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In December, 22 e-buses will be on Drammen’s roads, in Norway. Two of them are articulated vehicles and will be operating on line 3. There will also be a new, and completely electric, line between Lierbyen school and Gulskogen! The charging stations for the electric buses are now under install...

Cummins and Bustech, Australia’s largest supplier of transit buses designed, engineered and manufactured in Australia, announced an agreement to build the next generation Bustech XDi low floor transit bus using Cummins zero-emission battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell technologies. The agreement...

CaetanoBus was selected as the supplier to deliver four hydrogen buses to Bielefeld’s Transport Company in Germany. The operator is moBiel GmbH, and these will be the first hydrogen buses in the history of the company. They’ll be tested on a bus line in the city. The investment will be subsidi...

Dutch telematics company ViriCiti announces it has started rolling out the largest Smart Charging implementation in the public transportation sector (with the exception of China). In total 163 charger connectors (both plugin & pantograph) managed by Qbuzz are connected to the ViriCiti dashboard....

An order for up to 50 electric buses Heuliez GX 337 Elec has been achieved by the French brand in the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolitan area, where public transport operations are managed by Keolis Pays d’Aix. The first four vehicles went into service at the beginning of 2020. Now a new orde...

Keolis Transit America wins a new bus contract in Southern California for the operations of 114 buses, mainly fueled with natural gas (87 vehicles). The contract has begun on 1 October and has a length of 5 years, with the option to extend it for an additional five years. As of end 2019, 20 per cent...

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One hundred Yutong electric buses coming (soon) to GTT Torino, in Italy? Not really. The contract has been “Cancelled after verification”, the public transport operator GTT says. The vehicles had been assigned to the Chinese giant Yutong. Now checks are being done on the second bidder, B...

Autocar Expo 2020 in Lyon, France, has been cancelled. The exhibition was scheduled for next week, on 14 to 16t October. The decision is due to the passage into the maximum alert zone of the city of Lyon, announced on 8 October 2020 by Olivier Véran, Minister of Health. The news is reported on the F...

Pierre Lahutte joins the Supervisory Board of Forsee Power, a French battery supplier chosen, for example, by Heuliez – Iveco for the electric bus range and Alstom for the Aptis (as well as the Portuguese CaetanoBus, both for the battery-electric vehicle and for the hydrogen one). Lahutte&#821...