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Volvo Group has announced a strategic investment in Optibus (entity has not been released). Goal? “To advance bus electrification and the digitalization of the public transportation industry”, Optibus says in a press note. The investment supports key software infrastructure for achieving...

Over 700 electric buses are today in operation in Poland. In Q1 2022 alone, as many as 79 vehicles joined this fleet. The figures are released in the e-bus counter of the Polish Chamber of Electromobility Development Association and the specialized media TransInfo.pl. Over 1,350 e-buses are forecast...

Volvo Connect, launched yesterday 28th April 2022, is Volvo Buses new customer portal where operators and owners can access Volvo Bus services. With the connected services in one place, together with services for workshop efficiency, Volvo’s customers will have a new set of tools to increase uptime ...

Equipmake is showcasing its latest pure electric bus technology at the ALBUM Conference in Blackpool, in the shape of a repowered double decker.  Unveiled for the first time, the fully electric Volvo B5LH debuts the company’s repower solution, which has been developed at Equipmake’s base in Norfolk ...

TTC Toronto has contracted up to 565 buses with New Flyer. The contract includes 134 Xcelsior forty-foot hybrid-electric buses, and 68 Xcelsior sixty-foot hybrid-electric buses (136 equivalent units) for a total of 270 EUs. The two four-year contracts include options for up to additional 263 forty-f...

Hitachi Energy Grid-eMotion Fleet charging system will be implemented in two new depots in Berlin, where the city operator BVG has set the goal of a zero-emission bus fleet by 2030. 90 e-buses will be deployed in 2022, according to plans. Infrastructure’s provider Hitachi Energy (who is suppor...

Following the launch of the new Volvo BZL Electric chassis in September 2021, production of this model has been ramping up at the Borås factory, with chassis number 200,000 set to be handed over to the Public Transport Authority (PTA) of Western Australia this year, Volvo Buses says. The handover of...

The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) has appointed Anna Carmo e Silva – Senior Vice President and Head of Buses and Coaches at Scania – to chair its bus and coach division this year. She succeeds Rudi Kuchta, Head of Bus Business Unit at MAN Truck & Bus, as Chairperson of AC...

A third of the 200,000 buses in European public transport will be zero-emission by 2030. At that year, zero emission buses will cover two thirds of the new city bus registrations. These figures are written down in the report “All aboard Europe’s electric bus revolution” by financial cons...

A large fire event in Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen (SBB)’s depot, in Gaisberg, destroyed 25 buses on Thursday 30th September. A few days ago, a first assessment by the police, reported on many German media, said that the fire could have been caused by an electric bus during charging procedure. As...