List of trolleybus manufacturers
Since the invention of the trolleybus, well over 200 different makers of trolleybuses have existed.[1] This is a list of trolleybus manufacturers, both current and former.
Current

Trolleybus garage (depot) in San Francisco, USA, with a range of Muni's trolleybuses dating from 1976 to 2003. On the left is an ETI (Skoda/AAI) 14TrSF trolleybus, which type replaced the non-accessible Flyer trolleybuses in the center. On the right is an articulated New Flyer trolleybus, one of 60 articulated ETBs built by New Flyer for Muni in 1993-94

ZiU-9/682 is the most numerous trolleybus model in the world (over 42,000 trolleybuses were produced since 1972)
- Astra Bus, Romania
- Belkommunmash, Belarus
- Bogdan, Ukraine
- Bozankaya, Turkey
- CAIO InduscarPT, Brazil
- DINA, Mexico[2]
- Dongfeng Yangtse, China
- Ekova Electric, Czech Republic
- Electron Corporation, Ukraine
- Eletra IndustrialPT, Brazil
- Etalon, Ukraine
- Foton Motor, China
- Fiat Group, Italy
- Gillig, United States
- Hess, Switzerland
- Kiepe Electric, Germany – electrical equipment only with Gillig, United States, as subcontractor for bodies and chassis
- MAZ, Belarus
- New Flyer Industries or Flyer Industries, Canada/USA
- PC Transport Systems, Russia
- Pyongyang Trolleybus Works, North Korea
- Škoda Electric, Czech Republic - electrical equipment only with various bus builders as subcontractor for bodies and chassis
- Solaris Bus & Coach (with electrical equipment by Škoda, DP Ostrava, Cegelec, Vossloh-Kiepe and Medcom), Poland
- SOR Libchavy[3] (with electrical equipment by Škoda), Czech Republic
- Sunwin, China
- Trans-Alfa (VMZ), Russia
- Ursus, Poland
- Ufa Tram and Trolleybus Plant (UTTZ), formerly Bashkir Trolleybus Plant (BTZ), Russia
- Van Hool, Belgium
- Youngman, China
- Yutong, China
- Zhongtong Bus, China
Former

Preserved vintage trolleybus made by FIAT for the Piraeus-Kastella line in Greece (1939)

ZiU-5 during the parade of vintage automobiles, Saint Petersburg

Rocar 117E and 217E in Brasov, Romania, 1994. It was one of the most used trolleybus types in Romania in the 1980s until the 2000s
- Alfa Romeo, Italy
- Almatyelectrotrans-Service, formerly Electromash (Kazakhstan)
- Amber, Lithuania[4]
- AM General, USA
- AnsaldoBreda and predecessors Ansaldo Trasporti and Breda Costruzioni Ferroviarie, Italy
- Aviant Aircraft Factory, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Associated Equipment Company, UK
- Berkhof (known as VDL Berkhof in its last years), Netherlands
- Berna, Switzerland
- BredaMenarinibusIT, Italy
- British United Traction, UK
- Brown Boveri & Company (using GM New Look bus body) for Edmonton, Canada
- Busscar, Brazil
- Canadian Car and Foundry, Canada
- Chavdar, Bulgaria
- Crossley Motors, UK
- Daimler Motor Company, UK
- Dennis Specialist Vehicles, UK
- DesignLine, New Zealand
- ELBO, Greece
- Electric Transit, Inc., USA-based joint venture
- Fiat (subsidiary Irisbus is still manufacturing trolleybuses), Italy
- FBW, Switzerland
- Gräf & Stift, Austria
- Guy Motors, UK
- Henschel, Germany
- Hispano-Suiza, Spain
- Ikarus, Hungary
- J.G. Brill, USA
- Jelcz, Poland
- Kawasaki (Japan)
- Lancia, Italy
- Leyland Motors, UK
- LiAZ, Russia
- LuAZ, Ukraine
- LAZ, Ukraine
- MAN, Germany
- Mafersa, Brazil
- Marmon-Herrington, USA
- Materfer, Argentina
- Menarini, Italy – acquired by Breda in 1989, forming BredaMenarinibus
- Mercedes-Benz, Germany
- MASA (Mexicana de Autobuses SA) – now part of Volvo, Mexico
- Moscow Trolleybus Plant (MTRZ), Russia
- NAW, Switzerland
- Neoplan, Germany
- Neoplan USA
- Pegaso, Spain
- PTMZ, Russia
- Praga, Czech Republic
- Pullman-Standard, USA
- Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, UK
- Richard Garrett & Sons, UK
- Rocar, Romania
- Saurer, Switzerland
- Salvador Caetano, Portugal
- St. Louis Car Company, USA
- Scania AB, Sweden
- Socimi, Italy
- Sunbeam, UK
- Tatra, Czech Republic
- Trolza (previously ZiU), Russia
- Tushino Mechanical Plant, Russia
- Twin Coach, USA
- Valmet, Finland
- Vétra, France
- Viseon Bus, Germany (formerly Neoplan's trolleybus production)
- Volgograd transport and machinery plant, Russia
- Volvo Buses, Sweden
- Yaroslavl motor plant, Russia
- YuMZ - Dnipro, Ukraine
References
- Murray, Alan (2000). World Trolleybus Encyclopaedia. Yateley, Hampshire, UK: Trolleybooks. pp. 94–125. ISBN 0-904235-18-1.
- Trolleybus Magazine No. 311 (September–October 2013), p. 134.
- Trolleybus Magazine No. 281 (September–October 2008), p. 109.
- "Vilnius public transport innovates". www.baltictimes.com. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
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