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Olectra Greentech has been displaying its new Blade Battery bus chassis at the Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2025. Also on show, the newly styled 9-meter City and 12-meter Coach buses. In mid 2024 the OEM stated it had achieved a milestone by surpassing 10,000 units in its e-bus order book, being the ...

Solaris will perform another delivery of electric buses in Warsaw. This time, 50 articulated Urbino 18 Electric are included in the contract. To date, the manufacturer has been the supplier of almost 1,350 buses to MZA Warsaw, including 163 electric vehicles (130 vehicles were ordered in 2019 and de...

The Voyages Emilie Weber group is once again buying Irizar electric buses. This time the Luxembourg-based transport company is acquiring eleven ie bus units, which are added to the twenty-one units the group acquired in 2019. In September 2024 Irizar has launched the new i3 intercity e-bus model at ...

Alexander Dennis has delivered another nine Enviro500EV zero-emission double deck buses to Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation. The buses are part of a larger order for 35 next-generation Enviro500EV, awarded in late 2023. A pre-production vehicle entered service in June 2024 as the Corporation’s first elec...

CALSTART announces it has appointed Suzette Salandy and Marc Gottschalk as Vice President, People Resources and Chief Legal Counsel, respectively.   Non profit organization CALSTART, focusing on supporting the growth of the clean transportation technology industry and responsible among other things ...

Long Beach Transit (LBT) has signed a contract for 30 battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE NG 40-foot buses (12-meter long). New Flyer announced in late 2024 it will be relying on MAN-made bus axles for another five years (until the end of 2029). Two major contracts were awarded in 2024 in Boston and Ne...

The EU has arranged nearly 1 billion euros for the construction of infrastructure, particularly charging stations for trucks and buses. This was announced by European Transport Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas. This adds up to the 1.2 billion already allocated over the past three years by the Eur...

Naples municipal carrier ANM is taking delivery of 20 Higer Azure electric minibuses, through Italian dealer Sitcar, as reported on Italian trade media (and Sustainable Bus’ sister platform) Autobusweb. Former traditional bodybuilder Sitcar is in the process of being relaunched, thanks to the ...

Next Modular Vehicles‘ electric pods (set to be manufactured, starting this year, in the Tecnobus factory) will be tested by on-demand transit van provider Wayla in Milan, that started operation in late 2024. In mid-December 2024 Next presented the generation of its modular pod for passenger t...

Wrightbus is introducing new 6m and 9m electric buses and 7.5-tonne trucks in its portfolio. Buses are produced by Chinese King Long are fitting a new Wrightbus’ brand named Rightech. Short buses and truck will be available in both left-hand and right-hand drive configurations. Wrightbus expec...