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Electric buses are too expensive: the Northwest Mecklenburg district council, in Germany, has taken the decision to operate its diesel fleet via HVO 100 synthetic fuel (produced from waste and used vegetable oil) in future, as reported on German trade media Bus Blickpunkt. Northwest Mecklenburg uses...

Scania bets strong(er) on LNG on the touristic segment, and in the meanwhile is developing a plug-in hybrid platform for coaches (you read that right). Scania Italia‘s 2024 has been a record year for the bus segment. And the group is finally entering the e-bus segment (starting with the Class ...

Do Young Kim will be the new Scania’s CFO effective February 1st, 2025. Do Young Kim replaces Jonas Rickberg, who is leaving Scania to become CFO of Skanska Group. Currently CFO for International (previously known as Navistar, a sister company belonging to the TRATON Group), Kim a will also be...

At the recent FIAA exhibition in Madrid, Yutong presented a selection of its latest electric models, designed for applications ranging from urban transport to long-distance luxury travel. According to Yutong, the company has delivered over 190,000 pure electric buses worldwide, collectively travelin...

Daimler Buses states it has been confirmed by Hamburger Hochbahn as the sole supplier of up to 350 fully electric Mercedes eCitaro and eCitaro G city buses. The same OEM has already been awarded up to 250 e-buses by the other city operator VHH. In March 2024 Hochbahn, headed since December 2023 by R...

Karsan is set to introduce a intercity Low Entry electric bus model starting in early 2025. It will mark the debut of Karsan in the intercity electric bus market – as well as in the Class II market at all. In the same segment, the latest news are the launch of Irizar i3 in BEV version [&hellip...

MAN Truck & Bus celebreates the completion of the new building for the large-scale production of batteries for fully electric trucks and buses at its Nuremberg site (announced in 2022), a few weeks after the delivery of the very first MAN eTruck to a customer. From April 2025, high-voltage batte...

Sponsored by SONGZ Founded in 1998, SONGZ has established itself as a leading supplier of air conditioning systems for buses across China, testified by the figure of around 250,000 e-bus air conditioning and battery thermal management systems provided to date. The company serves a broad range of cli...

While electric bus share in the city bus segment is “almost 100%” as of mid-2024 in China, electrification of coaches is lagging (a lot) behind: their share was around 6% in the first half of 2024. The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) released a new report on zero-emi...

Last October was certainly one of the worst in Spain’s recent history. The damage from the so-called Dana, the weather phenomenon that devastated in particular the Valencia area, causing hundreds of deaths, was calculated at more than 30 billion euros. In short, in the coming months and years, the e...