Claiming it to be the first application globally, Konvekta AG has revealed that since the start of this year, the first electric articulated bus, equipped with a Konvekta CO2 heat pump thermal management system, has been operated by the public transport company, VAG.

Solaris Bus & Coach SA has received orders for 25 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen-powered buses from the affiliated transport companies of the German  transport association, Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr.

First announcing this development at Busworld 2019 in Brussels last year, Solaris Bus & Coach SA says it is now fitting the Collision Mitigation System intelligent braking support system in the Solaris urban bus range.

The eSConnect is the name of a new monitoring and fleet management system or tool from bus builder, Solaris Bus & Coach SA of Bolechowo, Poland, developed especially for customers buying electric buses from Solaris.

Solaris Bus & Coach is working with Poznań University of Technology, Poznan on developing an advanced system of assistance for drivers of city buses, mostly electric ones.

Solaris Bus & Coach is expanding its range of electric city buses with the launch of a new 15m tri-axle electric bus model – the Urbino 15LE.

Solaris Bus & Coach SA has won a tender to deliver this year three articulated electric buses to Bonn, making it Solaris’s first order from local operator, SWB.

Following its launch at the Global Public Transport Summit in Stockholm (organised by UITP in June this year), the hydrogen-fuelled Solaris Urbino 12 Hydrogen immediately underwent trials by operators in Austria, Italy and Germany.

Solaris Bus & Coach SA is claiming leadership in supplying electric bus contracts in 2019, which it says is largely due to three sizeable orders placed by customers in Berlin, Warsaw and Milan.

Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. is to supply 18 Trollino 10 trolleybuses to the Italian cities of Modena and Parma.

COTRAL, the Rome-based operation in charge of regional transport, has signed another framework contract with Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. for the supply of up to 300 InterUrbino interurban buses.

Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. is to supply Warsaw transport operator, Miejskie Zakłady Autobusowe w Warszawie with 130 electric buses.