Solaris Bus & Coach SA, after it announced earlier this year it was to add the 15m Urbino inter-urban and intercity bus version to its full electric portfolio, the company has released more details of the driveline, which will feature for the first time the CeTrax ‘drop-in’ central drive electric axle from ZF Friedrichshafen AG.

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.

Wabco Holdings Inc has opened a new Global Test Centre in Wroclaw, as an extension to the existing Wabco Poland Research and Development Centre, which opened in October 2014.

2019 was a record year for bus and trolleybus builder, Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. with record sales revenues of PLN2.6bn (EUR572m) compared with PLN1.867bn (EUR410m) in 2018 and record unit sales of 1,487 (2018: 1,226).

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.

The Benalu Group at Solutrans 2019 in Lyon held last November announced a group turnover of EUR170m and that it now employs more than 1,000 people in France and Poland.

WABCO Holdings Inc, a global supplier of braking control systems and other advanced technologies that improve the safety, efficiency and connectivity of commercial vehicles, has opened a new Global Test Centre in Wroclaw, Poland.