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The bus, fitted with 472kWh batteries as standard (the supplier is the Polish Impact), comes together with a 14-years warranty, covering as many as 1 million km (whichever comes first). The vehicle launched this week is a demonstrator "which will be made available to operators upon completion of its...

Foton AUV has delivered a batch of BJ6126 hydrogen fuel cell intercity buses to Beijing Leading Tourism Passenger Transport Company, as reported by the Chinese trade media Chinabuses. The number of buses delivered is not specified. In August 2022, Foton signed a deal for 1,022 battery-electric city ...

MVG is rolling out 13 new electric buses by MAN in Munich’s streets. The fleet of battery-powered Lion’s City 12 E buses will join 21 e-buses, also from MAN, operating in the city since 2023, thus expanding the e-bus fleet of Munich’s largest public transport company, coming to 71 ...

With 131 hydrogen buses deployed in the continent, European major fuel cell bus project Joint Initiative for hydrogen Vehicles across Europe (JIVE 1) has come to an end. Vehicles have been rolled out in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK, marking a significant step towards sustainable urban...

Ebusco half 2024 financial results show EBITDA loss of €60.7 million (increased 40% compared to 43 in 2023) and revenue at €38 million (-8.8%). Just 98 buses were delivered, vs a order book of as many as 1,662 buses. “Scaling up with contract manufacturers has been hampered by start-up ineffic...

Good news for the trolleybus world come from Landskrona, a town in southern Sweden of about 30,000 inhabitants and the only one with a trolleybus system in Sweden, active since 27 September 2003. It is a small network, just 3.4 km long, but important for the town’s mobility. The trolleybus lin...

TMB is testing an articulated electric bus from the BYD, 18.75m long, simulating regular service on lines H16, V15 and H12. A few days ago the first Solaris fuel cell bus was launched in operation in the city (also 2 18-meter models will be delivered). TMB plans to have 25% zero emission buses in it...

Zero emission bus registrations grew 45% in the first half of 2024, according to data from ACEA. Their market share increased from 13.7% to 15.5% (17% considering also EFTA countries and UK). Looking at 2023, still according to ACEA, electric bus registrations in the European Union “increased by 39....

Gillig announces that it will partner with more than 48 communities nationwide through the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Low- and No-Emission (Low-No) Vehicle grant program. These partnerships represent 65% of all awards designated for heavy-duty transit vehicles, the OEM underlines. ...

Autonomous driving technology provider Adastec announces the deployment of the first Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant automated bus at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, in Michigan, in partnership with Vicinity and ARIBO, an AV ...