12 Facts About Van Hool

Van Hool NV is a Belgian family-owned coachbuilder and manufacturer of buses, coaches, trolleybuses, and trailers.

Worldwide, Van Hool employs 4,500 people and manufactures more than 1,700 buses and coaches and 5,000 trailers each year.

On February 15,1957, Van Hool signed a commercial agreement with Fiat; Van Hool would incorporate Fiat engines and other mechanical components in its vehicles.

In 1990, Van Hool purchased the coachbuilding business of LAG Manufacturing and continued producing their EOS models for about ten years.

In Europe, Van Hool has a broad range of coaches, though all designs share similar looks and are based on the same platform, the TX.

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Van Hool's response was the development of the A-series transit buses.

In 2001, Van Hool introduced the newA series transit buses, replacing the A series.

At the Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung 2014 in Hanover, Germany, Van Hool presented the new EX series of touring coaches for the European market.

Currently, Van Hool has four separate product lines: the TX series deluxe touring coaches, the CX series touring coaches, the TD925 and TDX double-decker coach, and the A-series transit buses.

In 2018, Van Hool Headquarters announced plans to construct a new manufacturing facility in Morristown, Tennessee designed to produce public transit buses.

In 2015, Van Hool introduced a 35-foot coach to the North American market to compete with the MCI J3500.

Van Hool was building sixteen hydrogen fuel cell buses for the United States as of August 2009.