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After the order secured yesterday with Stagecoach, ADL BYD has announced today an order from First Bus for a further 126 zero-emission buses for Glasgow, comprising 91 double deck and 35 single deck buses. All are part-funded by the Scottish Government. The order is the largest ever for electric bus...

Forsee Power announces the opening of an office in Japan. The new Forsee Power office is located in Tokyo and hosted by the Group’s Japanese shareholder Mitsui & Co., Ltd., one of the most diversified and comprehensive trading, investment, and service enterprises in the world, who joined Forsee ...

Stagecoach has ordered 46 BYD ADL electric buses for its fleets in Scotland. The 24 single deck and 22 double deck buses have been part-funded by the Scottish Government and will be deployed in the operator’s fleets in Aberdeen, Perth and Kilmarnock. ADL – BYD recently announced that additiona...

Electric buses increased to a share of 6.1% of the registrations in Europe, while diesel vehicles decreased almost 10 percentage points from 2019 to 72.9%. The figures released by ACEA take into consideration all the new medium and heavy buses (over 3.5 tonnes) registered in the European Union, then...

The Luxembourg passenger transport and tourism company Voyages Emile Weber (VEW) has awarded the PSI subsidiary Moveo Software GmbH (subsidiary of PSI) with the delivery of the personnel dispatching system Moveo Profahr as well as the integrated depot and charging management system PSIebus. VEW has ...

The population of Amman will benefit from the introduction of a new bus fleet in the Jordanian capital thanks to its participation in EBRD Green Cities, the Bank’s pioneering urban sustainability programme A €14.8 million loan will be provided for 15 electric and 136 Euro V diesel buses. EBRD financ...

A new order from Sweden (12 vehicles to be delivered in Uppsala) has been secured. The first regular service operations for the MAN Lion’s City 18 E have begun these days: the articulated battery-electric bus can now be seen on the streets of Cologne every day. MAN Truck & Bus handed over the fi...

Paving the way for electrification of bus fleets by operating batteries on behalf of the operator. The UK-based company Zenobe Energy is protagonist of some significant key studies. Take London, where 34 e-buses were put in operation last year leveraging on an innovative financing scheme: Zenobe Ene...

Yesterday Arrival became a Nasdaq listed public company, with plans to use approximately $660 million in gross proceeds to ramp up delivery of its electric vehicles (Arrival bus included) and expand its global network of Microfactories. Arrival will be ringing the Nasdaq’s opening bell on Monday 29t...

Métropole Rouen Normandie has ordered a batch of 10 Mercedes eCitaro. “We’re putting our trust in 100 % electrified buses,” announces Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, Chair of Métropole Rouen Normandie. The region in north-west France consists of the city of Rouen and 70 predominantly smal...