Electric buses

The Düsseldorf Rheinbahn is ordering 20 battery-electric buses from the Dutch manufacturer VDL, including 15 articulated and five solo buses. Delivery of the first vehicles is scheduled for mid-2024. The number of electric buses at Rheinbahn increases to 30 ...

Keolis to operate new Stockholm electric bus network

The Northern European public transport operator Keolis has been awarded a ten-year contract to operate and maintain bus routes around Stockholm. Eighty per cent of distances undertaken by the company will be covered by electric buses; the remaining vehicles ...

Siemens reveals 600 kW pantograph for electric buses

Siemens is launching the e-Line OnBoard series, a particularly quiet charging pantograph for electric buses, suitable for charging powers of up to 600 kW. The pantograph charger can be used for occasional charging for a short time with high ...

Buses are beating cars in the race to go electric

All over the world, buses are quickly and quietly going electric. By 2032, about half of the world’s buses will be entirely battery-powered, as will almost three out of four buses sold, according to BloombergNEF’s seventh annual Electric Vehicle Outlook. It will take ...

eCitaro fuel cell buses to grace hilly Italian roads

The Mercedes-Benz eCitaro hydrogen fuel cell electric bus will be used in northern Italy from the end of this year. The public transport operator SASA has ordered nine examples of the 18-metre-long articulated version of the electric bus with ...

Wrightbus financed to pump up exports

A guarantee from UK Export Finance (UKEF) has provided Northern Ireland-based bus manufacturer Wrightbus with £50 million in financing to support its export strategy. The Export Development Guarantee sees the UK’s export credit agency guarantee 80 per cent of ...

Seoul places massive FC bus order with Hyundai

South Korea’s capital Seoul wants to replace a total of 1,300 existing buses with new fuel-cell buses from Hyundai by 2026. This was agreed upon by Hyundai Motor, the Seoul city government, the South Korean Ministry of the Environment ...

2023 Global Public Transport Summit highlights electric buses

In urban transportation, electric buses are no longer a rarity. The Global Public Transport Summit (GPTS), the meeting of the international public transport scene, is expected to boost the industry further because there has never been so much “E” ...

Deutsche Bahn receives funding for 250 zero-emission buses

Deutsche Bahn, the German railway company, is on track to replace its fleet of diesel buses with electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles. The first new buses have been ordered and will complement the existing electric bus fleets in several states. ...

Forsee introduces ‘Flex-Plus’ battery for heavy vehicles

The French battery manufacturer Forsee Power presented the ‘Flex Plus’ new battery system for equipping heavy electric vehicles such as buses, trucks and off-road vehicles. Only a month ago, the company presented a battery system for medium-sized trucks and ...

New Flyer signs major electric bus delivery deal with Toronto

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) has signed a framework agreement with the North American manufacturer New Flyer for the delivery of up to 621 battery buses. The public transport operator has already ordered 186 units. The order is for ...

Daimler Buses creates infrastructure subsidiary

Daimler Buses is setting up a subsidiary specialising in the design and construction of infrastructure for electric buses. In collaboration with its partners, Daimler Buses Solutions GmbH will provide customers across Europe with the complete infrastructure from a single ...

ABB presents depot charging solution

ABB E-Mobility has presented a new depot charging solution for electric bus and truck fleets at the UITP in Barcelona. The HVC360 enables up to four charging stations to be connected – regardless of whether these are CCS or ...

Daimler officially presents the Mercedes eCitaro fuel cell

Daimler Buses presented its first serial electric bus with a fuel cell as a range extender at the presentation of the eCitaro fuel cell at the Global Public Transport Summit. The start of the series production of the eCitaro ...

MAN decides against developing Euro-7 buses

Bus manufacturer MAN will not invest in Euro 7 technology and instead will only have zero-emission buses in its portfolio for cities and municipalities from 2030. The manufacturer also presented its latest electric vehicle model in Barcelona: the Lion’s ...

Bus contract between Wiener Lienien and Solaris dropped

A contract between Vienna public transport operator Wiener Linien and the Polish bus manufacturer Solaris for the delivery of ten hydrogen buses has apparently fallen through. In addition to 60 battery-electric buses from Daimler, Wiener Linien had also ordered ...

Australia: Canberra orders 94 electric buses

The Australian city of Canberra has purchased 94 electric buses. The first should be delivered later this year, while the rest will join the city fleet progressively through 2026. The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government has ordered 90 buses ...

Volvo Buses presents electric city bus for Mexico

Volvo Buses has unveiled a new all-electric city bus for the Mexican market that will be manufactured locally. The new model is called Luminus and is available in different lengths from 9.7 to 13 metres and with battery capacities ...

Mach2 consortium will unleash driverless shuttles in France

A French consortium comprising Alstom, EasyMile, Equans, Keolis, Renault Group and StatInf, is about to launch a fleet of autonomous minibuses. The project dubbed Mach2 includes level 4 autonomy, without a human driver onboard, and is a first in ...

BYD-Castrosua presents first electric city bus

BYD has presented the first electric bus jointly developed with the Spanish chassis builder Castrosua. Both companies signed a manufacturing partnership last year. The first units of the electric bus will soon be in use in Spain. The BYD-Castrosua ...

Foothill Transit grows fuel-cell-electric bus fleet

Foothill Transit, a public transport agency serving the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys in Southern California, is furthering its sustainability efforts with the introduction of Axess EVO-FC buses to its fleet. Manufacturer ElDorado National (ENC) will produce the buses ...

Italian authorities get funding to procure Rampini buses

Italy’s bus maker Rampini has won a tender from the procurement agency Consip to supply up to 280 zero-emission buses. The contract will come into force this June, allowing public administrations to buy a Rampini e-bus with or without ...

Amsterdam’s growing e-bus fleet will charge smarter

Amsterdam’s public transit operator GVB is extending smart charging technology across its depots in the Dutch capital. Using technology by The Mobility House, GVB will charge its growing electric bus increasingly intelligently before the year’s end. In concrete terms, ...

Daimler Buses to produce e-buses in France

Daimler Buses will also produce its eCitaro electric bus in France in the first quarter of 2024. The German manufacturer will invest around 50 million euros in the French location of Ligny-en-Barrois by 2030 for this purpose. Since Daimler ...

Blue Bird lays foundations to produce 5,000 ZEV school buses a year

US manufacturer Blue Bird is expanding its production capacity for electric school buses. The ‘Electric Vehicle Build-up Center’, now open on site of the company’s primary US production facility in Georgia, will enable the company to increase its capacity ...

Eight EU countries unite against Euro-7 emission standard

A coordinated resistance has emerged from eight countries against the proposed Euro-7 emission standards by the European Union. Led by the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia have signed a document that labels the suggested ...

Drum roll for Mercedes eCitaro with FC range extender

Daimler Buses announced the imminent series launch of the Mercedes-Benz eCitaro fuel cell. The manufacturer’s first series-production electric bus with a fuel cell as range extender will be presented at the Global Public Transport Summit (GPTS) from 4 to ...

Scotland enters second phase of bus subsidy programme

The Scottish Government is launching the second phase of its Zero Emission Bus Challenge Fund (ScotZEB). Up to £58 million is to be made available for the procurement of zero-emission buses and associated infrastructure. In the first round of ...

Sona Comstar signs tech licensing deal with Equipmake

Automotive systems & components manufacturer Sona Comstar signed a technology licensing agreement with UK-based electric drive specialist Equipmake. Sona Comstar will then manufacture and sell the technology in Southeast Asia. Under the agreement, Equipmake will license its spoke motor ...

Lithuania: Vilnius orders 91 Skoda electric trolley buses

The Skoda Group will deliver 91 electric trolley buses to the Lithuanian capital. These will be delivered in 2024 and 2025. The order is for 91 Skoda 32 Tr and is worth more than 52 million euros. The 12-metre ...

Solaris delivers nine-metre electric buses to Austria

Polish manufacturer Solaris has received a new order from Lustenau in western Austria. The local public transport operator has ordered 16 units of the nine-metre Urbino 9 LE model. The order from transport operator Rheintal Busverkehr will be completed ...

Bremen expands electric bus fleet with 35 eCitaro G

Bremen public transport operator Bremer Straßenbahn AG (BSAG) is procuring 50 more electric buses. Mercedes-Benz (EvoBus) has received an order from BSAG for 35 new fully electric articulated eCitaro G buses. The eCitaro G busses are to be equipped ...

Pepper Motion realigns sales focus and management team

The German electric conversion company Pepper Motion has announced a readjustment of its sales strategy and a reorganisation of its leadership team. Whereas in the past, new bus and truck models were developed in advance, the company will, from ...

Scania introduces new charging service for trucks and buses

Scania has launched Scania Charging Access, a new service designed to simplify public charging for mixed fleets of trucks and buses. The new tool promises set, predictable costs and no hidden fees via one invoicing system. Fleet customers will ...

MAN sets its sights on long distance coach buses

The city bus sector is already partly electrified, so bus manufacturers are setting their sights set on the intercity and touring sector. Developers at MAN Truck & Bus are now working on the coach of the future. We spoke ...

BorgWarner announces several major orders

The US American automotive supplier BorgWarner has announced several new e-mobility contracts, ranging from supplying drive systems from the US and Europe all the way to China. For the US American and European market deals, BorgWarner has been contracted ...

APC to invest £77 million in e-mobility research

The Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) is investing £77 million in seven UK-based automotive collaborative research and development projects. The funding pot is made up of £38.4 million from the government, combined with £38.7 million from the automotive industry. Much ...

Volvo’s Nova Bus secures massive order for electric buses in Canada

Nova Bus, the North American subsidiary of Volvo, has received a group order to supply up to 1,229 battery-electric buses to ten public transport operators in Quebec, Canada. The vehicles are set to be delivered between 2025 and 2027. ...

Collins Bus presents electric school bus

REV Group subsidiary Collins Bus has announced that its Ford E-Transit Type A School Bus is now available for orders. E-Transit is the first Type A School Bus on an electric powertrain from a full-line automaker. The new electric ...

Forsee Power presents batteries for medium trucks and small buses

French battery manufacturer Forsee Power has introduced a new high-voltage system for electric vehicles at the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo in California. The new Zen Lite battery system with NMC cells is primarily targeted at 350-volt vehicles such as ...

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