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.
CAF unit to deliver hybrid buses to Romania s Reghin under 3.6 mln euro deal Solaris Urbino 12
Source: Solaris
BUCHAREST (Romania), December 16 (SeeNews) - Solaris Bus & Coach, a unit of Spain s Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF), said on Wednesday it won a 17.5 million lei ($4.4 million/ 3.6 million euro) tender for a contract to deliver ten hybrid buses to Romanian municipality of Reghin by the end of March 2022.
This will be Solaris first delivery of hybrid buses to Reghin, the company said in a press release.
The ordered Urbino 12 type Solaris buses feature a hybrid propulsion system consisting of a 120 kW traction engine and a 151 kW diesel engine that meets Euro 6 emission standards. The vehicles can carry up to 90 passengers.