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Busworld North America is under preparation. The first edition of the new exhibition will be held in January 28-30, 2021 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore (Maryland), United States. This first Busworld North America will follow exactly 1 year after the inaugural seminar Busworld Academ...

There’s one country in Europe where hybrid technology applied to buses is particolarly alive and kicking. It’s Belgium, where the company De Lijn is based and operation. Lately, the group has issued a mega-order for no less than 200 VDL Citea hybrid, thus continuing its good cooperation ...

A commuter bus service operated through two double-decker buses fueled with biodiesel. Keolis (or, being specific, its subsidiary Keolis Sverige) has been awarded a new contract in Sweden, between Gothenburg and Boras, covering 65km and starting from December 2020. The service will provide a service...

Arriva Group is on track to be listed on the Stock Exchange. Rumors have been circulating for a long time so far (besides they were much more than rumors…). Arriva was expected to be sold by the end of 2019. Three funds were said to be interested in the purchase. Now the scenario looks very [&...

Europe’s largest electric bus order goes to…. BYD. Yes, we know: we wrote it (and you read it…) plenty of time so far. Just a few weeks ago, Volvo Buses announced a 157 electric bus order in Sweden. Indeed: Europe’s largest electric bus order. At that time. Now it’s BYD...

Scania bus LNG-powered has made its way to Bologna. The first LNG buses in Europe have been delivered in the Italian city. And this could set the beginning of a new era for intercity buses. The Scania bus Interlink LD LNG displayed today, the first batch of a 15-units order, will be operated by the ...

20 battery-electric buses plus 10 trolleybuses. It’s an ‘holistic’ group of contracts the one signed by Lublin public transport authority ZTM with Solaris Bus & Coach. The value of the orders exceeds PLN 106 millions (over 24 million euros). Following this purchase, half of Lub...

The battery-electric coach has technical problems, the pilot is being discontinued. It is what FlixBus managing director DACH Fabian Stenger said to the regional newspaper Mannheimer Morgen with regards to the electric line launched in October 2018 between Frankfurt and Mannheim and operated through...

The first Iveco e-Way just started operations in Genoa (Italy) in the framework of a pilot. It’s the very first time of a battery-electric bus featuring Iveco’s logo. The bus, essentially, is the Heuliez GX 337 Elec, which is going through a re-branding process started at Busworld 2019, ...

Battery cost is bound to fall below $100/kWh by 2024. It used to be, averagely, above $1,100 per kilowatt-hour in 2010. The decrease in battery costs has not ended yet: prices have fallen 87% in real terms to $156/kWh in 2019. All these figures come from the BNEF’s 2019 Battery Price Survey from res...