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17 Feb 2019
THE FIRST BYD ELECTRIC COACH IN FRANCE
For the first time the new BYD 13 metre pure electric coach, which was assembled in the French city of Beauvais, were BYD has a new plant, is on trial in France. Hosted by the Region Hauts-de-France, Transdev and BYD, a special event was held in Beauvais to mark the start of the trial.
16 Feb 2019
ARBOC AWARDED CONTRACT FOR 500 SPIRIT OF EQUESS BUSES
The Florida Department of Transportation (“FDOT”) has granted ARBOC a contract for up to 500 fully-accessible Spirit of Equess low-floor medium-duty buses over a five year period. The contract was procured through and will be delivered by ARBOC’s largest U.S. dealer, Creative Bus Sales, Inc. of Jacksonville, Florida.
15 Feb 2019
UTRECHT ABOUT TO ORDER 55 ELECTRIC BUSES
In the Netherlands the province of Utrecht, in the centre of the country, the provincial government together with operator U-OV, the name transport company Qbuzz is working under, will expand its bus fleet with 70 buses and modernise 55 existing diesel buses. As part of this 55 articulated electric buses will be ordered. Also 15 diesel buses of 15 meter will be purchased.
14 Feb 2019
CHANGES IN BUS MANAGEMENT AT MAN TRUCK & BUS
Since the beginning of this year, Rudi Kuchta (52) has been appointed the Speaker Business Area Bus and Münür Yavuz the Head of Bus Production at MAN Truck & Bus AG. Kuchta takes on this role in addition to his position as Head of Product & Sales Bus. Similarly, Münür Yavuz (53) has also held a new position as Head of Production Bus since the beginning of the year – this in addition to his role as CEO of MAN Türkiye A.Ş.
13 Feb 2019
BELGIUM WINNER DAIMLER BUSTECH CHALLENGE 2019
From 730 participants finally Belgium mechanic Joris Keymeulen was simply the best. The 51 year-old from Belgium took the top step on the podium at the 2019 “BusTech Challenge”. The fifth edition of this competition between the authorised Omniplus Service Points in Europe.