The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), which serves Africa’s largest city, plans to deploy 12,000 electric buses over the next seven years. The buses will be supplied by Chinese OEM Yutong, and will be assembled locally. Oando Clean Energy Limited (OCEL), a subsidiary of the Nigerian multinational oil company Oando, will provide charging infrastructure…. Read more »
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Chile orders 100 electric buses from China’s Yutong Bus
Yutong Bus will deliver 100 electric buses to Chile, part of the Chilean government’s environmentally-friendly urban development policy, which includes a push to replace all current city buses with new energy vehicles by 2050. The new e- buses will be operated by Buses Vule and STP Santiago to serve Santiago’s public transportation system. The Yutong… Read more »
The week in electric bus news: e-buses motor past inflection point in Europe
Electric city buses have reached critical mass in Europe, Transport and Environment reports. Sixty percent of new EU city buses ordered in 2025 were electric (56% battery-electric and 4% fuel cell). At the current rate of growth in sales, all new city buses are expected to be electric by 2028. A variety of OEMs from… Read more »
Scotland to invest £45 million to support deployment of 334 electric buses
The UK may not yet be in Norway’s EV league, but it is steadily moving to electrify its transport networks. A couple of weeks ago Albion announced plans to fund 484 new electric buses in 10 regions of England. Now the Scots, not to be outdone by their southern neighbors, have confirmed £45 million in… Read more »
Are Chinese electric buses exempt from European EV tariffs?
The EU has joined the US in imposing substantial new tariffs on EVs built in China. In June, the EU announced import tariffs on Chinese EVs ranging from 17.4% to 38.1%. The rationale behind the new tariffs is that the Chinese government has unfairly subsidized its auto industry, enabling Chinese automakers to sell EVs at… Read more »
CATL warrants its new EV battery to last for a million miles or 15 years
More bad news for the ubiquitous anti-EV trolls: the million-mile EV battery is in sight. Chinese battery supplier CATL and bus maker Yutong have partnered to launch an EV battery that’s warranted to last 1.5 million km (932,000 miles) or 15 years. The new battery pack is designed to power commercial EVs such as buses… Read more »
To catch up on electric buses, Europe’s transit firms are working with China
When it comes to the EV race, China hasn’t just lapped the US and Europe—they’re running circles around us. No segment illustrates this embarrassment better than the electric bus market. As Michael Barnard reports in a recent CleanTechnica article, China currently has around 600,000 battery-electric buses operating in its cities. The US (which has 24%… Read more »
Scottish startup offers electric coach service between Edinburgh and Dundee
Travelers have a new option for the 90-minute journey between Edinburgh and Dundee in Scotland. A new service called Ember is operating electric coaches as an alternative to existing diesel-powered bus and rail links between the cities. Founders Keith Bradbury and Pierce Glennie chose the historic port city of Dundee, Scotland’s fourth-largest, because of the… Read more »
Mexico City deploys its first electric bus
The market for electric buses is rapidly expanding far beyond the early-adopter cities of California and Western Europe. Latin America is a new hotspot—e-buses are hitting the streets in Chile and Colombia (Portal Movilidad is a good source for news of the burgeoning southern EV scene). Now ANVES (National Association of Electric and Sustainable Vehicles),… Read more »
IEA case study #2: electric buses in Santiago, Chile
The International Energy Agency’s Global EV Outlook is an annual publication that reports on the current state of electric mobility around the world. This year’s report notes the rapid proliferation of plug-in vehicles—from a mere 17,000 in 2010 to some 7.2 million in 2019. The growth has been concentrated in a few regions—47% of the… Read more »