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BYD unveiled last week a new generation transit bus and coach for the North American market. The two electric vehicles are named BYD K7M-ER and BYD C9M respectively and will be built in BYD plant in Lancaster (California), where 750 workers are employed. This year BYD opened a bew electric bus plant...

Serial production has just started, the first deliveries will take place in France (starting with Strasbourg, then La Rochelle) are planned by the end of the year. Alstom Aptis is a real newcomer in the electric bus market, but relies on the strong experience of a giant transport-focused group. Six ...

Keolis has been awarded a new concession in the Netherlands, defeating Connexxion, EBS and Arriva (a group that is going to be taken over soon). Public transport in the provinces of Veluwe, Central Overijssel and Lelystad will be managed by the French company in the period 2021 – 2030. 300 ele...

Solaris is ‘lending’ a trolleybus for a Swedish programme on electric roads in the city of Lund. The ‘EVolution Road’ project concerns creating an electric road which automatically detects and charges electric vehicles, both while driving as well as at a standstill, for instance when par...

The Zero Emission Bus Conference is the premier event for electric bus knowledge and industry collaboration. As more cities, provinces, and states ramp up their climate change mitigation goals in accordance with the Paris Agreement, countries are turning toward electric mobility as a key strategy to...

Wrightbus is expected to go into administration due to insolvency. The case of the North Ireland bus manufacturer, that secured several order of fuel cell buses in the past months, brings to two the number of big brankrupts in UK’s week, after Thomas Cook failure. Wrightbus has 1,400 employees...

In Malaga rapid charging of buses happen… through the ground. In the Spanish city, Alstom has installed for the first time its new SRS system dedicated to ebuses. The world premiere is part of the European project Paloma, and sees Alstom in the role of supplier of the SRS charging system. The ...

RATP has a fleet of 4,700 buses in Paris and is pursuing the target of converting the whole fleet to low and zero emission buses by 2025. In that year, two thirds of the fleet must be electrically powered, one third biogas powered. The effort realized by RATP with public transport authority Ile-de-F...

ADL will supply six electric buses in New Zealand, powered with BYD technology. They’ll be the new variant of the Enviro200EV with a lenght of 11.6 meter, recently announced. The buses will be delivered in mid-2020 to Fullers360, and will mean the beginning of the conversion of bus services on...

Zero emission mode in the city centre, diesel powered for the rest of the route. The British manufacturer Alexander Dennis delivered 30 new hybrid buses to Brighton & Hove (they will start operations in October). They are equipped with BAE Systems’ series hybrid technology. These vehicles will s...