The Ghanese government has decided to purchase 800 new buses for the Metro Mass Transit and Inter-City State Transport Corporation (ISCT) companies. All 200 of the buses will operate on compressed natural gas while the 600 others will operate on diesel.
The electric bus production is concentrated at the new premises of Irizar e-mobility in the town of Aduna, Gipuzkoa region. The next batch of vehicles built here are fifteen 100 percent electric buses for Madrid and Barcelona's first four 100% electric articulated buses.
With the capture of these 22 new units for the mainland market, Irizar e-mobility has become the market leader for 100% electric zero-emission buses in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao, and San Sebastián.
STCP (Sociedade de Transportes Colectivos do Porto – Society of Collective Transports of Oporto) has decided to completely renew her fleet of buses by acquiring 173 MAN bus chassis with CNG engines. The buses were bought within the scope of the public tender launched this year by the company, and they will all have their bodies built by the national bodybuilder CaetanoBus.
Van Hool has won a contract in Pau, France, to supply eight Exqui.City buses, also known as "trambuses", powered by hydrogen. The use of hydrogen buses is not only a first for France it is also a world first for a full BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) system with 18-metre-long articulated tram-buses.
Cuatro años después de haber sido iniciado su producción en Colombia para toda Latinoamérica, llegó el momento de actualizar el exitoso bus doble piso cuya base data de 1998 cuando se fabricaba en Brasil como Panorámico DD.