Battery storage specialist, Zenobe Energy, has partnered with McGill’s to help it bring electric bus services to Glasgow, Renfrewshire and Dundee. The partnership will see three depots being electrified, with capacity for further expansion, going live in 2021, helping to facilitate the launch of 68 electric buses. The partnership follows McGill’s recent £32.5 million electric […]
A new date for the South East Bus Festival has been announced. The event will now take place on Sunday 10 October, hosted at Kent Showground, near Maidstone. The event was cancelled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic and the original April date for this year’s edition of the show was postponed in February. […]
Innovation & Technology in Transport – ITT Hub – has landed Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) as an exhibitor, together with automotive giant Ford. ITT Hub is now set to be the first, if not the only, only bus and coach show in 2021 when it launches on 30 June – 1 July at the Farnborough […]
CPT has appointed Phil Smith as its new Coaching Manager. Taking up his post on 10 May Phil will be responsible for providing CPT coach members with operational support and engaging with a range of stakeholders such as key local authorities, TfL and our coach tourism partners. Phil will also be responsible for CPT’s Coach […]
Specialist bus and coach insurance broker, McCarron Coates, has been shortlisted for two awards in the prestigious National Insurance Awards. The team, led by directors Ian McCarron and Paul Coates, are finalists for Commercial Lines Broker of the Year and Commercial Lines Specialist Broker of the Year. The two award nominations have been achieved on […]
Go-Ahead-owned Excelsior Coaches has taken on drivers of the now defunct Sea View Coaches (Poole) Ltd. The Bournemouth-based company will also be honouring Sea View Coaches bookings. Poole-based Sea View Coaches went into administration last year at the start of the pandemic. At the time, 17 drivers lost their jobs. “Sea View Coaches was an […]
First launched in 2017, BUS2BUS is Germany’s only major bus and coach industry event, staged biennially by Messe Berlin and bdo e.V., the country’s trade association for bus and coach operators. Pandemic driven, 2021’s event has been rescheduled for April 2022 but a special virtual edition took place on 15 April, attracting over 900 participants […]
First Aberdeen‘s hydrogen-powered double-deckers from Wrightbus have completed 100,000 miles of operation. The hydrogen buses are predominantly operating on the Service 19 route in Aberdeen. To support the fleet’s deployment, Wrightbus installed a support team of hydrogen specialists on the ground in Aberdeen as well as an escalation team and a technical back-up team on […]