POLAND Solaris Bus & Coach is to supply Miejskie Zak?ady Autobusowe, MZA (Warsaw City Bus Company) with 10 Urbino 12 electrics, the first order of its size for battery buses in the country. Delivery is expected to start in May, concluding by June.
The buses will be fitted with 200kWh batteries and 160kW traction motors. Batteries will be charged using a conventional plug-in connection and the charger is provided with an option to lower the charging power to 40kW. Construction of the buses offers an alternative to mount another charging system – a pantograph installed on the roof. Included in the specification will be air-conditioning, CCTV and wireless internet access.
“The vehicles purchased are absolutely emission-free and very quiet,” said CEO Jan Ku?mi?ski. “These electric buses stand for the true modernity of MZA,” “In the first place, the Solaris Urbino electric will operate on the glamorous Royal Route.”
Solange Olszewska, CEO of Solaris Bus & Coach added: “We congratulate MZA on this forward-looking investment in the technology of the future. We want to confirm to the people of Warsaw that the buses ordered are European quality products of highest standards. We are proud that it is Solaris which will have the pleasure of delivering electric buses to Warsaw City Bus Company. Purchasing electric vehicles is putting MZA among the leading and most innovative public transport operators in Europe.”
By 2016 there will be at least 30 electric buses running for MZA from its Redutowa depot in Warsaw.
