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.

New Flyer of America has announced its Xcelsior AV automated transit bus is now in operation at Robotic Research in Clarksburg, Maryland.

Grande West Transportation Group Inc, manufacturer of mid-sized multi-purpose transit vehicles for Canadian and United States markets, has launched an electric version of its Vicinity model, called the Vicinity Lightning Electric Vehicle.

The Canadian Vancouver-based manufacturer of mid-sized multi-purpose transit vehicles, Grande West Transportation Group Inc has now entered the electric bus market with the launch of the Vicinity LT EV.

Grande West Transportation Group Inc, has entered a distribution agreement with Kontrol Energy Corp of Vaughan, to offer BioCloud, a coronavirus detection system in its Vicinity line of buses.

Scottish bus and coach manufacturer, Alexander Dennis Ltd, has welcomed confirmation by the New Zealand Government of its funding of NZD50m (GBP26m) to help councils fully decarbonise their public transport bus fleet by 2035.

Consulting engineers, Ricardo plc, has announced it is to invest GBP2.5m to build a hydrogen development and test facility at its Shoreham Technical Centre in the UK.

Volvo Energy, is the name of a new business area within the Volvo Group in Gothenburg, which aims to strengthen the business life cycle of batteries as well as benefitting the customer by using ‘used batteries’ as a way of charging infrastructure.

Subsidiaries of NFI Group Inc, New Flyer Industries Canada ULC, Manitoba, and New Flyer of America Inc, have successfully completed a battery recycling pilot with lithium-ion battery recycler, Li-Cycle Corporation.

Dana Incorporated has expanded and upgraded its range of Dana TM4 SUMO HP electric motors and inverters, including the HV1000 and HV2500.

Solaris Bus & Coach SA has joined a consortium including battery system manufacturer and supplier to Solaris, and power generation and energy distributor, TAURON Polska Energia SA to implement a project titled ‘Second Life ESS’ aimed at creating a prototype system to store electric energy based on used bus batteries.