Solaris Bus in Polish second-life battery consortium
A consortium comprising Solaris Bus & Coach, Impact Clean Power Technology S.A. and TAURON Polska Energia will implement a project titled “Second Life ESS” with the aim to create a prototype system to store electric energy based on retired electric bus batteries. The project is being co-financed by the National Center for Research and Development (NCBiR) in Poland.
Solaris launched its first electric bus back in 2011. Since then, the manufacturer has sold more than 1,000 e-buses to several dozen towns and cities across 18 countries. The first of the vehicles delivered then have now covered over half a million kilometers each. This means that in some of them it will be necessary to replace their battery packs.