BUSWORLD EUROPE 2021 DATES SET: 9 – 14 OCTOBER By: Fabian Cotter, Photography by: courtesy Busworld
Date: 29.01.2021
A GROWING TALLY of 303 exhibitors and 75 per cent exhibition space has thus far been allocated for the forthcoming Busworld Europe 2021 event, to be held in Brussels, Belgium, organisers have confirmed.
Many premières and top-of-the-bill buses, coaches and minibuses will be on display, as always, says Busworld, meaning, “…visitors will still be able to satisfy their bus needs.”
Despite two notable omissions – Daimler Buses and Volvo Buses – Busworld Europe will take place in Brussels Expo 9 - 14 October.
The Busworld team says its normal preparations are going full speed ahead and media campaigns are being booked and will start in April. The Busworld Awards organisation had its first meeting and will send the invitation to all bus manufacturers and also the sales department is adding new exhibitors every day, it confirms.
Arriva Netherlands acquires 10 Solaris hydrogen buses
Solaris Bus & Coach and Dutch carrier Arriva Netherlands have signed an agreement for the delivery of 10 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses. The 12-meter hydrogen buses will be delivered to the province of Gelderland in the course of this year. Arriva will start driving them in December 2021 in the Achterhoek region and the cities Zutphen and Apeldoorn.
Gelderland is the largest province in the Netherlands, located in the centre-east of the country. At the end of last year, the Provincial Executive of Gelderland announced that it was participating in the European JIVE2 program (Joint Initiative For Hydrogen Vehicles Across Europe), which focuses on the promotion of emission-free public transport. The aim is to increase the number of hydrogen buses in public transport, inter alia through subsidies of €148,000 per bus. Across Europe, this includes subsidies for 152 buses in 14 European regions.
Solaris to deliver 11 trolleybuses to Romania s Targu Jiu under 4.5 mln euro deal Source: Solaris
BUCHAREST (Romania), January 27 (SeeNews) - Solaris Bus & Coach, a unit of Spain s Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF), said on Wednesday it won a 4.5 million euro ($5.45 million) tender for a contract to deliver 11 trolleybuses to the southern Romanian city of Targu Jiu.
The new Trollino 12 type trolleybuses can carry up to 91 passengers and will begin to operate in the first part of 2022, the company said in a press release.
Targu Jiu is yet another Romanian city that will see deliveries of new Solaris trolleybuses. Earlier this month, Solaris announced that it would deliver 25 trolleybuses to the central city of Brasov over the next twelve months under a 63 million lei ($15.6 million/ 12.9 million euro) contract it had won. In July, Solaris delivered 26 trolleybuses to Brasov municipality.
Solaris Bus in Polish second-life battery consortium
A consortium comprising Solaris Bus & Coach, Impact Clean Power Technology S.A. and TAURON Polska Energia will implement a project titled “Second Life ESS” with the aim to create a prototype system to store electric energy based on retired electric bus batteries. The project is being co-financed by the National Center for Research and Development (NCBiR) in Poland.
Solaris launched its first electric bus back in 2011. Since then, the manufacturer has sold more than 1,000 e-buses to several dozen towns and cities across 18 countries. The first of the vehicles delivered then have now covered over half a million kilometers each. This means that in some of them it will be necessary to replace their battery packs.
CAF unit to deliver hybrid buses to Romania s Reghin under 3.6 mln euro deal Solaris Urbino 12
Source: Solaris
BUCHAREST (Romania), December 16 (SeeNews) - Solaris Bus & Coach, a unit of Spain s Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF), said on Wednesday it won a 17.5 million lei ($4.4 million/ 3.6 million euro) tender for a contract to deliver ten hybrid buses to Romanian municipality of Reghin by the end of March 2022.
This will be Solaris first delivery of hybrid buses to Reghin, the company said in a press release.
The ordered Urbino 12 type Solaris buses feature a hybrid propulsion system consisting of a 120 kW traction engine and a 151 kW diesel engine that meets Euro 6 emission standards. The vehicles can carry up to 90 passengers.