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In 2018, 5% of city buses registered in Western Europe and Poland were battery-electric buses. Electric buses registrations increased by 48% between 2017 and 2018. The figures comes from CME Solutions, which quantifies 562 registrations of battery-electric buses over 8 tons made during 2018. 562 ele...

TTC Toronto brings to 20 the number of electric buses ordered to New Flyer. After the first order for 10 Xcelsior Charge (with option for further 30), the Toronto Transit Commission recently awarded the Canadian manufacturer with an additional contract for 10 zero emission vehicles. As a first step ...

Volvo to deliver the first electric bus in Ireland. The Gothenburg-based company has been awarded the contract to supply a fully electric bus to the Crowne Plaza Dublin Airport Hotel. This will be the first electric bus to go into operation in Ireland and will operate passenger transfers at Dublin A...

In the electric bus there is… a library. A library on wheels! Gothenburg City Library ordered two Volvo 7900 Electric buses to be delivered in July 2020. They will replace the two mobile libraries currently operating in and around the city, visiting about 70 mobile library stops and 110 presch...

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...