Volvo Buses has received an order for three electric hybrid buses from the German university city of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. The new buses are of the Volvo Electric Hybrid type, they will become operational in the spring of 2018. The vehicles will become part of the fleet of Göttinger Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH (GÖVB).
Likinsky Bus Factory (LiAZ), part of the GAZ Group, has supplied 100 urban, low-floor LiAZ-5292 buses to Nizhny Novgorod. The buses have a lenth of12m and a carrying capacity of 108 people. The LiAZ-5292 buses are intended for routes with intensive passenger traffic.
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.