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27 Latin American cities and 1,229 electric buses in operation (413 of them are in Santiago de Chile), i.e. 1.27% of the total bus fleet in the considered cities. The Laboratório de Mobilidade Sustentável (LABMOB) has today launched the E-BUS RADAR platform in partnership with the ZEBRA project, whi...

15 BYD K9UB electric buses are now part of EMT Madrid fleet. Yesterday’s handover ceremony marks the first time that BYD has supplied vehicles to EMT Madrid, Spain’s largest public transport provider operating 2,100 vehicles. The new electric bus vehicles will be deployed on a new perimeter li...

Two Caetano H2.City Gold hydrogen buses will start operation later this year in Germany in the framework of eFarm project. The hydrogen bus bus has been launched at Busworld 2019 in Brussels. 2020 was then announced to be the year of the commercialization in Europe of the H2.City Gold, based on Toyo...

Busworld India 2020 has been rescheduled to October 2020. The exhibition was supposed to take place in August at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) in Bengaluru. New dates are: 6 – 8 October 2020 at the same venue. This year, for the first time, Busworld India will be organized by ...

The MAN Lion’s City 18 E is on the launching pad. Sales of the articulated electric bus by MAN started back in April 2020. Main features: up to 120 passengers on board (at full capacity), two electric central motors, a stated electric bus range of 200 km (and up to 270 km in favourable conditions) [...

Around Nuremberg’s streets, in Germany, it is operating since the beginning of this year the first electric articulated bus equipped with a Konvekta CO2 heat pump, with the livery of VAG public transport company. The system made by Konvekta was launched in 2018. At the beginning the CO2 heat p...

Bus disinfection practices have become an imperative in this period of spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, and will remain so in the post-Coronavirus period. This is made clear in the national guidelines for public transport and also, as of February 2020, in the UITP Factsheet “Management of Covi...

The Coronavirus outbreak is having a massive impact on public transport systems. Users have plummeted, and so are ticket revenues. And public transport will have to cope over a long period of time with a decrease in passenger capacity due to social distancing measures, and users disaffection due to ...

A few days after the announce of the forthcoming introduction of BYD electric passengers cars in Europe, starting from Norway, the Chinese group secured a new commercial success in Scandinavia, on the bus side. BYD has in fact received an order for a further 13 eBuses from Nobina.  The new 12-metre ...

Airfield buses become electric in China. Yutong has just delivered a batch of 12 electric airfield buses in Beijing to China Eastern Airlines. This contract stands out for being Yutong’s largest single order of electric airfield buses. In Europe, Brussels airport opted for electric buses for shuttle...