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An hydrogen bus fleet is beginning operation with the livery of Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) in Santa Ana, California. The vehicles, model New Flyer Xcelsior CHARGE H2, were delivered a few days ago following the order signed in early 2018. The vehicle was announced to have complete...

Iveco Bus and Heuliez Bus sales team are joining together. The news, visible already at Busworld Brussels in October 2019 (where Heuliez Bus zero emission bus range was announced to be rebranded as Iveco e-Way). On 31 January, as reported on the French media Mobilités Magazine, Iveco France announce...

Turin, 2021. That days, one bus out of five in the city is expected to be electrically powered. On 30th January a European call for tender has been published for 100 electric bus units. They’ll run under the livery of the public transport operator GTT. The supply goes along with a 10 year full...

First electric charger made in Portugal has been delivered to Baden-Baden, where it’ll be powering the electric buses serving the city. The German group announced that Siemens Portugal exported the first electric charger produced at its Corroios plant. Siemens expects to produce 1,400 chargers...

Subsidies for electric buses. Green light from the European Commission: German fundings for e-buses grow up to 650 million euros. The European Commission approved an increase of 300 million. The German aid scheme is valid until the end of 2021 and covers the additional costs of purchasing electrical...

The first announcements from Alstom date back to spring 2017. Launch of the Aptis followed at Busworld 2017. In March 2019 the first order. At Busworld 2019 the public had the chance to see and touch the first series vehicle. Now the time for deliveries has started. Alstom is handing over the very f...

Volvo gets 60 further battery-electric buses ordered in Sweden. Nobina has just commissioned 60 Volvo 7900 Electric Articulated for Malmö. The city has already started to get experienced with e-buses: a first batch of 13 Volvo 7900 Electric started operation in late 2018. And in November 2019 the ma...

Translink is investing 4 million pounds for the purchase of its first hydrogen buses. The Northern Ireland’s public transport operator, as BBC reports, has in fact placed an order for three vehicles, with support by the government’s Office for Low Emission Vehicles. Translink buys hydrog...

The Republic of Ireland will receive up to 600 double-decker plug-in hybrid buses ADL Enviro 400ER. A first firm order for 100 buses is already underway. The deal has been announced today by Alexander Dennis Limited, who will therefore deliver hundreds of Enviro400ER, capable of running in zero emis...

It’s no novelty that Forsee Power is partnering with CaetanoBus for the battery-electric buses manufactured by the Portuguese company. Now the French supplier (which also equips Heuliez Bus and Alstom e-buses) announces that it has been involved also in the realization of the hydrogen bus Caet...