Bus

With the pandemic sidelining its sister tourism business, Mybushotel turns to selling school bus campers. The "B-Hotel" conversions are roomier than camper vans, more mobile than chalets, and filled with features like rooftop decks and smart TVs.

All Nippon Airways is collaborating with SB Drive, Advanced Smart Mobility and BYD to test an autonomous electric bus at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Japan. The trial starts today and will run until the end of the month.

With an eye on clearer skies, the Chilean government has now opened what is billed as the first electric bus corridor in Latin America, which will now serve as one of the main routes in the city of Santiago's transport network.

The Praetorian Overlander promises to be a stylish off-grid shelter capable of bursting through rivers and grinding over sliding mountains of toothy rock to reach whatever never-before-typed set of coordinates you're heading for.

Benedetto Bufalino is an artist who turns vehicles into art installations. His latest project transformed an old junkyard bus into a swimming pool.

​Back in 2015, EasyMile launched the EZ10 self-driving people mover, putting the shuttle to work in a Californian business park and a park in Singapore. Now the company has announced an updated version, which focuses on passenger safety and comfort.​

Back in 2016, Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD rolled out a 10.2 meter-long electric double-decker bus in London. Now transit companies have got a new emissions-free people carrier to help ease inner city air pollution and traffic congestion thanks to Hyundai Motor.​

Singapore is intent on positioning itself at the vanguard of self-driving technologies. Now it is looking to ramp things up even further, rolling what it claims to be the world’s first full size, autonomous electric bus onto a university campus in partnership with Volvo.

Even when plugged into a music player or playing games on a smartphone, long bus journeys can be tedious. If you ride a FlixBus on select Las Vegas routes, you could find yourself being offered a VR headset, to transport you to other worlds while the driver takes you where you need to go.

We looked at the cars of SEMA last week, and this week we dive into the trucks, utility vehicles and vans. The group includes the usual mile-high trucks and gaudy Wranglers but also some new twists, like Iceland-ready adventure vans, UTV/pickup truck half-and-halfs, and super-sized military jeeps.

Japanese retail company Muji has joined forces with Sensible 4, a Finnish autonomous vehicle maker, to create Gacha, a stylish new autonomous shuttle bus designed to handle a wide variety of different environmental conditions.

Buses are a humble part of the urban backdrop you barely notice unless you're chasing one. No longer. Torsus is destroying that mold with a bus that's anything but humble. The all-new Praetorian 4x4 is a rugged off-road utility vehicle ... with a few dozen more seats.