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Arriva has placed an order for as many as 157 new electric buses from VDL Bus & Coach. These buses are destined for the new West Brabant concession, which will enter into operation on 6 July 2025.

Hermes presented its brand new generation of Citea buses to the public on Monday, 27 May 2024. With the deployment of the first 32 of a total of 64 new generation Citeas from VDL Bus & Coach, Hermes i...

VDL Bus Roeselare, the new Flemish production facility of VDL Bus & Coach, was officially opened today, Wednesday 10 April. In addition to the 27,000m2 production facility, this also launches the work...

In a test entitled 'the MaxiMile Challenge', VDL Bus & Coach's new generation Citea achieved a stunning result. The objective of the challenge is to provide evidence of the promises made with the new ...

KVG Kieler Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH and VDL Bus & Coach have reached an agreement for yet another order of 50 new generation Citeas with an option for 10 additional units. The vehicles, based entirely...

VDL Bus & Coach will be present at Busworld 2023, Europe's largest bus & coach trade fair, which takes place every other year. This year, Busworld will be held in Brussels from 7 to 12 October. With t...

On 5 June 2023 the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) and VDL Bus & Coach signed a Memorandum of Understanding during the UITP Global Public Transport Summit held in Barcelona, Spain. The agreement w...

VDL Bus & Coach recently completed Europe's first large-scale battery refurbishment project. 43 buses operated by Hermes, part of Transdev Netherlands, which went into service at the end of 2016, were...

EBS will launch the newly formed Zaanstreek-Waterland concession in December 2023 with as many as 193 new-generation VDL Citeas. The vehicles, based entirely on an electric powertrain, will be deliver...

VDL Bus & Coach's management team has been reinforced by Richard van den Dungen (50), who assumed the role of Commercial Director on 1 December 2022. Van den Dungen succeeds Marcel Jacobs in the posit...

Nordic region’s largest public transport operator Nobina will be the first in Sweden to put the new generation VDL Citea into operation. The electric buses, which are a Class 2 design and developed fr...

In the North Brabant East concession, Arriva is expanding its fleet with 64 new electric buses from VDL Bus & Coach. Arriva is thus responding to the target set by the province of North Brabant of emi...

Intensively used batteries, taken from VDL Bus & Coach electric buses, get a second life in ‘project Anubis’. This initiative of energy company RWE and VDL Bus & Coach revolves around the sustainable ...

In the first half of 2022, a total of 1,767 electric buses were registered in Europe. VDL Bus & Coach is the European market leader with 242 registered electric buses. This is according to figures fro...

Berlin will be the setting for the official presentation of the new generation VDL Citea. This world premiere will take place during the international exhibition InnoTrans, from 20 to 23 September in ...