Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt Ltd in Mumbai last month unveiled no fewer than 12 all-new BS VI-compliant medium and heavy-duty BharatBenz-branded trucks and buses, which have been fully updated inside and out, said the company.

Following a pledge by the UK government to create Britain’s first ‘all-electric bus towns’, automotive engineering, testing and R&D consultancy, Horiba MIRA Ltd, is advising operators to consider converting their existing bus fleets from diesel powered units to electric drive systems as a way to helping the UK to achieve a cleaner public transport network.

Thailand’s state-owned public transport services operator, Transport Co in June held an online bidding process for the supply of 314 buses to strengthen its national and international bus network.

New Flyer Industries Canada ULC announced the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium and Brampton Transit have jointly secured CD11.15m in federal funding from Natural Resources Canada to support the adoption of zero-emission transit buses.

The California Energy Commission has announced qualifying buses passing its Technical Evaluation phase, can now be ordered through the Clean Transportation Programme’s Grant, GFO-18-604.

The City of Liverpool is set to be the first place in the North of England to trial hydrogen fuel cell buses following a successful GBP6.4m bid to the government’s Office for Low Emission Vehicles.

The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal for the implementation of phase II of the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles with a fund allocation of USD1.54bn over the next three years, with effect from April 1, 2019.

Blue Bird Corporation has upgraded the specification of all its school buses equipped with air suspension to include electronic stability control and reversing camera systems as standard equipment.

Funded by the Scottish Government and delivered through a government body called the Energy Saving Trust, the Bus Emissions Abatement Retrofit scheme enables Scottish bus operators to retrofit their existing vehicles with accredited emission control equipment under the Clean Vehicle Retrofit Accreditation Scheme, to reduce harmful emission levels from existing vehicles.

Nigel Base, commercial vehicle manager at the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders announced the European Commission recently has laid out plans to introduce the next phase the VECTO tool from 2022.

The city of São Paulo in December announced it would be re-tendering the largest tender in Latin America for city buses.