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A new tender in Santiago de Chile has been issued in mid-December 2023 to renew 30 percent of the public transport system Red Movilidad. The tender provides for the introduction in the network of 1,200 zero emission buses (out of 2,100 new buses) and ’embraces’ 121 routes (15 of those ar...

ACEA announced that Domenico Nucera, President of the Bus Business Unit in Iveco Group, has been appointed as Chairperson of its bus and coach division. Domenico Nucera has been elected for a one-year term. DAF Trucks President Harald Seidel has just been elected Chairman of Commercial Vehicles in t...

The German bus and coach market grew 12.5% in 2023 according to figures by the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) reported by German trade media omnibus.news. Last year 753 new electric buses over 8 ton were registered, growing 20% 632 on 2022. In 2021 the figure was 555. 2023 has been a boomin...

The fleet of DPP (Dopravní podnik hlavního města Prahy), manager of the public transport network in Prague, is being renewed, again with electrically driven vehicles. DPP has in fact signed an eight-year contract with Skoda for the purchase of 40 new trams, model 52 T with an option for a furth...

Electric buses are becoming widespread in cities around the world. What about Tesla hitting the market with an electric bus model? Let’s start from the end: in November 2023 a Tesla fan page account published on its Facebook page the picture of what can’t be defined other than Tesla Bus....

Mercedes eCitaro. Behind this name lies the first battery-electric bus ever developed by the Daimler Group, built on the basis of the best-seller urban bus range launched in 1997. The Citaro was the first city bus in the world to meet the Euro VI emissions standard in 2012. In November 2019 Daimler ...