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It has been the first tender aiming to the electrification of Bvg fleet in Berlin, starting with 30 electric buses 12 meters long. The transport operator is now checking the offers, and preparing a new tender for articulated buses, electric as well, that allegedly will be released shortly. Bvg and t...

Norway bets on Vdl Bus & Coach. The transport operator Unibuss has recently placed an order for 40 electric Citeas. This includes 30 Citeas SLFA-180 Electric and 10 Citeas SLF- 120 Electric that will serve the Greater Oslo Region. This order (the largest one for electric buses in Scandinavia for...

Irizar inaugurated on 11th of May the first European plant totally dedicated to electromobility. 18.000 square meters of gross floor area on 4 hectars plot, situated in the town of Aduna, Gipuzkoa (close to San Sebastian) is the place where Irizar is building, and will build, all its electric vehicl...

Voltabox AG received an order for the series production of 26 battery systems for the NexGen trolleybus fleet Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority (Dayton RTA). Overall, the framework agreement covers the delivery of 75 systems that will replace old battery system giving new “energy&#8221...

Electric Citaro, first big order before premiere. Hamburger Hochbahn (that plans to procure emission-free buses only from 2020) has placed an order for 20 units of the first battery electric bus realized by Mercedes. The first two units will be handed over before the end of this year. And the offici...

Van Hool is to build 58 trambuses for Trondheim in Norway, where they are set to enter service as from August 2019. The Lier-based bus manufacturer has signed a contract with Nettbuss and Tide, the local operators who run the buses on behalf of AtB, the public transport company in Trondheim, to supp...

10 fuell cell buses to Aberdeen (bringing to 20 the hydrogen fleet of the city) and 12 units to Dundee. The two Scottish cities are taking part in the European project Jive 2 directed by Uitp. The project has received a €25 million grant to deploy 152 hydrogen fuel cell buses across 14 European citi...

The development of autonomous and electrified vehicles for the Chinese market is the horizon of Scania’s partnership with Haylion Technologies, a company committed in the development of solutions for the Chinese transport sector, with a focus on autonomous driving, electrification and connecti...

Masabi announced a new strategic partnership with Uber. The goal? To add public transit mobile ticketing into the Uber app. Once an agreement is reached with a transit agency, Uber users will have the option to book and display  Masabi customers’ transit tickets in the app, allowing for seamless tra...

The jury becomes more representative of the European market and the award giving day is established. The journey towards the Sustainable Bus Award 2019 prize-giving ceremony is starting, as the deadline is already marked on the calendar: the winners will be announced in September in Hannover, during...