Iveco Bus, the urban, intercity and tourist bus division of Iveco Group, has received three new contracts for electric mobility solutions in France. It is the latest set of contracts received by the division focused on electrified commercial vehicles, with 31 hydrogen fuel cells buses and 20 battery electric buses having been ordered since early September.
One of the contracts is with Cannes Lérins Urban Community, who ordered twelve GX 337 H2 LINIUM BRT hydrogen fuel cell buses. Iveco expects to deliver these buses to the community in the second half of 2025, complementing the thirty-five Iveco Bus GX ELEC battery electric buses already operating there. Lorient Agglomération, a local government office in the town of Lorient, has ordered nineteen GX 337 H2 LINIUM hydrogen buses, five of which it aims to begin service in the second half of 2025.
The third contract is with Grand Reims Mobilités, who operates a transport network across the Greater Reims area. It selected Iveco Bus to deliver twenty GX 437 ELEC LINIUM BRT battery electric buses (with an option to deliver an additional nine in the future) and will begin operating them on the streets of Reims in autumn 2025.
The hydrogen fuel cell bus chosen by Cannes and Lorient represents a key outcome of the partnership between the Iveco Group and Hyundai Motor Company that started in 2022. It is equipped with an advanced fuel cell system developed by HTWO, the hydrogen business arm of Hyundai Motor Group, and a battery pack by FPT Industrial, an Iveco Group brand developing low-environmental impact powertrains.
The battery electric bus intended for Reims is, itself, part of a pre-existing range of buses that have similarly been select by more than 100 customers in Europe, with these customers together ordering more than 3000 units.
