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One out of three buses sold by Solaris in 2018 were alternative drive vehicles. Solaris, according to the figures released by the company, placed second in the chart of electric buses’ top seller in Europe for the year 2018. And 2019 will be the year of the Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen and Troll...

The Polish city of Włocławek commissioned to Solaris Bus & Coach the first electric buses for the city. Solaris won the tender for the supply of 3 Urbino 12 Electric and four charging stations. The contract is to be performed by the end of this year. The order is worth nearly PLN 8.5 million (al...

Electromobility is step by step becoming Solaris‘ core business, but gas is also a source of satisfaction for the Polish manufacturer. At the beginning of the year, the company delivered the first pre-series Solaris Urbino 18 CNG to RATP. The framework agreement includes the delivery of up to ...

Since 3 September the Solaris Urbino 12 electric has been the object of test runs in the Estonian city of Tartu, the second-biggest city of the country. The tests of the vehicle will last for a whole year. It is the first project taking that long and concerning electromobility in Estonia, a country ...

Solaris Bus & Coach is officially CAF’S property. The Spanish based company acquires 100% of the shares of Solaris Bus & Coach, that will be included to the Group CAF. This transaction, quoting a press release by both Solaris and CAF, will ensure the leadership of the CAF Group and Sol...

Solaris Bus & Coach realized the world’s first mobile blood donation centre in an electric bus, the Solaris Urbino 8.9 LE electric. It is the first of two vehicles of this type commissioned by the Regional Blood Donation Centre (RCKiK) in Katowice. On the day of its première the vehicle won an a...

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Public transport authorities and operators all over the world are moving towards a growing deployment of full electric buses. Providing vehicles and full service, charging infrastructures, smart city services: these are the pillars of Enel X offers in the field of e-buses, as the utility company has...

The Yutong Xiaoyu 2.0 has been awarded the design prize 2021 Red Dot Award. Developed by the Chinese group – the largest bus builder in the world for production volumes -, the 5.5-meter shuttle bus stands out for being the world’s first autonomous bus recognized by world-class industrial desig...

Siemens ELFA drivetrains have already left 2 billion kilometers on five continents behind. The modular electric drivetrain and software solution for hybrid, battery, and fuel cell buses and trucks has resulted as an hallmark for the Siemens business unit Commercial Vehicles (CV). How the ELFA techno...

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Electric bus. Their name is Solaris Urbino 12 Electric, they wear a nice white and purple “dress” and they are the first units of battery electric bus ever delivered to Romania. Up to now there are 11 of them on the road of Cluj-Napoca, but the order could be extended to 41 in three year...

Battery electric is the next step, but afterwards it’ll come the time of fuel cell. Solaris Bus & Coach will unveil in 2019 the Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen, a new generation vehicle deriving power from a hydrogen fuel cell. Fuel cell buses and future scenarios The fact that fuel cell will s...

Solaris, the electric bus is heated with Lpg. It’s one of the recent achievements of Solaris Bus & Coach Research and Development Department, which currently employs nearly 150 engineers. One of the areas that Solaris engineers have recently worked on were air conditioning and heating as w...

It has been the first tender aiming to the electrification of Bvg fleet in Berlin, starting with 30 electric buses 12 meters long. The transport operator is now checking the offers, and preparing a new tender for articulated buses, electric as well, that allegedly will be released shortly. Bvg and t...