Volvo Buses plans to wrap up its operations in Wrocław by the end of the first quarter of 2024, affecting 1,600 jobs.

The proportion of vehicles sold with electric, hydrogen and hybrid drives increased from 41% to over half (55% - 823 versus 669 units with internal combustion engines), marking the first time in the company’s history that buses with alternative drives have outsold conventional ones. 

The vehicles will be powered by BAE Systems’ third generation Series-E full hybrid drivetrain, consisting of a 250kW electric traction motor, a 150kW Euro 6 combustion engine, and a 1kWh ultracapacitor energy storage system.

Stadtwerke Aschaffenberg Verkehrs has acquired 12 buses in total, ten of which are ‘Urbino 12 hydrogen’ models, while the remaining two are ‘Urbino 18 hydrogen’ articulated buses.

The new building covers a surface area of 10,000m2 in the immediate vicinity of the company’s main factory, providing greater storage space for the parts and components Solaris requires to assemble its buses and trolleybuses.

Iriarte replaces Javier Calleja, who has served as CEO since October 2018.

The tender is worth almost EUR60m and will see Solaris delivering 100 12-metre Trollinos at the end of 2024.

Impact will manufacture complete battery systems based on a design specified by pepper motion for its electric buses and trucks.

The company has revealed that it will be expanding its car engine and battery facility at Jawor to accommodate the production of large VAN.EA panel vans, based on a new electric vehicle platform.

35 battery-electric buses - part of a contract worth EUR19m - will be delivered to the city of Riga by the end of 2023.

Two FM Electric trucks will be deployed to handle the internal flow of goods between two Ikea factories located 14 kilometres apart in Zbąszynek and Babimost in western Poland.

The 18-metre articulated bus, with 8 storage tanks holding up to 51.2kg of hydrogen, can travel 350 km carrying up to 138 passengers.