Sadly, the doors are closing for the final time at the depot of Reynolds Coaches. With the company logo emblazoned across the building and the petrol pumps outside, it is a well-known site in Caister-on-Sea, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Earlier this year, its owner, Charles Reynolds, announced he had taken the heart-breaking decision to close […]
Pelican Bus & Coach has announced the addition of an electric coach to join the Yutong range offered in the UK. The model, provisionally called the TCe12, will be available in the second quarter of 2019. The same vehicle is already in service in Paris where Flixbus and Keolis have operated over 50 of them […]
Spanish coachbuilders, INDCAR, has signed an agreement with EVM as it seeks to build on its presence in Ireland. The joint venture will work under the name of INDCAR Ireland. The new partnership is part of the minibus bodybuilder company growth strategy into the European market. The decision is seen as a great opportunity to expand […]
Work on the vehicle is being carried out at ADL’s site in Guildford and the bus is expected to be ready for use by the end of this year. Without revealing the additional cost of each driverless bus, the partners collectively are investing a significant six figure sum in this proof of concept project. Once […]
Bus Euro Test 2018 The only one of the three candidates not currently offered in the UK, the Heuliez GX337 Linium Elec is manufactured at Rorthais in France by Heuliez Bus… a wholly owned subsidiary of CNH Holdings which is also the parent of Iveco Bus, though the two concerns trade entirely separately within France, […]
Bus Euro Test 2018 Irizar’s decision to embrace eMobility and enter the city bus market has been a wholehearted one, and a new company was formed in 2016 to foster its ambitions. It has invested heavily to produce the range it now offers, with electric options at 10.8m, 12.0m, 18m and 18.73m. Top of the […]
Bus Euro Test 2018 Although an example has been unveiled and commercial production will begin next year, for a manufacturer with such long experience of alternative propulsion systems Mercedes-Benz has been surprisingly slow to embrace full electric technology in commercial bus offerings. With no production electric to offer, Daimler chose to send the latest version […]
With a field of four vehicles eventually reduced to three with the withdrawal of MAN’s Lions City at short notice, this year’s Bus Euro Test offered a mixed bag; two of the buses were electrics and one a diesel with light hybridisation. Maybe it’s a sign of the times that there were no diesels, but […]