NEW ZEALAND EV fleet and battery storage specialist Zenobē will make its entry into the New Zealand market facilitated by a $20 million investment from New Zealand Green Investment Finance (NZGIF). NZGIF is providing the […]
NETHERLANDS GVB, the public transport operator in Amsterdam, is further expanding its electric fleet with 84 new generation VDL Citeas. The battery-electric vehicles will be delivered from 2023 onwards, and the contract includes an option […]
GERMANY Following on from its recent order for up to 260 Ebusco electric buses, Deutsche Bahn (DB) has awarded a contract for up to 940 buses to MAN as part of the ongoing modernisation of […]
EUROPE A MAN Lion’s City 12 E has travelled more than 2,500 kilometres through Europe, starting in Munich on April 29, to demonstrate the everyday suitability and reliability of the electric bus. As a symbol […]
AUSTRALIA Also in Australia, Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) operator Transit Systems has introduced three new double-deckers to increase capacity on some of the city’s busiest routes, whilst in Western Sydney a fleet of […]
AUSTRALIA Brisbane Metro’s pilot vehicle, a battery-electric bi-articulated bus, has arrived in Australia, two and half years after the initial contract award. The 24.5-metre Hess LighTram 25, built and designed by Swiss vehicle manufacturer HESS, […]
FRANCE Parisian public transport operator RATP announced on 29 April that it would temporarily suspend the use of 149 electric buses made by French manufacturer Bollore’s Bluebus division following two fires. Images of the buses […]
TURKEY Turkish manufacturer Otokar is to supply a fleet of 100 21-metre articulated Kent C buses with 200-passenger capacity to serve the city of Istanbul. Delivery of the buses is being carried out in lots […]
NORTH AMERICA First Student is increasing the number of electric school buses across its operations, in-keeping with one of the commitments made by owner EQT Infrastructure when it took over the business from FirstGroup. The […]
GERMANY Ebusco has been awarded a framework agreement with German operator Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s largest public transport operator, which will make the Dutch manufacturer DB’s primary supplier of zero-emission buses for the 2023-2024 period, with […]
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