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01 August 2022
Sao Paulo's BRT system operator will have its first 100 electric buses
After ten years without major orders for clean buses, the city of São Paulo expects to receive a batch of battery-electric models. There are 100 units that were acquired by the company Viação Metrópole Paulista, which operates in the east and south...
22 July 2022
Brazil's BGS Group ordered 92 Marcopolo buses, including 44 Paradiso 1800 DD G8
The GBS Group celebrates nearly 90 years of activities, which under its umbrella encompasses Viação Garcia and Brasil Sul, from the Paraná city of Londrina. The company first announced an investment to incorporate 150 buses a few days before the...
22 July 2022
Peruvian Anita Tours receives 15 Scania f310 buses bodied by Irizar for operation in mines
Anita Tours is a Peruvian company born in Cajamarca and has specialized in personnel transportation, mainly for the mining, agro-industrial and road infrastructure sectors. With a very important presence in the extractive industries, it has provided...
14 July 2022
Agrale electric bus completed its development by Equipmake and is heading to Buenos Aires
Nearly three years of development and numerous test kilometers in the UK have come to an end for the electric Agrale bus, prepared by the British specialists at Equipmake. The prototype leaves the Norfolk facility northeast of London and begins its...
14 July 2022
Mercedes-Benz will start manufacturing its eO500U electric bus chassis in Brazil at the end of 2022
The green light has arrived and Daimler Truck has announced that it will start production of the Mercedes-Benz eO500U electric bus chassis, which it first presented in August 2021. Plans aim to build the first platforms between November and December...
12 July 2022
Mercedes-Benz presents in Mexico its new Sprinter range with Bluetec 6 engines
Twenty years, more than 45,000 units sold and a market share that exceeds 40% in its segment, are the best letter of introduction of the Sprinter in Mexico. The global light utility vehicle par excellence, also proves to have been successful in the...
12 July 2022
Mexico City Metrobus Line 3 will have 60 articulated electric buses
The largest metropolis in Latin America never stops and counting the population of the Valley of Mexico City, about 22 million inhabitants must move through urban and interurban roads. This requires having a system with a high dose of integration and...
08 July 2022
Flixbus Brasil obtains resolution from authorities to operate regular routes in the country
In October 2021, Flixbus Transporte e Tecnologia do Brasil Ltda., a subsidiary of the German mobility and passenger transport giant Flixbus, announced the start of operations in the country, together with its ally Expresso Adamantina to connect São...
08 July 2022
Transportes Línea from Perú receives 12 new Volvo b380r buses with Irizar i6S bodywork
Nearly twenty years ago, the Peruvian companies Transportes Vulkano, Transportes el Águila and Transportes del Norte agreed to merge with the aim of becoming the largest company in its segment in the north of the Incas. Under the name of Transportes...
28 June 2022
Mercedes-Benz specifies order for 30 Marcopolo G8 double-decker buses
Expo Foro 2022 fue mucho más que el reencuentro de la industria latinoamericana del autobús, en una de sus principales citas a nivel regional. Una muestra que no solo permitió presentar las novedades con las que se busca llevar al transporte de...
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