Solaris has been awarded an order for 87 hybrid buses that will likely be used within the metropolitan space of Barcelona (Spain). The hybrid fleet will likely be managed by AMB (Space Metropolitana de Barcelona), the establishment that administers city transport within the metropolis and its neighboring municipalities. The low-emission hybrid Urbino will likely be delivered to the shopper beginning subsequent November.
The 12-meter Urbino 12 hybrid autos will be part of 30 an identical fashions that AMB ordered in March 2021. This funding is in step with the coverage adopted by Catalonia’s largest metropolis to buy solely low- or zero-emission autos from 2021.
The tender was managed by native operator TMB (owned by AMB), however the newly ordered Solaris buses, just like the earlier 30 autos, will be part of AMB’s fleet and can serve all the Barcelona metropolitan space.
All of the autos ordered will characteristic gear much like that put in within the fashions ordered in 2021. There will likely be a hybrid drive system consisting of an electrical traction motor and an inside Euro 6 combustion engine producing greater than 150 kW.
With supercapacitors to retailer and use recovered power, the buses will ship decrease power consumption and subsequently decrease emissions. Comparable power financial savings will likely be achieved with the Arrive & Go system, which turns off the engine when approaching a cease and turns it again on once more when leaving.
The purely electrical operation mode reduces noise and emissions. Working within the Arrive & Go mode, the buses will alert pedestrians to the presence of the electrical automobile with audible indicators.
At present, greater than 100 Solaris buses run within the metropolitan space of Barcelona, together with virtually 90 hybrid and 19 electrical autos.
