The Dutch manufacturer has announced that its Citea range has collectively travelled over 200 million kilometres since the first iteration was introduced in 2013.

Two Dutch bus builders, Ebusco Holding N.V., based in Deurne, and VDL Bus & Coach B.V., headquartered in Valkenswaard, have been awarded the Red Dot Award for their 3.0 and Citea models. VDL has previously won the award for its Citea bus in 2017.

Two 37-tonne CF Electric tractors from DAF Trucks N.V. have become the first battery-electric heavy articulating trucks to be operating in the UK

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.