Busworld Latin America news

The renowned Brazilian bus manufacturer, through Marcopolo Canada Holdings Corp, announced that it will change its stake within the Canadian multinational NFI, after making its first investment through shares acquired in 2013 in the Canadian company...

The CIVA Group, one of the main passenger transport operators in Peru, has added five new Generation 8 Marcopolo Paradiso 1350 highway buses to its fleet. The vehicles, sold through the Mercobus representative, will be used for transport by highway...

Volare, in collaboration with Lume Robotics, has presented the first autonomous microbus in South America. The vehicle, based on the Volare Attack 8 model, has been designed to operate completely autonomously in closed circuits at low speed. The...

Volvo has launched the BZL, an electric city bus model designed specifically for urban applications. The BZL was presented at the Smart City Expo Bogotá and is the first vehicle from a European manufacturer to be available in Colombia, thus marking a...

The Mexican bus market is complex with its own challenges, and at the same time with opportunities in the different niches of passenger transport both for highways and in cities. Marcopolo México with its subsidiary Polomex has been taking different...

Through the strategic union between BYD of China and Castrosua, both the concept and the result of the vehicle have been worked on, they have worked on the design with 3D modeling that has allowed evaluating all the customization options as well as...

Volkswagen Buses has launched its new generation of bus chassis in 2023, in commemoration of its 30th anniversary. The brand has experienced growth in bus sales, especially in the southern cone of South America, and has expanded its product line with...

In the neighboring country of Brazil, a leader in the development of buses by different brands that are very familiar to us today in Colombia, as in many Latin American countries, Busscar Brasil, one of its flagship factories, has just presented what...

The German road passenger transport company Flixbus has been expanding in South America and Asia for 5 years, after investing in new capital in 2019. After settling in and conquering part of the market in Brazil, the company now plans to enter Chile...

Brazilian companies continue to work with a style that is well recognized among them, applying a joint venture (strategic union), now Caio makes the bet, a heavyweight in terms of urban buses in this country, joins efforts with Eletra and WEG to...