Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MORTH) had issued draft notification amendments to mandate installation of fire detection and alarm systems in all new school and intercity buses throughout the vehicle, which now includes the passenger compartment in addition to the engine compartment.

Mercedes-Benz do Brasil Ltda has launched a new high floor chassis model for the city bus BRT segment, the O500 R Super Padron.

The market for commercial vehicles over 2 tons gvw in East Asia’s seven main markets (excluding China) fell by just 2.6% to 385,943 units in the fourth quarter of 2020 after declining by close to 13% to 396,046 units in the same period of 2019, according to data compiled by www.AsiaMotorBusiness.com from numerous industry sources.

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.

Volvo Buses has introduced a new version of its 9700 double deck coach.

Iveco Bus of Turin, Italy ( a brand of CNH Industrial) has delivered the first of three E-WAY fully electric 9.5m midi-buses via local dealer, Maresca & Fiorentino of Bologna to TPER (Passenger Transport Emilia Romagna).

CaetanoBus has won an order from Wiesbaden, Germany for ten H2.CityGold 12m hydrogen fuel cell buses for delivery in the last quarter of 2021.

Daimler Buses is to supply five Mercedes-Benz eCitaro buses equipped with solid state batteries to public transport provider, Bremer Straßenbahn AG (BSAG) in the city of Bremen.

Sales of buses fell by 91.2% in the first three quarter's period of fiscal year 2020-21 to register just 2,578 units, down from 29,206 units in the first nine months of FY2019-20.

Domestic sales of buses (7.5t gvw and above) contracted by 84.3% in the third quarter of the financial year 2020-21 to register just 1,726 units compared with 11,025 units in Q3 of FY 2019-20!