Oakland Airport (OAK) is introducing its first battery electric shuttle buses to its parking shuttle fleet. Five electric BYD K7M buses, sourced from RIDE, are entering service and will serve passenger and employee parking lots at the airport. These five are the first battery-electric buses to be put in service... Read more →

WeRide has launched a paid commercial service with its Level-4 robobus in central Guangzhou. This marks the city’s first fare-charging autonomous bus line in its downtown core—a step toward mass commercialization of WeRide’s Level-4 autonomous vehicles. This driverless robobus route covers 13.6km in a loop, starting and ending at Meidong... Read more →

Ten Mercedes-Benz eCitaro G fully electric articulated buses with the new pure hydrogen “H₂ mode” drive mode will be put into operation by the city bus fleet of Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG (SSB) in 2025. SSB has been a development partner of Daimler Buses for the Mercedes-Benz eCitaro G fuel cell... Read more →

With the handover of five battery-electric Mercedes‑Benz eCitaro 12‑meter solo buses, all solo buses from the Darmstadt-based mobility service provider HEAG mobilo are electrically powered. The new three-door eCitaro is equipped with the NMC3 battery generation. Each of the five solo buses, with their six installed battery packs, achieve a... Read more →

The State of California has awarded $500 million for educational agencies to buy zero-emission school buses and chargers, furthering the state’s lead in having the most zero-emission school buses in the nation. The Zero-Emissions School Bus and Infrastructure (ZESBI) project has selected 133 educational agencies to receive 1,000 zero-emission school... Read more →

California’s Clean Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP) is surging with voucher redemptions up 177% from 2023 to 2024. Early 2025 data shows continued momentum as fleet electrification accelerates statewide. This February alone, more than 200 HVIP-funded zero-emission trucks and buses were deployed with $31 million in incentives. HVIP... Read more →

The Irizar i6S Efficient Hydrogen coach has successfully completed a round trip between Ormaiztegi, where the company is headquartered, and the town of Briançon in the French Alps. The total distance covered was 2,500 km, with the vehicle passing through various towns in the Pyrenees and Provence region before arriving... Read more →

Operator VR Sverige AB has ordered 81 Solaris Urbino 15 LE electric buses. These vehicles, homologated in Class II, will serve suburban routes around Stockholm. Deliveries are scheduled for the second quarter of 2026. The Solaris Urbino 15 LE electric model has been designed for both urban and suburban transport.... Read more →

Daimler Buses is planning further growth in the field of e-mobility—also beyond vehicles and infrastructure. To this end, the company is introducing new services to extend the useful life of electrically powered buses: For example, Daimler Buses is now offering its customers the remanufacturing of electric bus batteries. In addition,... Read more →

Daimler Buses has acquired a stake of 49% in the company SINOS GmbH, based in Regensburg. SINOS specializes in software solutions for the operation of electrified city bus fleets and in particular offers intelligent charging management systems. This allows, for example, e-buses to be charged when the load on the... Read more →

Zero-emission bus manufacturer Wrightbus unveiled the latest version of its flagship hydrogen double-deck bus. The upgraded Streetdeck Hydroliner Gen 2.0 will be built in its Ballymena factory, where overall production will reach record levels this year. The new vehicle is more fuel efficient, has a greater range, costs less and... Read more →

Solaris Bus & Coach has delivered the first of 137 ordered hydrogen buses to Bologna and Ferrara, Italy. This marks the initial phase of a large-scale order placed by the transport operator TPER at the end of 2023. Under this contract, Solaris will supply 137 Urbino 12 hydrogen buses for... Read more →

Nuvve Holding announced a new collaborative pilot program with Resource Innovations led by ComEd to explore the benefits of bidirectional charging using electric school buses within ComEd’s service area powering more than 4.3 million customers across northern Illinois. Scheduled to run through the end of Q4 2025, the initiative will... Read more →

The public transport operator Asti Servizi Pubblici S.p.A. (in brief: ASP S.p.A.) in the Piedmont region in Italy is receiving the first battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eCitaro K buses that have been manufactured since the start of series production in autumn 2024. The four compact premiere vehicles with a length of just... Read more →

Warsaw has one of the largest electric bus fleets in Europe, with the vast majority consisting of Solaris vehicles. The city’s operator, MZA (Miejskie Zakłady Autobusowe), has decided to further expand its zero-emission fleet; representatives of Solaris Bus & Coach and MZA have signed an agreement for the delivery of... Read more →

Daimler Truck sold 460,409 trucks and buses on Group level in 2024 (2023: 526,053). Sales of battery-electric vehicles increased to 4,035 units (2023: 3,443)—a 0.9% share compared to 0.7% in 2023. The segment Trucks North America contributed 190,428 units to the Group’s overall unit sales (2023: 195,014). Mercedes-Benz Trucks sold... Read more →

Thomas Built Buses, a leading manufacturer of school buses in North America, launched the second-generation Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley battery-electric school bus. As the second iteration of its flagship electric school bus, originally introduced in 2017, the Jouley incorporates customer-driven improvements and technological advancements to create a product that excels in... Read more →

A year and a half ago, Solaris announced that its 2026 Strategic Plan included its entrance in the North American market, with a value proposition consisting of pure zero-emission buses (ZEBs). Solaris has just achieved a milestone step towards the execution of its strategy, signing its first contract for ZEB... Read more →

IVECO BUS, the urban, intercity and tourist bus brand of Iveco Group, and the BusGruppe purchasing group, the consortium comprising Verkehrsbetriebe Bachstein, CeBus, KVG Stade, Omnibusbetrieb von Ahrenschildt, Pülm Reisen and Reisebüro Schmidt, have signed a 5-year framework agreement for the supply of up to 580 city buses, of which... Read more →

Solaris has delivered to Berlin the Urbino 18 electric bus, the world's first series-produced to feature a battery passport. The model is equipped with Solaris High Energy batteries with a capacity of about 700 kWh. It is the first of 50 articulated electric buses ordered by BVG Berlin at the... Read more →

Solaris Bus & Coach has signed a contract with Keolis Sverige, one of Sweden’s largest transport operators, to supply 46 electric buses. The order includes 19 Solaris Urbino 12 electric buses and 27 Solaris Urbino 15 LE electric models, which will operate on routes in the scenic Dalarna region. The... Read more →

Blue Bird Corporation, the leader in electric and low-emission school buses, lauds the U.S. expansion of Micro Bird’s manufacturing operations to build small and midsize buses in New York State. Micro Bird, a 50/50 joint venture of Blue Bird Corporation and Girardin, has confirmed the purchase of the Nova Bus... Read more →

The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) Board of Directors approved the purchase of 50 new zero-emission buses, marking a major milestone in an ongoing effort to transition the bus fleet to 100% zero-emission technology by 2040. The purchase, unanimously approved by the board on Monday, 25 November, includes 40 hydrogen... Read more →

Daimler Buses has been confirmed by Hamburger Hochbahn AG as the sole supplier of up to 350 fully electric Mercedes-Benz eCitaro and eCitaro G city buses. Over the next five years, the new solo and articulated buses are to be delivered to the northern German city of Hamburg. The Mercedes‑Benz... Read more →

Since the presentation of the first eCitaro, Daimler Buses has consistently fulfilled this promise with the switch from the NMC1 battery type to the second-generation NMC2, right up to the latest NMC3 battery type. The next step is now the switch to the fourth generation of lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt batteries. The new... Read more →

Daimler Buses is expanding the range of applications for the Mercedes‑Benz eCitaro fuel cell. In future, an electric bus equipped with a fuel cell as a range extender can be run on hydrogen as the sole energy source in certain usage scenarios, thanks to a new, additional operating strategy. When... Read more →

Daimler Buses is presenting a near-production prototype of the all-electric Mercedes‑Benz eIntouro interurban bus for the first time at the 2024 eMobility Days in Berlin. The high-floor bus is based on the familiar diesel-powered Intouro, but is equipped with a battery-electric drive instead. As a result, Daimler Buses is now... Read more →

The Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) has launched a battery-free Fuel Cell Dominant Proof of Concept project under the FTA-sponsored Transit Vehicle Innovation Deployment Centers (TVIDC) program. This initiative, featuring fuel cell technology patented by Nimbus Power Systems, aims to transform zero-emission public transit by introducing a more... Read more →

Solaris has won a tender for 45 double-articulated Urbino 24 electric buses, that will be integrated into the transport network of the Belgian city of Liège. The Urbino 24 electric buses are exceptional not only for their length but also for their MetroStyle design option. This is the largest tender... Read more →

Medenbach Traffic GmbH has taken possession of the first ten of 57 Mercedes-Benz scheduled-service buses with hybrid drive at the Mannheim bus plant. The overall order is made up of 39 Citaro hybrid inter-city buses, 13 Citaro hybrid articulated buses and five Citaro hybrid buses in the short Citaro K... Read more →

The City of Szczecin, Poland has ordered 14 electric buses from Solaris. The order includes the Urbino electric model in two lengths: four 12-meter Urbino 12 electric buses and ten articulated Urbino 18 electric buses. The vehicles will be operated by Szczecin’s public transport company, Szczecińskie Przedsiębiorstwo Autobusowe Klonowica sp.... Read more →

VinFast and the Durango Drivers’ Union in Mexico signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on the green transition of public transport, including the potential purchase of 3,000 VF 5 electric cars and 300 electric buses by Durango Driver’s Union for operation in Mexico. Under the agreement, both parties... Read more →

New Flyer of America Inc. (New Flyer), a subsidiary of NFI Group Inc. (NFI) and a leader in zero-emission electric mobility solutions, announced a new firm order for 108 zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell-electric Xcelsior CHARGE FC 40-foot transit buses from San Mateo County Transit (SamTrans), marking the largest single fuel... Read more →

Transdev Nederland Holding placed an order with Solaris Bus & Coach for 96 zero-emission battery buses. Deliveries are scheduled for the last quarter of 2025. The fleet of battery-powered Solaris buses will serve public transportation in the province of Utrecht, central Netherlands. T Transdev Nederland Holding is one of the... Read more →

Solaris will deliver 30 electric buses to the operator Arriva in the Netherlands. 26 Urbino 12 electric and 4 articulated Urbino 18 electric will serve traffic in West-Brabant region and will join Arriva’s fleet in 2025. The investment is part of Arriva’s plan to make the entire bus fleet in... Read more →

Toshiba Corporation has agreed with Kawasaki Tsurumi Rinko Bus Co., Ltd. (Rinko Bus) and Drive Electro Technology Co., Ltd. (Drive Electro Technology) jointly to study a demonstration project to confirm the effectiveness of a super-rapid charging battery powered by a pantograph. The project is expected to start operation in November... Read more →

IVECO BUS, the urban, intercity and tourist bus brand of Iveco Group, received three new contracts for electric mobility solutions in France. In total, 31 hydrogen fuel cell buses and 20 battery electric buses have been ordered since the beginning of September. Cannes Lérins Urban Community ordered 12 GX 337... Read more →

The US Environmental Protection Agency announced the latest round of funding from the Clean School Bus Rebate Program with up to $965 million available to school districts. This fourth round of funding will build on the previous nearly $3 billion in investments being distributed nationwide to further improve air quality... Read more →

California, New York and Illinois are the top three states for total electric school buses, according to a new analysis released by US PIRG Education Fund and Environment America Research & Policy Center. The three states also lead the nation in combined federal and state investments into electric bus fleets.... Read more →

Allison Transmission and Cummins will integrate and certify a Cummins B-Series engine with the Allison eGen Flex electric hybrid propulsion system for the transit market. The integration will meet the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles – Phase 3 and provide a reliable low emission propulsion solution in... Read more →

On September 9, the World Electric Vehicle Day, the 2000th electric bus appeared on Moscow streets. The jubilee electric bus was assembled at the Sokolniki Car Repair and Construction Plant (SVARZ). The vehicle will operate on the route M3 “Serebryany Bor - Budyonnogo Prospekt”, connecting the north-west, center and east... Read more →

California is launching a new statewide funding program that will put 1,000 new, zero-emission school buses on the road. The program will distribute $500 million to school districts and other educational entities to replace aging school buses with zero-emission vehicles and purchase needed infrastructure. The Zero-Emissions School Bus and Infrastructure... Read more →

Solaris will deliver eight articulated hydrogen buses to the city of Belfort, France. The Urbino 18 hydrogen unit will be delivered to the customer in the second half of 2025. The vehicles were purchased by the public entity SMTC (Le Syndicat Mixte des Transports en Commun du Territoire de Belfort),... Read more →

An additional $200 million is now available in New York to school districts and bus operators for zero-emission school buses through the second installment of funding from the $4.2-billion Clean Water, Clean Air, and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act (Bond Act). The funding, distributed through the New York School Bus... Read more →

Solaris continues to supply hydrogen buses to the German market. This time the customer is REVG Kerpen, which has ordered a total of 26 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses. The manufacturer has already delivered the first two units to Kerpen, marking the debut of Solaris buses in the city. Deliveries... Read more →

On 12 June 2024, the EU announced import tariffs on Chinese EVs ranging from 17.4% up to 38.1%. (Earlier post.) The justification for such trade tariffs is an unfair subsidization by the Chinese government, which the Commission claims undermines the domestic (European) automotive industries. However, Mika Takahashi, Technology Analyst at... Read more →

Martin Uher Bus, a private transport company, has selected Solaris to supply the first hydrogen buses for its fleet. Ten Urbino 12 hydrogen vehicles will operate public transport in the Central Bohemian region around Prague. The buses are scheduled for delivery in the end of 2025. The manufacturer will supply... Read more →

Daimler Buses is delivering 10 eCitaro electric articulated buses to HEAG mobile in Darmstadt. With the handover of the electric buses, the share of electric buses in the fleet of the mobility service provider will increase to around 65%. The new eCitaro is equipped with the NMC3 battery generation. This... Read more →

The call for tenders commission of Nantes Métropole has awarded the contract for the acquisition of new battery-electric buses to the manufacturer Iveco France to replace end-of-life buses and support the development of the Naolib network. Semitan has been mandated by Nantes Métropole to lead this acquisition project, which is... Read more →

Solaris has secured a new contract in the French market. The manufacturer will supply four 12-meter Urbino hydrogen buses to Artois Mobilités for TADAO transport network in northern France. The contract will be completed at the beginning of 2025. Solaris Bus & Coach’s offer was selected in a tender issued... Read more →