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Contactless payment options have been introduced on Clean Air Express buses and on a selection of Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District (MTD) buses on July 26, 2021. The tap-to-ride system uses cutting-edge fare payment technology provided by specialist partners Littlepay, Kuba, Cybersource, a...

Birmingham City Council has unveiled the first of its 20 new fuel cell bus fleet, which is set to be in operation later this year. The order was signed in autumn 2020. The new buses have been purchased as part of the Council’s Clean Air Hydrogen Bus Pilot, which looks to ‘kick-start’ the hydrogen ma...

Bluebus is expected to deliver up to 158 electric buses in Paris, following the maxi tender awarded in 2019 and the 2021 framework agreement just signed for a maximum period of 4 years. The French company won the tender together with Heuliez Bus / Iveco and Alstom. Earlier this year, also in the fra...

Solaris has just signed a contract with operator PKM Jaworzno for the supply of 6 Solaris Urbino 18 electric buses. The vehicles will hit the streets of Jaworzno within one year of the contract being signed. Back in 2015, Jaworzno was the first town in Poland to put an e-bus, the Solaris Urbino 12 e...

Microvast goes public. The battery manufacturer commenced trading on the Nasdaq on July 26 under the ticker ‘MVST’. The company has completed the business combination with Tuscan Holdings, resulting in the new name ‘Microvast Holdings, Inc.’ Founded in Houston in 2006, Microvast develops b...

Irizar e-mobility has signed an agreement with the RATP (La Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens) to supply as many as 113 electric buses in Paris. They will be new generation Irizar ie bus model 100% zero emissions electric buses. Irizar is staying firmly committed to the French market. In 2016,...

Holistic approach. Paradigm shift. Evolving company skills. These are issues that remain firmly implied – when they are not made explicit – while talking with Petra Piffer, general manager of SASA Bolzano, the public transport company that embodies the subject of the transition to hydrog...

ARBOC buses now available in hybrid version. The NFI subsidiary is partnering with XL Fleet to offer a parallel hybrid electric bus option. The XL Hybrid system can immediately be ordered as an option on ARBOC Freedom low-floor buses sold through ARBOC’s North American dealer network, NFI makes...

One hundred Toyota hydrogen buses are running around Olympic Tokyo. But costs are an issue. As the Financial Times points out, «A fuel cell bus from Toyota costs ¥100m ($900,000) for a six-year lease. A diesel bus costs ¥24m ($220,000) and has a useful life of 15 years». Fuel cell buses during the O...

A batch of 10 New Flyer electric buses has been ordered in California by the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA). OCTA serves 34 cities within Orange County, California, providing transportation to the state’s third-largest county and supporting nearly 40 million passengers per year. The P...