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.

Solaris Bus & Coach SA has signed a contract for the supply of electric buses to the Polish Municipal Road and Transport Authority in Radom.

Solaris Bus & Coach claims that by the end of 2018 its electric buses had exceeded 10 million kilometres of in-service operation.