Buses

Electric school buses are hardly front page news these days, but GreenPower has charged its way onto our radar with the Mega Beast – a purpose-built 40-ft-long young people carrier with a monstrous battery bank.

In order to optimize traffic flow through city streets, municipalities often install car-counting cameras or other sensors at a few set locations. A new study, however, suggests that using existing bus-mounted cameras may be a better way to go.

Fusion Processing has announced that an autonomous public transport project will start on-road testing this week, en route to beginning a new 14-mile pilot service ferrying passengers across a long-span suspension bridge in Scotland later this year.

When Sono Motors introduced a prototype of its Sion solar-electric family car at CES 2021, the company also showed a huge semi-truck solar trailer. Now that idea is taking to the streets, but in the shape of a passenger-carrying trailer bus.

Why bother transferring between a bus and a train, if you could just stay in one vehicle that travels on both roads and tracks? That's the thinking behind a new dual-mode vehicle (DMV), which is slated to begin operations in Japan on December 25.

From world exploration to safer commuting, Torsus has quickly adapted the design of its Praetorian 4x4 bus to the needs of different users. Its latest adaptation is sure to make children grumble: a 4x4 school bus that could eliminate all snow days.

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.

A vehicle built to make school travel greener across the US has gained a little more traction this week, with Daimler’s Thomas Built Buses entering an agreement to provide 50 all-electric Jouley buses for the state of Virginia.

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.​

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.

​The perks of a cup of coffee don’t have to end when the grounds are dumped in the trash. Now a London-based company has partnered with Shell to turn the leftovers from this human go-juice into biofuel to help run the English capital’s expansive bus network.

Toyota has unveiled a concept vehicle to be shown at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show, the Sora fuel cell bus. The bus is aimed for production in 2018, with more than 100 of them to be used in the Tokyo metropolitan area ahead of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.