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13 Volvo electric buses 7900 will start operating on route 7 in Malmö from mid-December. The vehicles are part of one of the biggest investments ever in all-electric bus traffic in Sweden. The buses, deployed by Nobina, are equipped with fast charging systems and are charged at the end stations of t...

Up the curtain on the first electric buses Irizar ie tram for Barcelona. That will also be the first ie tram in real public transport operation. Yesterday (Friday 30th November), Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) and representatives of Irizar e-mobility officially unveiled four battery ele...

100 percent electric bus fleet by 2030. Californian public transport company Santa Barbara MTD’s Board of Directors has adopted this goal for the transition to a full electric fleet. 14 out of 112 buses of MTD’s fleet are already zero emission: the operator prides itself to boasts the second l...

Xuemei Bai, a leading expert and thought leader on urbanization and sustainability, receives the Volvo Environment Prize 2018. More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and the trend keeps growing at an unprecedented rate. In future we will need drastically different ways of planning...

ADL adds the fuel cell bus to its range, that already include diesel, hybrids and battery electric buses, the last powered by BYD. The technology has been developed on an Enviro400 double deck bus which has delivered best-in-class performance during route shadowing trials, says Alexander Dennis Limi...

The Baltic town of Jūrmala in Latvia has just purchased two electric buses by Solaris. The zero-emission Urbino 8.9 LE electric will hit the roads of the resort town in the third quarter of 2019. These will be the first electric buses of Solaris not only in Latvia, but also in all of the Baltic Stat...

Santiago electric aims don’t rely only on BYD. Yutong, indeed, also provided to Chile capitol city as many as 100 electric buses E12. The same amount of vehicles already ordered to BYD. Having sent more than 20,000 vehicles to Latin America over the past 15 years, Yutong has become the largest...

Taking into account external costs (health and climate), electric buses already offer a lower TCO than diesel. On the other hand, the mere economic calculation, thus excluding external costs, shows that a diesel bus today remains more economical than an electric one. It is the result of an in-depth ...

30 fuel cell buses by Hyundai will be delivered to six South Korean cities and used for public transport services. Seoul government recently said that the first pilot in the capital city has already started. And five other major cities will join next year, starting in March. In total, 30 fuel cell b...

Work in progress for the first autonomous bus public service with 12 meters vehicles (not shuttle buses, a field where driverless technologies are already being tested some years). The first autonomous bus fleet experiment, funded by UK government with £4.35 million, will be held in Scotland, thanks...