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Santiago de Chile has 411 battery-electric buses today in operation within the largest e-bus fleet outside China (…although the brands are the same, as only Chinese-made ZEBs are running in Santiago, and Latin America, so far). The capital city is in the spotlight of a lately released case stu...

Ballard Power Systems announced that it has received follow-on purchase orders for 15 of its 85-kilowatt heavy-duty FCveloCity-HD fuel cell modules from Wrightbus. The Northern Ireland based bus manufacturer was recently re-capitalized by Bamford Bus Company, after having gone into administration la...

PKM will bring to 15 the number of electric buses operating in the Polish city of Katowice. Representatives of local transport operator Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacji Miejskiej (PKM) in Katowice and Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. signed on Monday a contract for the delivery of five e-buses Solaris Urbin...

The Luxembourgish operator Voyages Vandivinit has received a batch of five battery-electric buses from Volvo. They’ll operate between Mondorf and Remich, in the charming Moselle region, and will be charged through a high-powered Oppcharge infrastructure. The company Voyage Vandivinit is a fami...

Arrival electric bus is on the launching pad. The UK-based startup has today unveiled the pictures and the first information related to its next project, an electrically-powered electric bus. Arrival, that in early 2020 announced it has received 100 million euros investments from Hyundai Motor Group...

Nobina bets again on BYD with two separate deliveries this week totaling 34 electric buses for operations with public transport authorities in Linköping and Halland, in Sweden. Nobina’s total intake of electric bus units from BYD now exceeds 160 units, either in operation or on order, BYD points out...

Utrecht has witness the first days in operation of further 20 Ebusco zero emission buses. With a peculiarity: they are being deployed on regional routes. At the beginning of June, the Dutch company in fact delivered a batch of 20 Ebusco 2.2 to Qbuzz, a subsidiary of Busitalia, in Utrecht. This bring...

Transdev’s ambition is to electrify 100% of its fleet of school buses in Québec by 2025. Its subsidiary Transdev Canada, present in Québec and Ontario, announces that it has decided – as part of its energy transition strategy – to invest nearly €3 million in a fleet of 27 electric ...

Siemens Smart Infrastructure has been awarded the contract for the energy supply of Leipzig’s 21 electric low-floor buses, manufactured by VDL. The vehicles will be charged both at the depot and on-route (via on-board pantograph and contact hood with 100 and 450 kilowatts). Another cooperation...

MAN has been provisionally awarded the contract for the supply of 150 mild hybrid buses for ATM Milano. Following the awarding, a first order of 60 vehicles will be supplied within 2021. The news is reported on the Italian specialized magazine AUTOBUS. This was the first tender ever issued by ATM fo...