The Irizar e mobility plant in Aduna, a division of Spain’s Ormaizetagi-based Irizar Group, has delivered two 10.8m Irizar ie bus electric buses to the Portuguese city of Bragança making them the first Irizar ie bus models to enter Portugal and the seventh European country to be included in Irizar's electric bus network.

The Irizar ieTruck, developed by Irizar Group's eMobility division in conjunction with Municipal Services giant, FCC Medio Ambiente Company, won the Innovative Idea category at the 2019 Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona last month.

Scania Buses & Coaches is introducing a longer version of its Irizar i6S coach for the 2020 season, which is available to order now.

Hispacold since April this year has, for the first time been delivering it's electrical air conditioning unit with reversible heat pump to Alexander Dennis Ltd for fitment in its BYD E400 EVfull electric double decker bus.

Door specialist, Masats SA, used Busworld last month to provide customers with a private presentation of a completely new design of door system for electric coaches called Swyncro; an acronym for swinging and synchronised.

Long-established Spanish coachbuilder, Ayats, revealed its latest double deck coach at Busworld called Horizon InterCity.

Open Tour Paris, an RATP Group subsidiary that provides hop-on hop-off sightseeing buses in Paris, has entered the field of NGVs with six open top UNVI double deck buses.

Indcar has seen a strong growth in sales for its minibus and midi-bus products during 2019 – largely from the urban bus segment.

Temperature control systems supplier, Hispacold, used Busworld Europe to launch a new heating ventilation and air conditioning system called Breeze for both electrically powered and conventionally fuelled public transportation vehicles (city buses, intercity buses and coaches); and for all climatic and environmental zones.

Following more than 26 years dedicated service to Irizar and the last 10 years in charge as the Group’s chief executive officer, José Manuel Orcasitas has retired.

Iveco SpA, part of CNH Industrial NV, in conjunction with project partners, Amazon, Microsoft and Shell launched the new S-Way driver-centric heavy-duty truck at a presentation in Madrid last month.

The first Static Recharge Station by Alstom for buses is being installed in Malaga for operation with two electric buses, one from Alstom Aptis, and the other from Linkker Oy.