Press Releases

First Bus will operate the Glasgow Airport Express for five more years

• The first of Somerset’s new electric buses are now in service
• £14.7m project with First Bus in Somerset and Somerset Council
• By the summer all 25 electric buses will be in service

• The new fleet forms part of a £12.7million investment into Aberdeen, with 24 new electric buses and 12 repower buses
• The investment cements First Bus’s commitment to sustainability with a goal to achieve a fully zero-emission fleet by 2035

• £70 million investment in additional 160 zero-emission buses 

• Partnered with West of England Mayoral Combined Authority to secure an additional £20million of            Government co-funding  

• The new zero-emission fleet will run through air quality hot spots in Bristol, as well as operating in Bath. 

• Half of the First Bus West of England fleet will be zero-emission vehicles. 

• Life-size character surprises children at York primary school
• Children’s storybook published by First Bus in North and West Yorkshire
• Tinyfoot and Evie’s Adventure to Tiny Street features Evie the electric bus and her friend Tinyfoot.
• Tale to help schools and parents teach youngsters about carbon footprint and greener choices
• All funds raised to support Macmillan

• Life-size character surprises children at Leeds primary school
• Children’s storybook published by First Bus in North and West Yorkshire
• Tinyfoot and Evie’s Adventure to Tiny Street features Evie the electric bus and her friend Tinyfoot.
• Tale to help schools and parents teach youngsters about carbon footprint and greener choices
• All funds raised to support Macmillan

• First Bus' Roundtree Way in Sprowston has ben independently verified as a net zero-emission bus depot
• The depot has been the home of 70 new state of the art electric buses since April 2024

• First Bus Leicester announce bus depot as one of three Net-Zero emission depots in the UK
• Official launch of the depot electrification took place in March 2023 with investment by First Bus and co-funding from Department for Transport secured by Leicester City Council
• Leicester was one of the first fully electrified depots outside of London

• Emissions reduced by 90% compared to activities in 2020
• Official launch of £23m depot electrification with investment by First Bus and co-funding from Department for Transport Zebra scheme secured by City of York Council
• Depot one of the first outside London to be fully electric
• Total fleet saving around 5,000 tonnes of CO2e a year