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Hyundai announced the launch of its first electric bus for the Japanese market, the Elec City Town. It’ll be marketed through authorized dealers by the end of 2024. This move marks Hyundai’s expansion of its electric vehicle lineup tailored to meet the demands of Japanese bus operators. ...

Golden Arrow Bus Services, operating in Cape Town (South Africa) announces it has signed a deal with BYD for the purchase of 120 electric buses. It comes after a 4-years time of testing. Deliveries are scheduled to start late in 2024, with all the buses expected to be operational before December 202...

A bus industry consortium led by Zenobē is to deploy 252 electric buses (and coaches!) in Scotland within the Scottish Government’s Zero Emission Bus Challenge Fund (ScotZEB 2). Phase 2 of ScotZEB differed from Phase 1 (launched in 2021) in that applicants had to cooperatively pitch as part of a con...

Ebusco has received a fixed order of 25 Ebusco 2.2 buses via the Deutsche Bahn framework agreement. They’ll go to Speyer, south of Mannheim. With this order, the buses ordered through the framework agreement total to 140 Ebusco buses. The framework agreement between Ebusco and Deutsche Bahn wa...

14 further Yutong single deck electric vehicles will be supplied by Pelican in Nottingham, thanks to a successful Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas bid. NCT currently have 24 fully electric Yutong single-decker buses are on the road. The operator recently celebrated 250,000 zero-emission kilometres. ...

Forsee Power announces it has achieved sales for €84.4 million in the first half of 2024, up +7% from H1 2023 (but Q2 showed a significant decrease: -23%). The battery suppliers highlights that “in the heavy vehicles segment, the Group more than offset the drop in Iveco orders”, as the c...

Indian bus maker startup Urban Sphere, based in Bangalore, is targeting the e-bus market with an offer made of BEV vehicles from 6 to 9 meter long. The company says having "prototypes ready for approval" and most of the production is carried on in India. South-east Asia and Africa are among the main...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the signing of a $12.6 billion agreement, including up to $1.2 billion from the DOE and $11.4 billion in public and private matching funds, to accelerate clean hydrogen projects throughout California. Within the plan, an initiative aiming to deploy o...

The Global Mobility Call 2024, to be held from 19 to 21 November in Madrid, is now open for visitor registration. Once again, Sustainable Bus, together with our sister media Sustainable Truck & Van, will support the Spanish event as a media partner, just like last year. The third edition of the ...

The autonomous Portuguese islands of Madeira and Porto Santo have unveiled a new integrated ticketing system that will transform access to millions of bus journeys for local people and visitors.  The project, delivered by the Autonomous Region of Madeira, brings together three bus operators in a new...