Brisbane City Council has announced European vehicle manufacturer HESS, in partnership with local bus manufacturer Volgren, and electric infrastructure company ABB, as then preferred tenderer for the design and build of the Brisbane Metro pilot […]
In a move that many in the industry have been expecting, the Dunn Group has divested itself of Telfords, the bus company with which it established its Australian presence, selling the operation to Kinetic, the […]
A British subsidiary of Australian company,Transit Systems, has won a major London transport contract which significantly is set to be operated with fully electric double decker buses. Transport for London (TfL) has awarded Tower Transit, […]
VW has pitted itself against its Euro counterparts like Benz and Renault in the mini bus sector with the unveiling of a mini bus version of its Crafter van in either a 15-seat front drive […]
Volvo has demonstrated an autonomous drive electric bus at a bus depot near Gothenburg in Sweden, which it claims is the first demo of an autonomous bus at a real depot. The depot is operated […]
In this issue of Coach & Bus we give you a full rundown on Busworld in Belgium and our own BusVic Expo in Melbourne, where as we say electrics were the star turn at both […]
Australia’s largest bus body builder, Volgren, has celebrated the roll-out of the 5000th bus built at its Dandenong manufacturing headquarters in Melbourne. The milestone bus, an Optimus Low-Floor Route Bus, was handed over to operator […]
The ACT will be adding its first electric bus to Canberra’s ACTION bus fleet with a new Yutong Electric E12 bus to be operating all over Canberra. ACT Minister for Transport Chris Steel said transport, […]
Toyota has announced it will supply up to 20 specially designed “Tokyo 2020 Version” e-Palette vehicles to support athlete mobility at the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020. The vehicles will operate in the automated, […]
Fuso will unveil two new and upgraded buses on its stand at the Tokyo Motor Show this week, with both a new version of its Aero Queen large bus and Rosa light bus. Fuso says […]
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