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De Lijn will start emission-free public transport in the Belgian city of Mechelen in early November. Six electric midi buses by CRRC with a length of 8.5m will be deployed on city lines in the Maneblusser city. They represent a substantial improvement in public transport. The commissioning of the si...

De Lijn announces it is rolling out the first new generation electric buses by VDL into service from its Destelbergen depot on 1 July. The first 5 of 24 e-buses from VDL will strengthen the Flemish Transport Company’s electric fleet in the Ghent region. Order dates back to late 2021. The very ...

De Lijn‘s board of directors has given ‘green light’ for a new order for charging infrastructure for its depots. This consists in a framework agreement for up to 1,600 charging stations to be sourced from two suppliers, SPIE-Ekoenergetyka and ABB. The conversion of the depots plays...

Iveco Bus has announced that it has signed a framework agreement with De Lijn, a government-owned public transport group in Flanders, for the sale of a first batch of 65 E-Way full electric city buses and “additional batches up to a total of 500 vehicles”, as the manufacturer puts it. In...

De Lijn is placing a new order with SPIE for 252 additional charging stations for its depots. The charging stations are scheduled to go into operation in 2023-2024. This year board of directors of De Lijn has started a procurement for the purchase of up to 1,250 emission-free buses of different type...

In order to manage its charging systems and depots as effectively and efficiently as possible, De Lijn has decided to invest in software that will, precisely, manage the charging processes and all e-bus movements in its depots. The value of the contract with German supplier PSI is 11.2 million euros...