for the first time exported its battery-electric bus model MD9 electriCITY. Six vehicles, built in the company’s Adana facilities, will been soon delivered in Sweden. They will be used in and around Öckerö Island. The news is made public by Temsa itself through a...

Transdev has signed a contract with Solaris Bus & Coach to supply two hydrogen buses. The vehicles will roll out onto the streets of the Swedish city of Sandviken in autumn 2021. They’ll be the first hydrogen buses to be operated on the Swedish public transport system. Transdev signing the...

Irizar is ready to launch CNG and LNG intercity buses and coaches (with Scania chassis). The first vehicle that will be brought to market will be the Irizar i4 CNG, a Class II bus in the version H with 12,920 mm length. But the range of vehicles soon equipped with gas drives is much wider. […...

Traktionssysteme Austria (TSA) announces it has taken another step to secure the manufacturing figures of electric drivetrains in terms of quality and volume. After three years of evaluating various technical solutions, TSA’s CEOs Günter Eichhübl and Robert Tencl signed the contract for a testing fa...

A joint shuttle service with electric buses will connect, by 2024, a network of hotel in Haarlemmermeer with Schiphol airport. The new emission-free airport hotel shuttle bus service has been announced by the municipality of Haarlemmermeer, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Koninklijke Horeca Nederland...

Hispacold announces its air purifier for buses, named ‘eco3’ has proven more than 99.7% effective against SARS-CoV-2. Tests have been carried out by the Biological Defence Area at the CBN Defence Systems Department of the National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA), a subdivision o...

At MAN’s plant in Starachowice, Poland, series production of battery-powered city buses was successfully launched at the beginning of October, MAN announces. The first customer vehicle to come off the assembly line is the 12 metre solo version of the Lion’s City E. These will be heading off to...

Siemens charging infrastructures are installed in West London electric bus depot. Siemens Smart Infrastructure provided the infrastructure for 37 new fully-electric double decker buses in London deployed by Tower Transit (SeaLink Travel Group). They are ‘fed’ with 11 megawatt hours daily...

RNV is taking the next step towards an increasing deployment of zero emission buses. 15 battery-electric buses to be delivered in 2020 with an option for another batch of 15 for hand over in 2021: this is the goal of a European call for tender which ended up with the awarding to Daimler Buses. Furth...