International
Volvo GPS-steered buses
Buses that automatically switch to electric power and drive at low speed in sensitive areas are becoming a reality with new technology currently being tested in Volvo’s electric hybrid buses.
Hybrid
Bus News
Go-Ahead orders flywheels
Go-Ahead Group has ordered 500 Gyrodrive systems from GKN Hybrid Power. The agreement covers the supply of the complete system including a GKN hybrid power flywheel, EVO electric motor, a GKN designed and manufactured gearbox, […]
Bus News
Electric quick charge hybrid Volvo trial in Stockholm
SWEDEN Stockholm is set to demonstrate and evaluate quick-charge hybrid buses.
International
Five Volvo hybrids and five ambulance coaches for Uddevalla Omnibus
SWEDEN: Uddevalla Omnibus has purchased five hybrid buses and a quintet of ambulance coaches from Volvo Buses. All of them will operate on bio-diesel and are due to enter service with the West coast operator […]
Bus News
More Stagecoach hybrids
Voted Top City Operator and UK Bus Operator of the Year at the UK Bus Awards, Stagecoach Manchester has introduced 13 Alexander Dennis Enviro400H hybrids to route 256 between Trafford and Manchester city centre. Speaking […]
Bus News
Wright StreetLite achieves Low Carbon status
The Wrightbus StreetLite Micro Hybrid range has achieved Low Carbon Emission Bus Certification and is therefore eligible for the additional fuel subsidy of 6p per km in England and 14p per km in Scotland.
News
Volvo: future electromobility on show at Kortrijk
Volvo’s response to increasing interest and growing demand for diesel electric hybrids and electromobility has been to develop a range of highly efficient and practical parallel hybrid buses. The latest of this generation, an articulated […]
International
Volvo sells 200 hybrids to Bogota
Colombia Volvo Bus Latin America has sold 200 hybrid buses to the public transport network of Bogotá, Colombia.
Bus News
Bristol Metrobus favours single-decker hybrids
The Bristol MetroBus service is likely to use single-decker hybrid vehicles, with two sets of doors in an effort to minimise stop dwell time, The Bristol Post reported.
International
Swiss operator commits to a hybrid future
New Volvo hybrids introduced following an extensive two-year trial heralds a technology switch SWITZERLAND AAR bus + bahn in Aarau has purchased 13 Volvo hybrid buses – effectively converting a third of its fleet to […]
