PUBLIC transportation company Green SM has entered North America with the official launch of an all-electric taxi service in Los Angeles, California. The move turns the United States into the ninth market for the Vietnamese transport provider. The platform operates entirely on VinFast battery-electric vehicles, putting its operational system directly … [continued]
Bus electrification turns governance choices into long-lived infrastructure choices: routes and operators can change more easily than depots, chargers and grid capacity.
Britain’s bus reforms are usually discussed as a privatization story. Outside London, the 1980s reforms deregulated local bus markets and gave commercial operators far more freedom over routes and timetables. London kept public control of the passenger network while private companies competed to operate specified services. Edinburgh, Dublin and more … [continued]
Glasgow and London both use private bus operators; the important difference is who designs the passenger network they collectively deliver.
Walk around Glasgow as I did this summer and the bus companies are hard to miss. First Glasgow, McGill’s, Stagecoach and other operators have their own brands and vehicles, which can make the city look as though its public transport system has been divided among private companies. Being a bit … [continued]
The EU Passenger Package still falls short of aligning with the EU’s climate targets and is not harmonious enough with the EU’s rail policy agenda. The EU Passenger Package is a big leap forward to passenger rights, and presents vast progress in dragging European rail ticketing out of the stone … [continued]
Across hundreds of procurement records and very different transit markets, battery-electric has become the reference technology for zero-emission bus fleets.
Zero-emission bus procurement has moved beyond the stage where battery-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell buses should be treated as two parallel technologies waiting for the market to decide between them. Transit agencies have now spent years operating both, rebuilding depots, installing charging and refuelling infrastructure, training technicians and discovering which assumptions … [continued]
Electric School Buses Reduce Pollution, Lower Costs, and Improve Student Wellbeing WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, members of the Alliance for Electric School Buses (AESB) applaud Representatives Jahana Hayes (CT-05), Buddy Carter (GA-1), and Greg Landsman (OH-01) for introducing a bipartisan bill in the House of Representatives to reauthorize the Environmental Protection … [continued]
The VinFast EB8 a mid-size city bus which is in use all over Vietnam. (Photo for Cleantechnica by author)
WHEN VinFast brought its electric buses to Busworld Europe 2025, the Vietnamese automaker was making its first major international move in the electric bus market. The company displayed the EB 8 and EB 12 in Brussels in October 2025 as it looked beyond Vietnam for new markets. North America was … [continued]
Norway found a real remote-access risk in a connected Yutong bus, but its older European comparison could not establish that the risk was uniquely Chinese.
When Norwegian transit authority Ruter put a Chinese Yutong electric bus through cybersecurity testing inside an isolated mine, the investigation started with two very different concerns. One was geopolitical: could the bus act as a visual-surveillance platform near sensitive facilities such as Lutvann, home to Norway’s intelligence service? The other … [continued]
Summit serves as an operational audit of EV progress in the Philippines MANILA, Philippines — When the 14th Philippine Electric Vehicle Summit (PEVS) opens its doors this October, the exhibition floor will look, to casual visitors, like a conventional automotive trade fair. Bright spotlights will bounce off polished sheet metal, … [continued]
MANILA, Philippines — On the surface, the transition to electric mobility looks like an intensely domestic fight. Commuters in Metro Manila complain about erratic fuel pump prices, local transport cooperatives struggle to finance modern electric jeepneys, and utility companies work to install charging stations along national expressways. Yet when industry … [continued]
