The Van Hool A308 is a midibus in the A3 family of city buses built by the Belgian manufacturer Van Hool, a full low-floor vehicle with its engine mounted at the side. In the maker's naming code the letter A stands for autobus, meaning a transit bus. It was also offered as a diesel-electric hybrid, and in April 2009 Van Hool showed a hybrid midibus alongside a standard bus and an articulated bus at the UITP congress in Vienna, with the Flemish operator De Lijn the first to put those hybrids into service. An electric version, the A308E, followed, and Van Hool went bankrupt in April 2024.
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is a Belgian coachbuilder and manufacturer of buses, coaches, trolleybuses, and trailers.
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is a Belgian coachbuilder and manufacturer of buses, coaches, trolleybuses, and trailers.
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A308 midibus, full low floor, with side-mounted engine. Also available as diesel-electric hybrid.
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is a Belgian coachbuilder and manufacturer of buses, coaches, trolleybuses, and trailers.
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proposes three types of diesel-electric hybrid buses: a midibus, a standard bus and an articulated bus.
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