Daimler Buses is to supply the Romanian capital of Bucharest with 130 Mercedes-Benz Citaro hybrid buses with deliveries starting in May 2020.

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.

Scania Mexico has supplied 37 gas-powered buses to the Bus Rapid Transit system in Puebla– where they are to supplement the 27 Scania articulated diesel buses, supplied in 2015, operating on the 32km Red Urbana de Transporte Articulado system in the city of Puebla. 

Mellor Coachcraft Ltd, a manufacturer of accessible low floor vehicles, is to launch a new niche product at Busworld Europe 2019 this month, designed specifically for the demand responsive transportation market.

Following its launch at the Global Public Transport Summit in Stockholm (organised by UITP in June this year), the hydrogen-fuelled Solaris Urbino 12 Hydrogen immediately underwent trials by operators in Austria, Italy and Germany.

Scania (Great Britain) Ltd is launching a limited edition of 25 flagship S-series Highline tractor units in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the V8 engine.

A new CO2 monitoring system for inside the bus has been developed by Potenza Technology Ltd. The system has been installed on a new protype all-electric low entry city bus developed as part of CELEB, a consortium of British companies and Agrale Argentina, which is due to go on trial in Q1 2020.

Knorr-Bremse GmbH, global braking systems provider and supplier of other subsystems for rail and commercial vehicles has signed an agreement to sell its Powertech business unit to Munich-based Radial Capital Partners. 

BYD Europe Ltd and Alexander Dennis Ltd jointly announced the companies’ electric vehicle partnership is to upgrade its BYD ADL Enviro200EV with ADL’s new electric bus heating system and optimised vehicle layouts. 

Volkswagen AG and Northvolt AB have created a 50/50 joint venture to build a factory for lithium-ion battery production.

Semcon, a product development company specialising in automotive developments, is partnering with EDRMedeso, which develops engineering design and production simulation tools and software, to collaborate over the development of a digital twin – or virtual copy of any object.

Public transport company, Hamburger Hochbahn AG, plans to commence field-testing Mercedes-Benz eCitaro G articulated buses featuring fuel cell range extenders from 2021.