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IAA Commercial Vehicles 2020 cancelled. It was in the air, now (as of 6 May) it’s official. The pandemic of Covid19 takes away the IAA Hanover. The exhibition scheduled at the Hannover Fair from 24 to 30 September has been cancelled and re-scheduled, confirming the biennial frequency, to 2022....

Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe, in Germany, opts for VDL Bus & Coach for its first electric bus order. 21 vehicles have been recently ordered, as the public transport company LVB announced on Monday 4 May. The new electric buses will be 12 meter long and the delivery is planned within this year. The...

A new actor shows up on the North American stage of electric bus manufacturers. Gillig, indeed, in May 2019 took the opportunity of the APTA (American Public Transportation Association) conference to announce the launch of its first 12-meter electric bus, after a premiere held at the end of April. D...

Intel announced yesterday it has acquired Moovit, a mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) solutions company, for approximately $900 million ($840 million net of Intel Capital equity gain) and therefore brings Intel’s Mobileye closer to achieving its plan to become a complete mobility provider, including robo...

Following the order for 20 vehicles from Solaris, Connexxion put on the road its first fuel cell bus for the concession Hoeksche Waard-Goeree Overflakkee. And, surprise! It carries VDL Bus & Coach‘s logo. The Dutch manufacturer, Connexxion points out, will deliver a batch of four hydrogen ...

Voith and PCS Holding signed an agreement to acquire TSA. The German company, together with the Swiss holding, are planning to take over a combined 59% of the shares in Traktionssysteme Austria GmbH with its headquarters in Wiener Neudorf. A corresponding purchase contract was signed on April 29, 20...

Wiener Linien, Vienna‘s public transport operator, plans to have 82 zero emission buses on the roads by 2027. Next year a tender for 62 battery-electric and 10 hydrogen buses will be launched. And in 2024 it’ll be the turn of electric minibuses (which are already a common sight around th...

by Stefano Alfano Trolleybuses have been chosen to play a major role in the future organization of Genoa public transport network. In fact, they are at the heart of the Italian city government’s projects. The city will soon receive 14 battery-electric buses, and in the meanwhile is planning a ...

A spray for bus disinfection. Marcopolo deploys an ad-hoc biosafety solution to reduce infection’s risks. The solution was developed by Marcopolo Next, a division of Marcopolo focused on innovation, in collaboration with Aurratech. The result? The FIP Onboard (FIP stands for ‘fog in plac...

In the EU bus market, electric bus registrations increased by 170.5% from 594 units in 2018 to 1,607 buses sold in 2019. 85% of all new buses in European Union in 2019 were diesel-fuelled, with electric vehicles making up 4.0% of total new bus registrations. The figures coming from ACEA (European Au...