“Our strategic objective is to serve our customers by offering ‘right’ solutions that perfectly meet their demands. We believe that a wide range of product and technology portfolio is a necessity, also for the industry’s quicker transition to zero-emission public mobility.
Europe is the emerging hotspot for electric city buses in the world, next to China. Experts ascertain a fleet size of around 4,000 electric buses across the continent at present, of which about one-fourth accounts for those manufactured by Solaris Bus and Coach S.A. It is one of the leading bus and trolleybus manufacturers in Europe, also expected to be the largest e-bus producing brand in terms of volumes. Just a month ago, the company bagged an order for 20 battery-electric buses for the Polish city of Jaworzno.
With over 25 years of experience in the bus industry, having manufactured more than 19,000 vehicles so far, the CAF Group (Spain)-owned company is setting new standards in zero-emission mobility solutions, including hydrogen fuel cell buses. The Solaris range also includes conventional diesel buses, hybrid variants (series and parallel systems) with batteries, and supercapacitors along with low-emission CNG. The company is also known for fabricating a variety of bi-articulated and trolleybuses, inter-city, special application buses, and trams. Its latest 24-meter Trollino 24 MetroStyle double articulated trolley bus has won the International Top Design award during the Arena Design 2020 event in Poznan. Excerpts from the interview:
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