BUSMAKERS' NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* Germany - Buses and vans bolster Daimler 2008 profit -paper
Frankfurt,Germany -Reuters -Feb 7, 2009: -- Daimler's buses and vans business generated earnings before interest and tax of about 1.1 billion euros ($1.41 billion) last year, industry publication Automobilwoche reported on Saturday... Without citing sources, it wrote that the two operations likely generated an EBIT margin of 8-9 percent for 2008, making the sale of city buses, coaches and delivery vans clearly more profitable than its passenger car business... Daimler has forecast for its Mercedes-Benz Cars division, which includes its flagship luxury car brand as well as Smart and Maybach, a margin of roughly 5 percent for 2008 on an EBIT of around 2.5 billion euros included lease-related losses...
* USA - San Jose woos electric-bus maker
San Jose,CA,USA -The San jose Mercury News, by Matt Nauman -6 Feb 2009: -- San Jose is talking to a Colorado company about locating its electric-bus factory in Silicon Valley, a city official said Friday... The factory would fit with San Jose's goals of creating green jobs and converting its fleet to nonpolluting vehicles, said John Weis, assistant executive director of the San Jose Redevelopment Agency... On Friday, Proterra showed off a prototype of its electric bus, the aerodynamic EcoRide BE35, outside San Jose City Hall. City officials got a ride in the nearly silent, zero-emissions vehicle... Proterra is taking its approximately $1 million prototype on a 10-city tour of California this month. The company hopes to get orders for production versions of the bus, and then use those orders to get financing for a factory to build them... (Photo: Proterra's EcoRide BE35) Labels: busmakers' news
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