VDL will deliver 36 units of its new-generation of battery-electric articulated buses for service beginning in Q1 2024.

The new-generation Citea LE-122 buses, which enter production in late 2022, will serve in the city of Kotka and on routes to nearby Hamina.

Amsterdam city transport operator, GVB, has ordered 44 Citea Electric SLFA-180 articulated buses from VDL Bus & Coach of Valkenswaard.

Paul van Vuuren has succeeded Henk Coppens as CEO of VDL Bus & Coach and senior vice president of VDL Groep.

VDL Bus & Coach is entering public transportation in Latvia following an order for 31 Futuras and 21 MidEuros from Riga-based BBus. The vehicles will also support services in the Saldus and Kuldiga regions.

The new generation VDL Citea city bus range launched on-line last month by VDL Bus & Coach, is a new battery-electric bus design that has been developed completely from scratch and without compromise on range, passenger numbers and cost of ownership.

Two years delayed, due to Covid 19, Dutch bus and coach builder, VDL, is planning to resume its plans to build a dedicated plant for electric bus production in Roeselare, Belgium with construction due to begin in the autumn of 2021.

ROCSYS, Grivix GmbH and VDL Enabling Transport Solutions are working together to develop a robotic charging solution for Heavy Duty Charging under the grant-funded Eurostars project, Autocharge.

Kiel transport operator, KVG Kieler Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH in Germany has ordered 20 more Citea SLF-120 Electric buses from VDL Bus & Coach NV of Eindhoven, Netherlands in addition to the 47 articulated electric buses it has already acquired.

The first New Generation Citea from VDL Bus & Coach BV has been ordered by the Koiviton Auto Group in Finland for operation in the 2021 ‘European Green Capital’ of the city of Lahti.

VDL Bus & Coach BV is to present its new generation of electric Citeas at the Busworld exhibition in Brussels next October.

Bus and coach builder, VDL Bus & Coach BV of Valkenswaard, and ElringKlinger AG, have agreed on a strategic partnership to develop and industrialise fuel cell stacks and systems for mobile and stationary applications.