New Flyer has received an order for up to 150 battery-electric buses through the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority of Buffalo, New York (NFTA-Metro). To start with, the NFI subsidiary will deliver ten e-buses of type Xcelsior Charge.
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ElectrReon announced the launch of the first fully operational e-bus utilising the company’s wireless charging infrastructure in the city of Visby, Sweden. The Smartroad Gotland project started in 2020 and is one of four Electric Road demonstrators in Sweden.
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One of Australia’s leading bus manufacturers, Custom Denning, has selected Siemens to supply its charging stations and management solution Sicharge UC. The system will support the manufacturer’s future electric buses with trials now underway.
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Heliox introduces its latest charging system, ‘Flex 180 kW,’ designed for high-powered depots and overnight charging across multiple vehicles. Multiobus in Belgium already uses the charging system with GVB Amsterdam and Transdev Hermes in Eindhoven to follow shortly.
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Lion Smart and Vicinity Motor Corp. are expanding their cooperation as Lion receives a follow-up order to integrate a customized battery system solution. The total order volume is in the upper six-figure range, the company reports.
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The US e-bus maker Proterra says it received an order from Miami-Dade County to deliver another 42 electric buses. This time around, however, the County will also install one of the largest fleet charging systems in the States with 75 Proterra chargers across three bus depots.
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The Spanish city of Zaragoza has ordered 68 electric buses from Irizar, including 51 solo and 17 articulated buses. Irizar says it is the largest e-bus order to date. Public transport operator Avanza will put the e-buses into operation from late 2022.
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The electric bus cooperation between BYD and ADL announces the largest order in the UK to date. The public transport operator, RATP Dev in London, ordered 195 new electric buses from BYD-ADL, including 127 double-deckers and 68 solo buses.
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BYD UK and Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) confirmed that they are adding additional charging options to their range of electric buses built in the UK. Apart from AC charging, buses may now also DC charge.
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BYD has unveiled its first electric articulated bus produced in Brazil. By October of this year, the manufacturer, together with partner Marcopolo, plans to deliver twelve units for use on Brazil’s first all-electric bus corridor in São José dos Campos.
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Solaris expands its position in the Romanian public transport market. In a tender issued by the Ministry of Public Works, Development and Administration, Solaris has won a major order for 123 electric buses out of 131 put out to tender.
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The Anaheim Transportation Network (ATN) wants to become California’s first all-electric transit operator. While we leave that claim open, they will be among the first to charge their e-buses with solar energy, also using Tesla equipment.
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Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) has launched a tender for 210 low-emission buses as part of its fleet renewal plan. The transit company divided the tender into five lots with a total value of 116 million euros.
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Volvo’s Canadian subsidiary Nova Bus has received an order from TransLink for 15 new electric buses. These will complement two e-buses from Nova Bus that have already been in service since 2019 for the transport company active in the Greater Vancouver area.
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Ireland’s national transport authority NTA published a tender for up to 800 all-electric double-decker buses for use in the country’s large cities, as well as on some town bus services. Buying is to start in the second half of 2022 over a period of five years.
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Keolis Nederland has put 246 all-electric buses into operation in the provinces of Gelderland and Overijssel. This is the bulk of the order for 259 e-buses awarded to BYD at the end of 2019. The remaining 13 battery buses are scheduled for delivery in spring 2021.
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Hamburger Hochbahn, the largest local transport provider in the German city of Hamburg, has charged Siemens with installing charging infrastructure at one of the largest electric bus depots in Europe.
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BYD has opened its first Canadian electric bus assembly plant. The approximately 14,000 square metre plant in Newmarket near Toronto will initially assemble buses for the Toronto Transit Commission, which has ordered ten electric buses with an option for a further 30.
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BYD has been commissioned to supply a further 183 electric buses to Santiago de Chile. The Chinese manufacturer had already delivered 100 electric buses to the Chilean capital last year, as had competitor Yutong.
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BYD was recently commissioned to deliver the first of what will eventually be a fleet of around 1,500 all-electric taxis in the city of Colón in Panama in cooperation with Ensa Servicios and Traservi.
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Rome wants to make a new start with small electric buses, now that a prototype for a modernised electric minibus called Gulliver has been presented. The operation of electric buses was allegedly stopped in 2014 due to problems with the batteries and was discontinued after another short operating phase in 2017.
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The Californian public transport operator MTD has committed to electrify its entire fleet by 2030. They currently maintain a fleet of 112 buses, 14 of which are already electric.
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Chinese manufacturer Yutong has been tasked with supplying 100 electric buses of the E12 variety to Santiago de Chile. The order follows another order, where the city ordered 100 electric buses from BYD.
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The French city of Orleans is planning to set up a fully electric public transportation network by 2024. This is based on a contract set up by the 22 communities in the Orleans area with public transport operator Keolis.
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The biggest city of the US state of New Mexico has cancelled an order with BYD for the delivery of electric buses, citing technical problems, which they say could not be solved even after an inspection.
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Wrightbus present what they claim to be the world’s first double-decker fuel cell bus at the Euro Bus Expo. The StreetDeck model uses a fuel cell from Ballard to power a Siemens drivetrain. And, Wrightbus has got an exclusive client at hand.
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The Portuguese bus manufacturer CaetanoBus will receive fuel cell systems from Toyota. The first demonstration buses by CaetanoBus with Toyota’s FC technology are scheduled to roll off the assembly line within slightly more than a year.
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BYD has again expanded their electric bus factory in the Californian Lancaster. Another five million dollars will flow into the newly completed 9,290 m² depot, which will bring the total investment cost for the facility to more than 53 million dollars.
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The Swedish bus operator Nobina has ordered 26 electric buses from BYD, which will be delivered in the summer of 2019. With the new order, BYD counts more than 100 orders for their buses in Scandinavia.
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The largest bus company in Israel has ordered seven fully electric buses from BYD to serve in Jerusalem. 17 electric buses by the Chinese manufacturer have been on the road in Haifa since 2017, for which the new order is a follow-up.
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