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Autonomous shuttles in Gothenburg in the framework of a pilot managed by Keolis. On 18 January 2021 the public transport company began testing autonomous electric vehicles in the Swedish city on behalf of local PTA Västtrafik. The vehicles are made by French company Navya. This service, which is int...

Transdev Alpes Maritimes and the airport of Nice (Nice Côte d’Azur Airport), France’s 2nd largest airport platform, have been operating since November 2019 a first batch of 3 electric shuttles. The Mercedes eCitaro battery-electric buses transport passengers 7 days a week, from 4:30 am t...

Stadtwerke München (SWM) has commissioned PSI Transcom with the delivery of the depot management system PSIebus for electric buses. This will digitize the processes at the depots in Moosach and Ost enabling better organization of the provision of vehicles and then supporting SWM in its goal of offer...

The Polish supplier of charging devices has once again won a tender issued by RATP and is implementing one of the largest contracts for charging infrastructure for electric buses in Europe. Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens ordered as many as 274 chargers with a total capacity of 24.5 MW. Ekoe...

Anna Westerberg has been appointed as president Volvo Buses and new member of Volvo Group Management. The information has been made public by Volvo Group today 19 January 2021. Anna Westerberg will take on her position as of February 1st, 2021. Anna Westerberg new president Volvo Buses The departure...

The Finnish city of Lahti, this year’s European Green Capital, will have the first VDL Citea new generation Citea at its disposal. Koiviston Auto Group was the first to order this new e-bus from VDL Bus & Coach, entirely based on an electric driveline.  VDL, the new generation Citea goes to Laht...

The public transport operator of Wiesbaden chose Caetano to deliver 10 hydrogen buses in the last quarter of 2021. In Germany the Portuguese producer has already been selected as the supplier to deliver four hydrogen buses to Bielefeld’s Transport Company and supplied two hydrogen buses to the eFarm...

Delivery in Italy, a new deal in Romania. Time of trolleybus news for Solaris Bus & Coach. The first three of the ten new trolleybuses purchased by TEP Parma (Italy) have started operation in late 2020. The vehicles are running on Line 1 and are supported by a battery with enough capacity in ord...

CDC Victoria’s locally built Volvo hybrid buses will be fitted with technology innovation to achieve the goal of zero emissions in designated zones of Melbourne (Australia).  The aim is to make Victoria’s public transport network greener and more sustainable, following the launch of Volvo’s Zone Man...

Denmark, Luxembourg, Netherlands lead the way on emissions-free buses. Transport & Environment has realized a chart, based on data from Chatrou – CME Solutions, that shows the share of zero emission buses registered in 2019 in the European countries (a year with over 1,600 e-bus registrati...