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Naples public transport municipal operator ANM has issued in September a tender for up to 253 electric buses in different lengths. Well, while the first two lots (65 short vehicles) gathered no bids, the winners of the remaining four lots are Iveco Bus and BYD, as reported on Italian trade media Aut...

Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr has just received the first Mercedes‑Benz eCitaro articulated buses from series production with a fuel cell as a range extender. The bus is said to have a range of up to 400 kilometers. It’ll be in use in urban traffic throughout the cities of Mannheim and Heidelberg ...

Manufactured in Flumeri, Southern Italy (some 100 km west of Naples), in one of the largest bus plants in Europe, the Menarini Citymood 12e, launched in late 2021, is the only standard size battery-electric bus featuring the ‘made in Italy’ label. It features a self-supporting steel fram...

A new contract for 500 battery-powered and fuel cell-powered buses (for the first time) has been awarded by Italian central purchasing body Consip to a total of 8 manufacturers. Such contracts worth a total of 327 million euros. It was issued in May 2023. Consip has awarded late last year the tender...

Solaris will deliver 20 12-meter hydrogen buses to the Polish city of Wałbrzych. The contract includes an option to purchase an additional 25 vehicles. The first 14 units will be delivered to Wałbrzych in September 2024. The contract is to be completed by the end of July 2025. The vehicles ordered w...

IRU’s position on the vote held on 21st November at the European Parliament is clear and stark: “The European Parliament’s plenary vote on CO₂ emission targets for heavy-duty vehicles sets unrealistic targets for zero-emission vehicles, feebly tries to factor the role of carbon-neu...

Just like the Council, the European Parliament voted in favor of the Commission’s 45% emission reduction target for manufacturers by 2030, escalating to 65% as of 2035, before jumping to 90% starting 2040. IRU’s reaction? “Unrealistic targets”. Now the policy framework moves ...

Prague Transport Company and Škoda Group have introduced today the Škoda-Solaris 24m, the longest trolleybus in the Czech Republic. Passengers using public transport to or from Václav Havel Airport Prague will soon be travelling on a long-awaited double-articulated, almost 25-metre-long battery-powe...

Iveco Bus announces changes at its sales organisation with Petros Spinaris (formerly in Solaris and Ekoenergetyka) appointed Head of the new Energy Mobility Solutions department, Giorgio Zino in the position of Head of commercial operations in Europe, Danilo Fetzner at the helm of Latin America, Gau...

Phoenix Motorcars‘s bid has win the tender to acquire Proterra Transit business line, “through the auction of the assets pursuant to bankruptcy court approved bidding procedures”, as stated by the purchaser in a press note. The acquisition will add heavy-duty transit buses to Phoen...