Busworld Europe news

The bus world mourns the loss of Wim van der Leegte, a self-made entrepreneur who, at the age of 76, left behind a legacy of more than 100 companies and 16,000 employees. VDL Bus & Coach being one of them. His remarkable journey serves as an...

The Brussels public transport company MIVB/STIB has signed a framework agreement with Daimler Buses for the purchase of 80 electric buses. An order for 36 eCitaros was immediately placed within this agreement.

VDL Bus & Coach has tested a New Generation Citea LF 122 in what the company calls 'the MaxiMile Challenge'. A test in line with SORT-2 deployment. The targets set for this test in realistic operating conditions: more than 24 hours of continuous...

For the procurement of 500 electric and fuel cell buses in Italy are 8 manufacturers chosen as preferred supplier. The choice has made by issuing a tender earlier this year by the Italian procurement agency 'Consip'. The lucky winners are: Karsan...

The board of directors of De Lijn has given the green light for a new order for charging infrastructure for its depots. In concrete terms, this concerns the approval of a framework agreement for a maximum of 1,600 charging points with two suppliers...

Scania has received a large new order for hybrid buses from Canary Islands-based public transportation company Transportes Interurbanos de Tenerife S.A.U. (TITSA). The order contains no less than 231 buses, including 173 hybrid-electric buses, giving...

As part of the Norwegian Finnmark 2023 tender, Iveco Bus has delivered 13 Crossway to the operator Connect Bus Norge AS, which has confirmed an additional order for 2 more units to be delivered in 2024. The Crossway units will be running in Alta, the...

Busworld has won an award for the first time in its history. And the whole team is thrilled about it.

For the first time ever, Busworld Europe hosted the European Zero Emission Bus Conference, an event which attracted over 430 participants from across the globe to discuss the status and plans for transitioning the European bus and coach sectors to...

Alexander Dennis (ADL) launched its next generation of battery-electric buses for the UK and Ireland with the unveiling of the new Enviro100EV small bus and Enviro400EV double decker. The new buses have been engineered fully in house as zero-emission...