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Along with the first orders of battery-electric buses (with 23 vehicles ordered in early 2020), TMB Barcelona bets on gas-powered hybrid buses. A tender for 46 buses is out, the operator announces. 16 of them will be articulated. Last year, TMB Barcelona secured an order for as many of 105 MAN Lion&...

13 Yutong electric buses are headed to Leicester, where they’ll be “dressed up” with Roberts Travel Group’s livery and will convert the three park-and-ride services of the city to zero emission operations. The vehicles will be delivered by the dealer Pelican Bus & Coach. ...

130 million dollars grants for the purchase or lease of zero and low emission transit buses for the USA, with related charging facilities. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced a massive funding through the Low- or No-Emission (Low-No) Grant p...

Navya recruits Pierre Lahutte to speed up the industrialization of driverless applications. The French company of electric and autonomous driving systems just announced the strengthening of its management team with the appointment of Pierre Lahutte as Chief Strategy & Development Officer. Lahutt...

57 units are already in the order book. And the European tour continues. After tests held in Polish, German and Italian cities, the hydrogen bus Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen has now been presented in Vienna. Wiener Linien, one of the biggest public transport operators in Europe, has added the hydrogen...

Ebusco announces a regional partnership with Australian Bus Corporation aimed at the commercialization of the Ebusco 3.0 on the Australian market. The partnership will have the Ebusco 3.0 in the spotlight: the bus was launched at Busworld 2019. Its serial production, it was released, is scheduled to...

Euro Bus Expo 2020 will be postponed to 2021. Euro Bus Expo organiser Diversified Communications UK today confirms that this year’s event has been postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. The UK’s only dedicated trade show for the coach, bus and mini vehicle sector will now be hel...

Transdev puts its mark on Sweden and Netherlands. The French group has signed a series of public transport contract worth 1.2 billion euros in the Scandinavian country. These deals concern both traditional transportation modes (buses, trains) and innovative ones, with focus on battery-electric and h...

European Energy Efficiency Fund (eeef) and Dancer manufacturer announce that they have established the company Dancer Mobility to provide all-inclusive operational lease services of electric buses manufactured in Lithuania to public authorities. The company is the outcome of an investment made toget...

MPK Poznań bus fleet, by the end of 2021, will be featuring a total of 58 electric buses, according to the order just secured with Solaris for 37 Urbino Electric. These vehicles will 21 units already delivered. The new order is made of 31 12-meter buses and 6 articulated vehicles. Value? Over 90 mil...