Highland Electric Transportation (Highland) of Hamilton, Massachusetts, a provider of turnkey electric fleet solutions has been awarded a contract by the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Board of Education (Maryland) to change its entire school bus fleet to electric, starting with 326 school buses over the next four years.

Three years after the launch of small-series production, deliveries of Daimler Trucks' all-electric light-duty truck Fuso eCanter have now surpassed 200 vehicles.

An order for 56 Enviro500 three-axle double deck buses from Alexander Dennis Ltd of Larbert, UK by Hong Kong’s largest bus operator, The Kowloon Motor Bus Co (1933) Ltd (KMB) has resulted in orders of the current generation model (launched in 2012) to exceed 2,500 units.

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.

Electric van and bus manufacturing start up, Arrival Ltd of London, UK, is to begin trials of its first zero emission bus with First Bus in UK cities from this Autumn.

Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, is set to transform its public transport fleet with delivery of 380 BMC Procity CNG buses powered by L9N natural gas engines supplied by Cummins.

North American transit bus manufacturer, Nova Bus, has confirmed Chicago Transit Board approval for the purchase of up to 600, 40-foot clean-diesel buses.

Girteka Logistics, a major European logistics company based in Lithuania, has placed an order for 2,000 of the latest generation, Volvo FH trucks.

Hamburg operator, Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein GmbH is to acquire eight Irizar ie bus zero-emission vehicles, adding to existing orders from ICB Frankfurt and Rheinbahn Düsseldorf.

Electric bus manufacturer, BYD Co Ltd of Shenzhen has expanded its footprint in Europe with a first order from Romania.

The world’s first fleet of double deck hydrogen buses, built by Ballymena-based Wrightbus, officially began operations on January 28 in Aberdeen.

One of Turkey’s fastest-growing bus and coach builders, Anadolu Isuzu, which in December last year unveiled a new purpose-built CNG-powered 13m coach with its trademark two names Kendo and Interliner, recently delivered six units to the REK Bitola Power Plant in North Macedonia.