London, Munich, Poland, Santa Monica, AA Trust

BYD and ADL are on a roll in London where they have just written their third electric bus order since June. Operator Metroline expects 23 single deckers to electrify the entire Route 46 by summer 2018. Only GoAhead and RATP Dev made their calls for the delivery of a total of 66 electric buses before. Still, it was Metroline that has been operating the world’s first electric double deckers since 2015, when BYD shipped five pilot models from China to the British capital as proof of concept.
byd.com

Munich wants more e-buses even before the arrival of two electric buses from Ebusco next month. They had been ordered back in 2015 and this time, Stadtwerke München have prepared their next tender already. Wanted are two 18m bendy buses, again all electric, and ideally fit for service before the end of 2018. They could then join other single electric buses Munich’s transport provider MVG plans to buy next year. Its strategy is to go a 100% electric bit by bit and so MVG has become part of the e-bus buying group which Berlin’s BVG and Hamburg Hochbahn initiated.
swm.de (in German)

Inside Poland: Warsaw joins the club of cities that order electric buses repeatedly and this time, Poland’s capital selected local supplier Solaris to deliver ten Urbino by Q1 2018. The acquisition follows the earlier introduction of six hybrid and two electric buses, but Warsaw wants to put 800 new buses into operation by 2027 and the majority of them to be low and zero-emission, i.e. hybrid, CNG and electric.
eurotransportmagazine.com

Today may see Santa Monica City Council approve 29 EV charging stations across the city. ChargePoint wants the City to buy and install 55 new ports at a cost of 229,077 dollars, plus 13,075 dollars a year for four years and has won over officials with experience rather than pricing.
surfsantamonica.com

Free EV training: The AA Trust has launched Drive Electric, an EV training course free of charge. It follows an AA survey of 16,239 drivers which found that 32% of respondents were interested in a free one-hour driving lesson in an electric car in their local area.
fleetnews.co.uk