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With an order of five new Mercedes eCitaro electric buses, Bremen public transport provider Bremer Straßenbahn AG (BSAG) is taking a first step towards the electrification of its local public transport offering. Delivery of the locally emission-free eCitaro buses will take place in early 2022. They ...

Toyota joins forces with CaetanoBus and Finlog in an effort dedicated to the development and production of fuel buses in Europe. The strategic alliance has been made public by Toyota: the brand explains that «Toyota Caetano Portugal (TCAP), the joint venture of Toyota Motor Europe (TME) and Salvador...

Van Hool electric coach is now… real. The first Van Hool CX45E has left the factory in Belgium and has been now shipped to the US. The bus was showcased at Busworld 2019 and it is addressed at the North American market. As a supplier of battery modules, Van Hool has chosen Proterra, a US based...

Luxembourg City has welcomed a new batch of 10 Volvo 7900 Electric buses, following a Europe-wide call for tenders issued in 2019. The contract was awarded to Volvo Bus in January 2020 (although the number of vehicles was at that time disclosed to be 17), and the buses were delivered in November 202...

First delivery in Europe for the electric midibus Iveco E-Way 9.5-meter. The first out of 3 units of the battery-electric vehicle has just been delivered Italy by Iveco Bus’ dedicated dealer Maresca & Fiorentino of Bologna to the public transport company TPER. The remaining two are expected in t...

MZA Warsaw has just taken delivery of the 20,000th bus ever produced by Solaris Bus & Coach. This handover involves the last of the 130 electric bus units supplied to the capital of Poland following the order secured in summer 2019 (the first bus was delivered in end March). Solaris announced ye...

Barcelona plans that from now on only clean buses will be bought, meaning battery-electric, hydrogen and gas-hybrid vehicles. TMB’s commitment to reducing emissions and decarbonization has the goal of reaching 2030 with more than 50% of the bus fleet made of electric buses (23 units are expect...

Siemens Smart Infrastructure won a major contract from Hamburger Hochbahn, the largest local transport provider in the Hanseatic city. Siemens will equip two of the six carports at the Alsterdorf bus depot with a total of 96 charging points as well as medium and low-voltage technology. Operations ar...

Cologne’s RVK is testing a Caetano hydrogen bus. Until mid-January, the 12-meter Caetano H2.CityGold will be tested in the metropolitan area of Cologne, Germany. The operator will receive 15 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen in the future that will join 30 fuel cell buses by Van Hool. The same vehicle has ...

Euro Mobility Expo 2020 will be held in a full digital mode. Initially scheduled for 24-26 June, then postponed to 15-17 December, on 28th October the organizers communicated that the face-to-face event has to be cancelled due to the pandemic.