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In Santiago de Chile there is room for a third Chinese manufacturer. While BYD and Yutong have already completed the delivery of large fleets of battery-electric buses (BYD received one year ago a follow-up order for 183 vehicles), Foton AUV is currently supplying a further batch of 215 e-buses. For...

Keolis Chairman Patrick Jeantet has been dismissed by the Supervisory Board after just four months at the helm of the French public transport company. Keolis Supervisory Board «has noted significant strategic differences with the Chairman of the Executive Board, Patrick Jeantet, since he took office...

TMB will welcome in its fleet 8 fuel cell buses, and a filling station will be built thanks to a cooperation between the public transport company and the Zona Franca Consortium. The tender for the vehicles is currently underway. Zona Franca Consortium (CZFB) and Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona...

FIAA trade exhibition, organised by IFEMA, keeps its dates and will take place from the 6 to 9 October at Feria de Madrid. Anyhow, «if due to reasons of force majeure it cannot be held, the event has an alternative already planned. The final decision will be taken in early July» the organizers highl...

The electric commercial vehicles market in North America is poised to grow heavily in the next three years. Anyhow, the transit electric bus market will apparently not be the most affected by the trend, that will see interesting developments particularly in the heavy-duty truck field. The number of ...

London: Abellio and Zenobe Energy, a leading UK owner and operator of battery storage, today announce the launch of an electric fleet of buses, following an order with CaetanoBus secured in summer 2019. This week saw the first five buses operate on route P5, helping to improve air quality in areas a...

The German strategy on hydrogen gets the appreciation of the national transport association VDV, that consider hydrogen buses a feasible alternative for public transport services on long routes. The industry organization in fact welcomes the National Hydrogen Strategy adopted today in the Federal Ca...

Brakar in Norway has awarded a contract for bus services in Hemsedal and Hallingdal to Vy Buss AS. Today, the area is divided into three contracts, but Brakar said it has chosen to merge the entire area in order to get more competition. 34 buses are part of the contract: 10 of them will be converted...

New electric and commercial success for Volvo Buses in the home country Sweden: earlier this year, Vy Buss AB ordered 49 high-capacity Volvo 7900 Electric Articulated buses, the manufacturer points out. The new electric bus units, which are scheduled to enter operation in Jönköping, in summer 2021, ...

Silicon carbide semiconductors from Cree will contribute to power Yutong electric buses. The Chinese manufacturer will in fact deliver in China its first electric bus to use such technology. Cree has announced that its own 1200V silicon carbide devices are included in a StarPower power module for Yu...