microbus
Americannoun
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microbuses
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On a recent summer day, Leong stepped into a Volkswagen microbus that he had retrofitted with Tesla batteries, a side project that expanded his interests from software to hardware engineering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Olya and her daughter boarded the microbus with six other people, all of whom were immediately charmed by her daughter — for the young girl, this trip started out as an exciting excursion.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
Keogh said the company will begin building the ID.4 electric crossover this year and plans to sell its new ID.Buzz electric microbus in the United States in 2024.
From Reuters ● Mar. 21, 2022
BUZZ, an electric iteration of its iconic hippie-era microbus, on March 9.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2022
You can see it in the ID Buzz, the automaker’s electric microbus that’s meant to harken back to Volkswagen’s glory days of peace signs, bell-bottoms, and flower power.
From The Verge ● Sep. 23, 2020
Fume-free taxis and cars manufactured in China are a common sight in Kathmandu, with traffic officials estimating that up to 60 percent of microbuses entering the city from key routes are now electric.
From Barron's ● May 3, 2026
The white microbuses darting around the roads at all hours are one of the first things you notice when you arrive in Cairo, packed with travellers hopping on and hopping off.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
“The joke is that it left the festival in three times as many VW microbuses as it arrived in,” his grandson, Michael Bronner, said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2022
Authorities said a string of microbuses, trucks and cars were lined up at a checkpoint on a road from southern Egypt into central Cairo waiting for officers to approve their curfew exemptions.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 25, 2020
Cars and trucks sometimes pass us, but no minibuses or microbuses.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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