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 the largest model trolleybuses in the world (since 1972 produced over 42,000 trolleybuses)
- Astra Bus (Romania)
- Belkommunmash
- VDL Berkhof
- Bogdan
- Bashkir Trolleybus Plant (BTZ), Ufa
- BredaMenarinibusIT (owned by Finmeccanica)
- CAIO InduscarPT (Brazil)
- DesignLine (New Zealand)
- DINA (Mexico)[2]
- Dongfeng Yangtse
- Electrotrans-Service
- Eletra Industrial Ltda (Brazil)
- ELBO (Greece)
- Foton Motor
- Fiat Group
- Iveco
- Irisbus (with electrical equipment by Škoda Works)
- Iveco
- Hess
- LiAZ
- LuAZ
- LAZ
- Materfer
- Mercedes-Benz
- MAZ
- MTRZ
- New Flyer Industries or Flyer Industries
- Škoda Transportation
- Solaris Bus & Coach (with electrical equipment by Ganz (owned by Škoda) and DP Ostrava)
- SOR LibchavyCS, PL[3] (with electrical equipment by Škoda)
- Sunwin
- TransAlfa
- Trolza, major producer in Russia
- Van Hool
- Volvo
- Youngman
- Yutong
- Zhongtong Bus
- ZIU (Uritsky) – see Trolza
Defunct or no longer making trolleybuses
Preserved vintage trolleybus made by FIAT for the Piraeus-Kastella line in Greece (1939)

ZiU-5 druring the parade of vintage automobiles, Saint Petersburg
- Alfa Romeo, Italy
- AM General, USA
- AnsaldoBreda and predecessors Ansaldo Trasporti and Breda Costruzioni Ferroviarie (but a related company, BredaMenarinibus, is still making trolleybuses), Italy
- Aviant Aircraft Factory, Kiev, Ukraine
- Associated Equipment Company, UK
- Berna, Switzerland
- 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
- 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
- Lancia, Italy
- Leyland Motors, UK
- Mafersa, Brazil
- Marmon-Herrington, USA
- Menarini, Italy – acquired by Breda in 1989, forming BredaMenarinibus
- MASA (Mexicana de Autobuses SA) – now part of Volvo, Mexico
- NAW, Switzerland
- Neoplan, Germany
- Neoplan USA
- Pegaso, Spain
- PTMZ, Russia
- Praga, Czech Republic
- Pullman-Standard, USA
- Richard Garrett & Sons, UK
- Rocar, Romania
- Saurer, Switzerland
- Salvador Caetano, Portugal
- St. Louis Car Company, USA
- Socimi, Italy
- Sunbeam, UK
- Tatra, Czech Republic
- Tushino Mechanical Plant, Russia
- Twin Coach, USA
- Valmet, Finland
- Vétra, France
- Viseon Bus, Germany (formerly Neoplan's trolleybus production)
- Volgograd transport and machinery plant
- Yaroslavl motor plant, Russia
- YuMZ - Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
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