Busworld South East Asia formed the stage for a special handover of four Laksana coaches to Bangladesh. During a ceremony at the JIExpo Kemayoran (Jakarta) Indonesian Minister for Foreign Affairs Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi and the Ambassador for Bangladesh in Indonesia, H.E. Major General Azmal Kabir, performed the symbolic hand over of four brand new Laksana SR2 XHD Prime Legacy coaches to be operated by Ena Transport in Bangladesh.
Eberspaecher Climate Control Systems Bus & Coach to equip more than 40 e-buses from Chinese manufacturers BYD and Golden Dragon with the electric roof-mounted air-conditioning system AC 136 AE HP. The zero-emission vehicles will be used by Israeli transport companies in Tel Aviv, Haifa and, for the first time, in Jerusalem.
Tribus developed a wheelchair conversion kit for the new Volkswagen e-Crafter. The 100% electric wheelchair minibus will be available as a 8+1 with a lowered front entrance and TriflexAIR foldings seats combined with 2 wheelchair places.
Scania is delivering its first bi-articulated buses in Brazil to the city of Curitiba. Already in the 1970s Curitiba pioneered with Bus Rapid Transit Systems (BRT)and became a model for modern urban public transport systems throughout the world. Curitiba has recently initiated a programme to renew its BRT bus fleet.
15 electric Solaris Urbino 18 buses will enlarge the fleet of Berlin’s public transport operator BVG. The first articulated electric vehicles in Germany’s capital city will join the fleet of 20 electric standard length vehicles which Berlin had ordered in the previous years. The total value of the contract, including charging infrastructure, amounts to 13,2 million Euro.