Busworld Europe news

Castrosua Group has been awarded a tender for the City of Krakow for 49 units on Scania chassis. In collaboration with Scania Polska, the company will supply two batches of 12 metre and 10.6 metre buses for the Polish operator Mobilis, part of the...

Ballard Power Systems announced multiple purchase orders totalling 70 FCmove-HD hydrogen fuel cell engines from its customer Wrightbus, the UK-based bus manufacturer deploying hydrogen-powered buses in the UK and Europe. Ballard expects delivery of...

In-der-City-Bus GmbH (ICB), the public transport operator in the German city of Frankfurt am Main, has placed an order for 9 Solaris Urbino 18 hydrogen buses. There are already 23 hydrogen-powered Solaris buses running in this metropolis, which were...

The board of 4 curators appointed at Van Hool which was declared bankrupt by the Mechelen Business Court last Monday, April 8, 2024, has decided to make a quick restart of the company possible. The trustees discussed and finally accepted the binding...

Belgium Van Hool is declared bankrupt. It is (almost) the end of a few months of negative news from the bus, coach and trailer manufacturer. The reason: the money was gone and the debt has grown up to as reported 400 million euros. Attemps to rescue...

ZF Friedrichshafen AG has achieved its financial targets set for 2023, as it states in a press release. The company increased its sales by 6.5 percent to €46.6 billion (2022: €43.8 billion). Adjusted EBIT amounted to €2.4 billion (2022: €2.0 billion)...

The new chassis is multi purpose with the possibility to install the batteries within the chassis and makes it suitable for coaches. Volvo Buses extends its European electromobility offer to include operations outside and between cities. Build on the...

The Belgian operator Multiobus from the city of Tienen recently put its first two Mercedes-Benz eCitaro G into use. These two new electric articulated buses are part of an order by Multiobus for in total ten eCitaro's and are also the first Mercedes...

Solaris Bus & Coach has been selected to supply 22 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses to Île-de-France Mobilités. With the support of the CATP (Centrale d’Achat du Transport Public), Île-de-France Mobilités launched a tender for the purchase and...

Belgium bus and coach manufacturer Van Hool is in financial trouble and has presented the outlines of a "Recovery Plan". This plan would result in the departure of about 1,100 employees over a three year period. The company expressed its intention to...