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11 battery-electric buses from Heuliez Bus have been delivered in Norway, where the operator Tide Buss has chosen the French manufacturer for the supply of zero emission vehicles in Trondheim, known as a pioneer city in sustainable transportation with the largest electric bus fleet in Norway. It&#82...

ABB has been appointed to provide more than 100 chargers for the Qbuzz fleet in the Netherlands. 62 charging stations have been installed within the Groningen/Drenthe concession (where also Heliox is involved), while 38 further chargers have been put in place within the DMG Dordrecht concession, in ...

Safra hydrogen buses will be provided to Greater Auxerre Municipality. The contract includes both the supply and full maintenance of the new bus fleet. Each bus will be in charge of some 200,000 km per year. Safra is going to ramp up the production of the hydrogen bus range, as 22 units are today on...

By 2025 the electric bus market in India is foreseen to reach over 7,000 units with a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 53 % in the period 2018 – 2025. The investments will be mainly driven by Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles (FAME) scheme. And buses with a length und...

Battery-electric buses have been launched in Glasgow. Friday 10th January 2020 has been the first day on the road for the two 10.8-meter zero emission vehicles produced by the joint venture between ADL and BYD. The novelty has made First Glasgow the city’s first commercial bus operator to introduce ...

Arriva Touring has been awarded the service of passenger transport at and around Schiphol airport, in Amsterdam. The tender won by Arriva’s division focuses on the bus services between gates and aicraft, as well as the parking shuttles. The new contract will start in April 2020. The news is re...

Grupo Ruiz gets a financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB) targeted at the modernization of bus fleet. 27.5 million euros will be invested in 173 low-emission vehicles, 32 of them being electric. Therefore, advantages in terms of quality and environmental impact will fall on the public tran...

A bus line extended to the airport, by means of a brand new fuel cell bus. Regionalverkehr Köln (RVK), the public transport operator of Cologne, in Germany, has lengthen the bus line 423 to the Cologne-Bonn airport. According to RVK plans, this will increase the number of passengers using public tra...

Keolis (in consortium with Autocars Dominique’s subsidiary BE Green) will be operating a 100 per cent electric bus route in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. At the beginning the line will be operated via Zeus electric minibuses, but according to the French magazine Bus&Car, they’ll ...

Mumbai aims to bring in operation 340 electric buses (140 12-meter and 200 midibuses). To this extent, a Request for proposal has been issued by the Brihan-Mumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST) on 30th December. The tender has been floated under the FAME India Phase-II phase in the...