The importance of fire suppression systems in vehicles can be seen first-hand in January this year, with an electric double-decker bus catching fire in Wimbledon, UK.

Bluebus is set to ship thirty of its 6-metre electric buses to Turin, Italy, to its local distributor Indcar, marking its debut in the Italian market.

Annual sales of trucks  and buses in Argentina of 6t gvw and above held up remarkably well in 2023 to register 14,163 vehicles as compared with 14,668, a decline of just 3.4%.

Iveco’s Tector 170 E medium-duty model fell by 19% in 2023 to 1,684 units (2022: 2,079), yet the model remained the most popular truck in the Argentinian CV truck market.

Improving the eCitaro’s environmental footprint will further contribute to Daimler Buses' environmental and sustainability goals as well as improve its ESG score.

He replaces Rinaldo Facchini, who has been in the role for ten years.

The Chilean bus and coach market segment slipped 1.6% in 2023 by 73 units more than 3,000, down from 3,133 in 2022.

Initially, the self-driving shuttle will transport passengers around the campus, before being incorporated later in the year into the service to and from the NRG station.

It will trial the ‘StreetDeck Electroliner’, a double decker with seating for up to 74 passengers and a range of up to 200 miles.

The intercity buses are currently in use, between Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport and Balıkesir. The Balıkesir municipality ordered multiple variants of the Crossway.

European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) has elected Domenico Nucera (President of Iveco Bus) as Chairman of its bus and coach division for the year 2024.

No financial details have been announced, but in the agreement, BASF will be responsible for the collection, packaging, transportation and entire recycling operation, mechanically processing the batteries into black mass** from which lithium, cobalt and nickel will be extracted and then reused in the manufacturing of new batteries.