Australasian Bus & Coach

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Australasian Bus & Coach

One step forward, two steps back • A new economic and military alliance that could change the global balance of power? And we could be in it? Hmm…¯ Sounds like fun. Maybe.

GREYHOUND RESOURCES SOLD TO SKYBUS-KINETIC

NZD$50 MILLION ‘DECARBONISATION’ AID FOR PUBLIC BUS FLEET

CUSTOM-DENNING ELEMENT E-BUS NOW ADR APPROVED

BUS OPERATOR ATTAINS KEY CUSTOMER SERVICE STANDARD

‘NEXT-GEN’ ZF ECOLIFE BUS TRANSMISSION DUE SOON

CLARKS LOGAN CITY LAUNCHES RECONCILIATION ACTION PLAN

VOLGREN ANNOUNCES NEW HEAD OF ENGINEERING

BCSA HANDS OVER BLKBONLUCK BUS REINS

THE WOT!?!

An Extraordinary Life • Bus industry icon Michael Apps sadly passed away on 26 December, 2020.

ADELAIDE O-BAHN HYBRID BUS SERVICE STARTS • South Australian bus operator Torrens Transit, which Transit Systems owns, has started to run one of its two new Scania hybrid buses on the Adelaide O-Bahn system.

BUSWORLD EUROPE, 2021 DATES SET: 9-14 OCT • A growing tally of 303 exhibitors and 75 per cent exhibition space has thus far been allocated for the forthcoming Busworld Europe 2021 event, to be held in Brussels, Belgium in October.

MARCOPOLO LAUNCHES NEW AUDACE 1050 COACH IN AUSTRALIA • Volgren parent company Marcopolo has launched a new Audace coach series for the Australian bus market – the Audace 1050 – aimed at the school, charter and long-distance coach sector, the company announced recently.

ZF DRIVES ELECTRIC INNOVATION • ZF and the word ‘technology’ have been intrinsically linked for decades because, from the very beginning, that is what ZF has done – develop, manufacture and deliver innovative technology to the world’s automotive manufacturers.

JUST AROUND THE CORNER • A stream of announcements about the new products that will be on display at this year’s highly anticipated Brisbane Truck Show will be coming soon, so stay tuned.

FALLING INTO LINE • On course to be the second largest e-bus operator in NSW, Interline’s initial 10-vehicle fleet in 2021 kicked off with its first BCI Citirider E delivered for south-west Sydney, recently. Owner Joe Oliveri took some time out for ABC magazine to talk all things electric bus and where the industry should go from here – and why.

INTERLINE’S FLEET

SLEEP MAKER • Each year in Australia, fluctuating fortunes have meant multiple thousands of people unfortunately are forced to sleep on the streets unsheltered every night, let alone have some place safe to stay for longer. If indeed ‘charity begins at home’, what if that home is actually a bus – a ‘sleepbus’, to be precise?

SLEEPBUS.ORG MANTRA

BUS ORIGINS

STYLE MEETS SAFETY • It’s what you can’t see that’s exciting in the new Rosa.

Specs

Deliveries off to a solid start in 2021 • Early bus-deliveries numbers starting to rise to resemble pre-Covid times, exclusive ABC data reveals.