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There are several good reasons why fleets should invest in a tyre changer, insourcing this process. Firstly, with a tyre changer in the own workshop, downtime and waiting times are eliminated. There is no time wasted driving to the workshop to have tyres changed. With the current shortage of (foreign) labour, workshops now have limited capacity and tyres may not ge...

SuperNice Express (SuperNice), a brand under the Unimax Group received the first industry-leading Scania coaches with Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) in Malaysia. Roy Chew, Unimax Group Chairman received the keys to two units of Scania K360IB4x2 coaches with ADAS from Heba El Tarifi, Managing Director, Scania Southeast Asia. An MoU signing ceremony was als...

Busworld Southeast Asia was staged in the Indonesian capital from October 5th to the 7th, 2022. First held in 2019, this leading industry event was officially opened by Dr. Hendro Sugiatno, Director of Land Transportation, with the Republic of Indonesia Ministry of Transport. The gala opening event, featuring a colourful cultural performance by a local dance troupe...

MAN Truck & Bus has presented its new all-electric chassis for the world market to the public: The Lion's Chassis E was on show live for the first time at the Australasia Bus & Coach Expo trade fair in Sydney, Australia - and delighted operators, entrepreneurs and experts. At the beginning of October, MAN Truck & Bus celebrated a world premiere: the new Lio...

The 5th edition of the European Zero Emission Bus (ZEB) Conference will be organised concurrently with the 26th Busworld Europe edition from 9th to 12th October 2023 in Brussels, Belgium. ERM Group company, Element Energy, organiser of this conference, is partnering with Busworld Foundation. Together they aim to create the best edition of the European ZEB conferenc...

With an eye on an innovative future, the 2022 edition of the Singapore International Transport Congress and Exhibition (SITCE) will discuss the latest developments transforming urban mobility. Held in a city where innovation shines through, the world of public transport will see what the next steps are for transforming the way we move around our cities. Under the...

Scania Singapore announced that it has commenced sales for its battery electric trucks from 6 April 2022. It also announced the signing of a sales agreement today with its first customer, ALBA W&H Smart City, for 15 battery electric trucks, the first European-branded battery electric trucks in Singapore. The L230B6X2*4NB trucks will be delivered in two batches...

Scania Top Teams, five out of our twelve branches in Malaysia made it to the National Final today. These Scania technicians are dedicated specialists who contribute to Scania’s premium brand image and well trusted and respected name in the heavy-duty commercial transportation industry. The winning team, B100 from Scania Malaysia Ipoh workshop will be flown off to Thailand to join their colleagu...

The idea was simple: we wanted to experience bus travel in Malaysia to visit a few places that we hadn’t seen for<a while. When we floated the idea to Super Nice, which is headquartered in Prai, with an affiliated companyin Singapore, this took on a slightly different twist. Super Nice also offers chartered buses, complete withdrivers, for groups to plan their o...

The Innovation Challenge will make its Euro Bus Expo debut at the NEC Birmingham on 1-3 November. Bringing together the most notable product and service developments from across the industry, it gives visitors the opportunity to quickly and easily discover what’s new and next in a sector rife with innovation.The next wave of ideasThe Challenge will highlight the mo...

Today’s operations require vehicles to offer as much uptime as possible. On one hand, the biggest enemy of any bus operator is an unplanned breakdown, requiring the vehicle to be pulled in for repairs. Not only does this affect the bottom line, but also the reputation of the company as passenger may suffer delays and could be inconvenienced. Planned maintenance on ...

For around 48 months, MAN Truck & Bus worked with 14 partners from the automotive and supplier industries, software development, and science to develop and test automated driving functions for the safe, efficient, and comfortable urban traffic of the future as part of the @CITY ("Automated Cars and Intelligent Traffic in the City") initiative. MAN focused on pu...

Scania’s Ecolution is aligned with their ambition to be the most sustainable provider of transport solutions. As the term suggests, these solutions go beyond the production and delivery of a sophisticated vehicle. The augmented product offering is comprised of the hardware and increasingly the software around it.To recap, Ecolution is Scania’s way of addressing iss...

The ‘new normal’ turned out to be a very successful new start for exhibitions in general and Busworld Turkey specifically. In comparison to the previous edition in March 2020, right before the pandemic hit the fan, the 2022 show was both bigger in size as well as in exhibitor and visitor numbers. Also from a visual perspective the show performed outstandingly, bein...

Scania baru-baru ini menyerahkan dua unit koc Scania K360IB4x2, setiap satu kepada Asrama Semai Bakti Kuala  Lumpur, Lembaga Kemajuan Tanah Persekutuan (FELDA) dan Maktab Rendah Sains MARA, Trolak, Perak. Siti Zaroha Nasharuddin, Pengarah Pentadbiran, FELDA, menerima kedua-dua unit daripada Mohammad Farid, Eksekutif Jualan Kanan, Scania Malaysia di Asrama FELDA Sem...

Volvo Buses was proud to host the “Insights into Electric Buses” conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on May 24th, 2022. Graced by the Ministry of Transport and The Swedish Embassy, the ambition of the conference was to grow awareness, share knowledge and drive insights into successful electric bus adaptation and eventually contribute to building a sustainable electr...

The annual International Association of Public Transport (UITP) Awards showcase the most ambitious and innovative public transport projects of the last two years in cities and regions across the globe. The 2021 awards ceremony took place in Dubai on 6 February.“We are delighted to see our electromobility delivery in Gothenburg win this important award,” says Ulf Ma...

Since 1977, Volvo's Borås factory has manufactured bus chassis for the global markets now reaching the milestone of 200 000 units produced. The chassis number 200 000 was their latest Volvo BZL Electric, a coincidence, but of high probability since the brand has been ramping up the production of this particular after the recent launch.Even though number 200 000 was...

The launch of Volvo’s latest offer has certainly answered a number of questions regarding the direction and state of electromobility. However, there are also some new questions that arise and in this exclusive interview Asian Buses gets to the bottom of things.Immediately after the global launch of the BZL, we spoke to Dan Pettersson, Head of Internatio...