The Slovakian service Dopravný podnik Bratislava (DPB) has opted for 4 hydrogen buses to be manufactured and delivered by Solaris. That is the primary order positioned below a framework settlement. These buses would be the first hydrogen buses in Slovakia. Based on a framework settlement concluded by DPB with the bus maker, the Slovakian service might finally order as much as 40 hydrogen buses. The primary 4 Urbino 12 hydrogen autos shall be delivered in July subsequent 12 months.
The center of the Urbino 12 hydrogen bus is a 70 kW gasoline cell pack. The hydrogen system additionally options auxiliary gadgets, for example to provide hydrogen and air at an ample stress to recirculate hydrogen that has not been used up, and in addition to keep up a correct and secure temperature of the gasoline cells throughout operation.
Urbino 12 Hydrogen in Köln, Germany
Electrical energy generated throughout operation of the automobile within the gasoline cell is handed on on to the driveline. The hydrogen is saved in gaseous type in composite tanks positioned on the bus roof.
Individually, Solaris introduced that it just lately signed a contract for its 2,000th electrical bus.
Orders for these 2,000 Urbino electrical autos have been positioned by carriers from greater than 140 cities and cities in 21 European international locations. Greater than 1,300 autos out of this pool have already been delivered and improve public transport. One other 700 electrical models shall be manufactured this 12 months or within the years to comply with.
Electrical Urbino autos bolster trendy and environmentally pleasant transport in such cities as Berlin, Bolzano, Brussels, Cluj-Napoca, Cracow, Landshut, Madrid, Milan, Oslo, Paris, Warsaw and Venice.
Solaris launched the primary 8.9-meter Urbino electrical bus in 2011. The Urbino 12 electrical bus has been manufactured since 2012. A 12 months later, the articulated Urbino 18 electrical bus was unveiled. In 2019, a platform for the bi-articulated Urbino 24 electrical was developed, and in 2020 the Urbino 15 LE electrical was launched as the primary intercity e-bus in Solaris’ electrical vary. In 2021, 10 years after the launch of its predecessor, the most recent electrical bus was offered to the general public: the Urbino 9 LE electrical.
Solaris manufactures greater than 1,500 buses yearly, with almost half of those that includes totally or partly electrical drives.
