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.

Solaris Bus & Coach SA underlined its major success in alternative fuel segments with displays of its latest Urbino 18 Electric articulated bus, Urbino 12 Hydrogen and 24m bi-articulated Trollino trolleybus.

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 confirmed an order for 90 Urbino 12 electric buses for Berlin operator, BVG.

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

JBM Solaris Electric Vehicles Pvt Ltd, a joint venture between Polish bus maker, Solaris Bus & Coach SA and the Indian firm, JBM Auto Ltd, has announced that it has begun trials of the Ecolife electric bus in New Delhi.

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