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ATM, Milan’s municipal public transport company, has launched last year the most ambitious Italian project to date aimed to the electrification of bus fleet. ATM plans to convert the whole fleet (1,200 buses) to zero emission electric drives by 2030. Now, 25 electric buses by Solaris are runni...

Busworld Russia powered by Autotrans is organised by ITEMF Expo with support of Busworld International in Crocus Expo in Moscow from 23 to 25 October 2018. Busworld Russia is held once every two years in even-numbered years, alternating with the Comtrans exhibition of ITEMF.

Heuliez Bus and is the brand of CNH Industrial that produces, in the French plant in Rorthais, electric and hybrid buses, beyond those fuelled with diesel and gas. The plant employs 420 people, of whom 10 per cent are engineers. The 12-metre and the articulated electric bus (named GX 337 Electric an...

Olectra-BYD has signed a contract with the north Indian state of Uttarakhand to deliver 500 electric buses. The contract is valued at about 82 millions euros. The curtain on the partnership between the Indian and the Chinese company was raised in Bangalore at Busworld India 2018. Local electric buse...

Westcoast Sightseeing is moving toward the electrification of the whole fleet, BYD Canada has been chosen as the preferred partner for the transition. The transport company, that prides itself to be the largest private bus operator in Vancouver, has in fact agreed to work exclusively with BYD on con...

Volvo Buses has been the first manufacturer to stop the production and commercialization of dieseI buses for European market, at the moment of the entrance into force of Euro VI standard. We met the president of Volvo Buses Håkan Agnevall at IAA 2018, where the company received the Sustainable Bus A...

Batteries: there’s a whole life beyond the bus! Reusing and recycling of battery is one of the key issue of the transition to electromobility. Volvo Buses is developing a test in Gothenburg, where bus batteries that have finished their life on an electric bus try to be useful again for storing...

Sales-Lentz in Luxembourg has ordered five Solaris electric buses. The Polish company started its cooperation with Sales-Lentz (that has several electric buses by Volvo in the fleet) last year when it delivered its first vehicle to Luxembourg. Having ordered a bus with a conventional combustion engi...

Stadtwerke München (SWM) planned the procurement of 40 electric buses for the city’s transit operator MVG. The first order has been placed to Ebusco. The Dutch company will provide its new generation Ebusco 2.2 in four units. The first 6 buses (also two articulated electric buses will be delivered, ...

Electric buses at the starting blocks: they’ll have the opportunity to show their value on Bonn’s streets during three days test. Ebus Test 2018, focused this year on articulated electric buses, is underway. There are three contenders: Solaris Urbino 18 Electric, VDL Citea Slfa-181 Elect...