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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...

Irizar e-mobility starts the year with two new awards. Beyond the Ecological Industrial Vehicle of the Year 2021 won by the waste collection truck Irizar ie truck, the new generation of the 12-metre Irizar ie bus has earned the Bus of the Year 2021 award in Spain. Ten units were recently delivered i...

61,000 new energy buses were sold by Chinese bus makers during 2020. The bus production in China accounted for around 150,000 units. Both the total bus market and the new energy bus market in China went down 20% compared with 2019. It’s the second year in a row showing a decrease in production...

Battery analytics software company Twaice is now a member of the EBA250, the industrial development programme of the European Battery Alliance. The goal of the European Battery Alliance is to ensure that all Europeans benefit from safer traffic, cleaner vehicles and more sustainable technological so...

New Flyer announced that the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) has awarded the bus producer a contract for 12 Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric, forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses, with options to purchase up to 63 additional zero-emission buses in thirty-five or forty-foot lengths th...

All Transport for London 9,000 buses now meet or exceed the cleanest Euro VI emissions standards. Around 4,000 London buses have been retrofitted to reduce harmful nitrogen oxide levels by an average of 90 per cent. And TfL now to focus on growing its zero-emission bus network (in 2020 34 Caetano ba...

A contract for 1,002 pure electric buses in Bogota (Colombia) has been awarded to BYD, making 1,472 the number of e-buses from the Chinese manufacturer headed to the capital city. The Chinese manufacturer announced a few days ago the major contract. The tender was open to all bus technologies. This ...

This week ten Irizar ie bus vehicles were put into operation in Strasbourg, on line No. 10. Another 15 will join the network in February and the remaining 24 electric buses are expected to be delivered in May. The roadmap of the delivery, following the contract signed in October 2020, has been expla...

Moscow Transport is introducing innovations to turn buses into e-buses with better productivity. The Moscow-based company NPP ITELMA presented an IT-platform for electric bus manufacturers. The developers promise to reduce energy consumption of electric vehicles by 25% and increase power reserve of ...