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Voith and PCS Holding signed an agreement to acquire TSA. The German company, together with the Swiss holding, are planning to take over a combined 59% of the shares in Traktionssysteme Austria GmbH with its headquarters in Wiener Neudorf. A corresponding purchase contract was signed on April 29, 20...

Wiener Linien, Vienna‘s public transport operator, plans to have 82 zero emission buses on the roads by 2027. Next year a tender for 62 battery-electric and 10 hydrogen buses will be launched. And in 2024 it’ll be the turn of electric minibuses (which are already a common sight around th...

by Stefano Alfano Trolleybuses have been chosen to play a major role in the future organization of Genoa public transport network. In fact, they are at the heart of the Italian city government’s projects. The city will soon receive 14 battery-electric buses, and in the meanwhile is planning a ...

A spray for bus disinfection. Marcopolo deploys an ad-hoc biosafety solution to reduce infection’s risks. The solution was developed by Marcopolo Next, a division of Marcopolo focused on innovation, in collaboration with Aurratech. The result? The FIP Onboard (FIP stands for ‘fog in plac...

In the EU bus market, electric bus registrations increased by 170.5% from 594 units in 2018 to 1,607 buses sold in 2019. 85% of all new buses in European Union in 2019 were diesel-fuelled, with electric vehicles making up 4.0% of total new bus registrations. The figures coming from ACEA (European Au...

More hydrogen buses and a brand new depot for RVK Köln (Cologne, Germany). A procurement for up to 36 additional hydrogen buses and the construction of the new depot have been deliberated in late March, the regional public transport company announces today. Now the project “Grüner Mobilhof GL&...

Jo Bamford, Wrightbus new owner, has plans for the rollout of no less than 3,000 hydrogen buses in the UK by 2024, all built in Ballymena. To this extent, Bamford, who also leads a green hydrogen production company named Ryse, asked the government to «unlock the UK’s hydrogen industry» address...

The Optare Metrodeck H2 is a new add to the offer of hydrogen bus for UK (and international) markets. The launch of the new city bus model was announced yesterday (27 April). The fuel cell powertrain has been developed by the Liverpool-based company Arcola Energy, so that the bus stands out for bein...

The Solaris Urbino 15 LE Electric is on the launching pad. A 15-meter variant of the Solaris Urbino LE Electric will be launched by the end of this year, the Polish manufacturer announced. The tri-axle bus is mainly addressed to customers of the Scandinavian market and will be equipped, for the firs...

Ebusco got a follow-up order from Belgium for a batch of e-buses to be in operation from mid-2021 with De Lijn’s livery. Ten vehicles are part of this just-awarded order coming from Multiobus, De Lijn’s subcontractor, for Flanders’ inner-city and regional traffic in the Flemish Brabant r...