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Chinese electric city bus market is close to saturation, thus Chinese manufacturers will look with increasing determination to European and overseas markets. In the meanwhile, global electric bus market is expected to reach over 160,000 units delivered yearly by 2025 (today we have around 2,200 elec...

Following, we report about Ebus test 2018, held in Bonn in October 2018. The event is organized by the German magazine Omnibusspiegel. Below, the first article, as introduction. Successively, we will publish one detailed article on each vehicle. Keep following! Between 1.65 and 1.84 kilowatt hours p...

It has been the first European public call for tender on LNG powered buses. The tender procedure was issued by the Italian public transport company TPER during 2017 and both lots (city and intercity buses) were won by Industria Italiana Autobus with the LNG version of Citymood. A bus that, actually,...

481 Scania gas fuelled Euro 6 buses weren’t enough. Bogotà awarded the Swedish company a contract for further 260 vehicles of the same kind, bringing the total order to 741 buses for the Bus rapid transit. The 260 vehicles are bi-articulated able to carry up to 250 passengers and will be bodyb...

26 Iveco Crealis Cng fuelled will be the “skeleton” of the Bus Rapid Transit “Lémergent”, just launched by the Abidjan Transport Company (SOTRA) of Abidjan, the former political capital of the Ivory Coast (and one of the most populous French-speaking cities in Africa). These ...

The Victor Valley Transit Authority (VVTA) has awarded New Flyer a new contract for seven forty-foot (12 meter), battery electric buses Xcelsior Charge. The new vehicles will mark the beginning of VVTA’s transition to zero emission as the agency works toward a goal of 100 percent electric public tra...

Volvo Buses has officially started a test regarding the second life of electric bus batteries. Sustainable Bus already reported about the preparations HERE. Today, 5th December, the company announced the official inauguration of what is probably Europe’s first ever energy warehouse using electric bu...

55 hybrid buses by Nova Bus are on their way to Toronto. Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) will receive them as part of a larger order of 325 buses awarded to the manufacturer, subsidiary of Volvo Buses, following a tendering process. The vehicles belong to the next generation hybrid buses by Nova Bu...

Electric buses are not enough to make a green fleet. Issues such as energy production and life cycle emissions are quite known and debated. But what is happening in UK is a real extreme case: a fleet of electric buses powered by a diesel generator. Indeed, Harrogate Bus Company claims it’s hav...

Scania welcomes its largest gas bus delivery ever. 481 Euro VI gas fuelled buses will be deployed on Transmilenio BRT in Colombian capitol city Bogotà. The vehicles, articulated and bi-articulated, are bodybuilt by Busscar. Also Volvo Buses won a significant tender for Transmilenio and will thus sup...