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Busworld 2019 Solaris widens e-mobility offer page 8 Batteries in electric buses of Solaris page 14
Real zero-emission revolution page 18
ISSN 1689-6076 In this issue: As an introduction
Busworld 2019: Solaris widens Dear Readers, e-mobility offer Dear Friends, 8/13 At the largest bus exhibition in Europe, the Busworld 2019, Solaris unveiles three product We are on a roll. We started the novelties. All buses feature electric drives which Solaris believes to be the future year 2019 with huge ambitions, of city transport. and have fulfilled these to a large extent. Having landed multiple large and small tenders for electric Batteries in electric buses of Solaris buses, Solaris has now become the top producer in Europe in terms of Today, Solaris offers the following batteries to its electric buses: Solaris High Power, contracted electric buses and our Solaris High Energy and Solaris High Energy+. Over 20 million kilometres covered by 14/17 firm has turned into one of the the electric buses Urbino make it possible for Solaris today to offer the optimal battery chief agents of the transition of solutions to its customers. European urban transport to low- emission technologies.
Real zero-emission revolution And yet, we do not rest on our European cities which already have experience of using electric buses, are now proce- laurels, but do quite the opposite – eding to hold larger and larger tenders for more vehicles. In the first months of 2019, we are accelerating. Our ambitions 18/23 are not limited to succeeding in Solaris has landed gigantic deals with Berlin, Milan and Warsaw, for a total of up to sales. Urban transport is undergoing 470 buses! enormous changes – regarding the Busworld 2019 we are going to The issue of the Solaris Magazine both the approach of passengers unveil an articulated electric bus I hereby hand over to You features eSConnect – bespoke solutions themselves, as well as technologies. featuring the latest generation articles and information about We seek to respond to these and of batteries designed by Solaris events that were of great importance Embracing the global development of the e-mobility market and the customer needs sometimes – to anticipate them. engineers. Also in Brussels, we to us in the past months, about 28/31 which we continuously monitor, Solaris engineers have ventured to design a modern sys- We complete our portfolio of eco- will show the Trollino 24 – the this year’s débuts and the latest tem of remote diagnostics for electric buses. friendly buses with premières of longest vehicle to have ever rolled technological solutions, as well as other innovative vehicles, and we out of the Bolechowo factory, and the extensive after-sales offer of 04/07 News equip them with new technologies which crowns the list of this year’s Solaris tailored to suit the needs of 24/26 More safety – autonomous systems in Solaris buses serving the safety of passengers premières. Many years ago our firm our Clients. and city dwellers. entered a course towards electric 27 500 Solaris buses on Norwegian streets public transport. Today, all market 32/33 MetroStyle anew June saw the début of the hydrogen- players are heading for that same 34/35 After the conference „Direction E-mobility” fuelled Urbino 12 hydrogen, and at direction. 36/37 We create great things together! 38/39 Electric road towards the future My warmest regards and happy reading! 40/42 Solaris Optiline – Solaris original spare parts line 44 / 45 Servicing buses with alternative drivelines 46 Solaris’ volunteers helping again 47 Report on the Poznań Business Run 2019 Javier Calleja Publisher: Solaris Bus & Coach S.A., Obornicka 46, Bolechowo-Osiedle, 62-005 Owińska, Poland, tel.: +48 61 6672 333, fax: +48 61 6672 345, CEO of Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. e-mail: [email protected], www.solarisbus.com Editorial staff: Agata Barnaś, Mateusz Figaszewski, Anna Kordylas, Anna Kozłowska, Agnieszka Kubiak, Marcin Napierała, Maciej Sankowski Photos: Solaris Bus & Coach S.A., Karol Grzonka (PKT Gdynia) Design and typeset: Weave Studio Dominika Banaszak.
2 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2019 Autumn 2019 / Customer Magazine / 3 Bolzano orders 12 Solaris hydrogen buses Modena and Parma opt for Solaris trolleybuses
The Italian city of Bolzano is The energy stored in hydrogen is generate any noxious substances The companies SETA Modena traction batteries with a capacity the first one to order Solaris directly fed into the driveline of whatsoever. Hydrogen is stored in and TEP Parma, both providing of 45 kWh and a cooling system, Urbino 12 hydrogen buses. the vehicle. Thanks to the use of composite roof tanks. Part of the carrier services in the Emilia- all of which will allow the vehicles Twelve Solaris hydrogen buses advanced technology, the bus will contract is also a special drivers’ Romagna region in the North of to cover a much longer distance will follow the last year’s be capable of covering up to 350 km and workshop personnel’s training the country, have placed orders without the need to be attached delivery of battery vehicles. on a single refill. The sole products emphasizing the safety aspects for altogether 18 modern to overhead wires. There will be The contract includes an 8 year- of the chemical reaction occurring of using and servicing hydrogen Solaris Trollino 12 vehicles. room for nearly 80 passengers long service and maintenance in the fuel cell are heat and steam. vehicles. in the air-conditioned passenger package. Consequently, the vehicle does not Eight of the trolleybuses com- compartment, and 24 of them will Already in June, during the UITP missioned will join the fleet of SETA be seated. The seats, as well as Global Public Transport Summit, Modena, the other ten will go to TEP internal walls, window pillars and representatives of Solaris and Régie Parma. The latest Solaris Trollino 12 the cover of the battery chamber Autonome des Transports Parisiens ordered by the two carriers are twin will be given an anti-graffiti coating. Fot. Karol Grzonka. PKT Gdynia (RATP) have signed a contract for structures. The first recipient will be The vehicle will also encompass lease and tests of the Urbino 12 transport firm SETA Modena. Eight a passenger information system hydrogen. The operator responsible vehicles adjusted to serving on with external and internal direction for public transport in Paris for a trolleybus route with an atypical displays and voice announcement 10 weeks (April-June 2020) will voltage rate of 750V (usually 600- loudspeakers and energy-saving test the Solaris hydrogen bus in 650V), meaning the rate used in lighting in LED technology. regular passenger traffic. This is Modena, will be delivered to the city another step made by RATP in the lying at the foot of the Apennines Solaris Bus & Coach added preparations for transforming its by the end of 2020. Meanwhile, trolleybuses to its offer back in fleet to completely zero emissions the delivery of 10 zero-emission 2001. Since then, having supplied vehicles. Solaris vehicles for TEP Parma will nearly 1500 vehicles of that type to be carried out in several batches, customers in 16 countries, including between April and July next year. 160 to Italy, the firm has become a leader in the segment among Cotral orders InterUrbino buses, again The vehicles will feature among manufacturers in the EU. others a central traction motor and
Cortal, the Rome-based carrier in charge of regional transport, of 5.2 m2). The driveline in the has signed another framework contract with Solaris Bus & Coach intercity buses of Solaris consists S.A. for the supply of up to 300 intercity buses of the InterUrbino of engines with a power of 251 kW, type. Covering also ten years’ worth of maintenance services, the meeting the restrictive Euro 6 stage Solaris electric buses are going to Bilbao contract is worth EUR 117 million. The first order for 50 units is of emissions standards. to be carried out in 2019. The vehicles will be put to use on bus routes connecting the towns of the Rome Province and of the whole The recently signed deal is one Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. Polish producer will also apply Lazio Region. of the biggest commissions in signed a contract with ALSA innovative thermal management the history of the firm. Once the Group SLU for a delivery of two solutions, whereby the vehicles will It is yet another order of consi- inside the bus (shelves above contract is performed, there might Urbino 12 electric buses and be automatically pre-conditioned to derable size for that bus model of the seats), as well as a luggage be up to 660 InterUrbino buses two stationary chargers. The the desired temperature one hour the Polish manufacturer. Having compartment outside (electrically riding across Rome and its suburbs. vehicles will operate on routes before setting out – if the outside completed the agreement from 2016 blocked luggage hold with a capacity of the biggest city of the Basque temperature drops below 15 degrees. for the delivery of 360 InterUrbino country – Bilbao. buses in total, the Italian operator Nearly 200 vehicles from the decided in favour of more deliveries The ‘Bus of the Year 2017’ award- Bolechowo-based factory have to by Solaris. winning Solaris Urbino 12 electric will date made their way to Spain. Notable feature an axle with two integrated examples include 3 articulated electric The commissioned 12-metre Solaris traction engines of 125 kW each and buses supplied to Barcelona, and InterUrbino are cutting-edge inter- a pack of 240 kWh Solaris High Energy nearly 80 hybrid drive vehicles which city buses specialising in the batteries which will be recharged can be encountered in Barcelona transport of passengers on longer using a plug-in connector. as well as the city of San Sebastian, distances, on routes reaching located in the Basque Country. beyond city limits. 67 pas- The passengers will benefit from air sengers can stay on board, with conditioning, passenger information seats available to 55 of them. In system with voice announcement, addition, the vehicles will have video surveillance, as well as USB a space dedicated to hand baggage ports installed in handrails. The
4 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2019 Autumn 2019 / Customer Magazine / 5 Solaris the biggest manufacturer Solaris joins ITxPT on electric bus market in Europe The main purpose of the ITxPT initiative is the standardisation and thus will allow the firm to offer of IT solutions in public transport. Solaris joined the organisation products that are fully compatible Thanks to three large orders and Solaris has taken the lead in Warsaw (MZA). A total of up to 470 in the first half of 2019 and has since been actively collaborating with components available on the placed by customers from Europe in terms of contracts landed vehicles will roll off the assembly with other component suppliers in order to ensure full compliance market. Berlin, Warsaw and Milan, for electric buses. line in Bolechowo to these three of IT systems and products in various transport areas, including Solaris has claimed the lead metropolises alone. In addition, the in buses. From the perspective of the spot in Europe in terms of In the first months of 2019, Solaris producer has contracted 90 more operator, this may prove an contracts for electric buses in secured three large orders for electric buses that are to make its Over the past few decades, compu- the construction of IT architecture immense convenience. That is 2019. The electric revolution the supply of electric buses to way to other European cities. terisation has asserted itself in based on Plug&Play components. because the ITxPT label will warrant in the bus segment coincides Berlin (BVG), Milan (ATM) and public transport, which obviously Joining the institution’s member that systems built in compliance with the company’s long- also includes vehicles of the Solaris group will help Solaris actively with the organisation’s standards term strategy which assumes Urbino family. With every year, participate in the process of stan- will communicate effortlessly with investments in particular in the buses have more and more IT dardisation of parts and systems, other systems. the development of alternative systems installed in them – the drives. systems ensure better operability of the vehicle, enhance safety and ease The European electric bus fleet the drivers’ job, thus contributing to has increased a nearly 15-fold the improvement of the passengers’ over the past 5 years. The rapid travel experience. development of this sector serves as confirmation to Solaris that it The organisation ITxPT (Information was right in choosing this direction Technology for Public Transport) nearly a decade ago, and building promotes interoperability of IT its first electric bus. Today, several systems in public transport. In order hundred Urbino electric buses keep to achieve this goal, and to ensure carrying thousands of passengers a fully compatible cooperation every day, in 16 countries in Europe of interfaces of various products, the ITxPT supports among others
30 Urbino 12 electric to Venice „Safe road to school” with Solaris
The Solaris company has won another zero-emission order Solaris believes that the safety from neighbouring municipalities In this year’s edition, of the for its electric buses in Italy. of all road users, in particular covered by a public transport 500 participants, the organisers ACTV SPA Venezia operator has of the youngest ones, has agreement. The educational objec- selected 65 prizewinners whose placed an order at the Polish always been and will always be tive of the contest was to promote works were then “made public” on manufacturer for a delivery of an undeniable priority. In April, knowledge of road traffic rules the Solaris bus running in Ostrów 30 Solaris Urbino 12 electric the firm became a partner of and rules of using public transport Wielkopolski. buses and charging infrastru- the event “Save road to school” infrastructure among primary cture. The total value of the in Ostrów Wielkopolski – school pupils of the first grade. contract exceeds 20 million a campaign aimed at promoting euros. the knowledge of road traffic rules among primary school The buses will be used on the first-graders. Lido and Pellestrina islands and will replace 100% of the diesel The competition “Safe road to vehicles currently operating on electric motors of 2 x 125 kW. will be equipped with a number school” was organised by the two islands. In addition to the The energy needed to drive them of amenities. These include municipal transport operator MZK vehicles, the Polish manufacturer will be stored in Solaris High efficient air conditioning, extensive in Ostrów Wielkopolski under the will deliver nine fast pantograph Power batteries with 116 kWh of passenger information and video auspices of the city’s mayor. Its battery chargers, six fixed plug-in total capacity. The vehicles will monitoring system on board. All consecutive, fourth edition took battery chargers and a mobile plug- be adapted for a plug-in and vehicles as well as the infrastructure place in April this year. in charger. pantograph charging. will be delivered before the end of 2020. The initiative is addressed at Electric buses for Venice will be The Solaris Urbino 12 electric primary school first graders of the driven by a drive axle with integrated vehicles for the ACTV SPA operator Ostrów Wielkopolski region and
6 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2019 Autumn 2019 / Customer Magazine / 7 Busworld 2019:
Solaris widens its e-mobility offer. For many years, Solaris has been a complementary emission-free and completely emission-free standing at the forefront of bus vehicle portfolio – encompassing buses, representing the broad New generation of batteries, producers investing intensely in electric buses, trolleybuses and offer of vehicles catering to the the development of alternative hydrogen-fuelled buses. Solaris e-mobility concept. The first of these drives. The company is the biggest believes that, in order to warrant is the Solaris Urbino 18 electric innovative hydrogen bus trolleybus manufacturer in the sustainable transport of the future, bus, equipped with batteries of the European Union and in 2019 it it is necessary to foster various latest generation. The one second and trolleybus première took the lead in terms of number types of e-mobility solutions. is the longest, 24-meter Solaris of contracted electric buses. The flexible offer of Solaris with vehicle – the trolleybus Trollino 24, Today, barely a decade since its regard to zero-emission vehicles on display in the new Metrostyle première in 2011, several hundred is the firm’s response to the rapid design. The last of the three is the At the largest bus exhibition in Europe, the Busworld 2019, Solaris unveiles Urbino electric carry thousands development of that sector, and highly technologically advanced of passengers every day, in the surging demand of clients who Urbino 12 hydrogen whose big three product novelties. All buses feature electric drives which Solaris believes 16 countries in Europe, whereas the are preparing for a transition to première took place a few months to be the future of city transport and in the development of which the company odometer of electric kilometres has emission-free transport. prior, at the UITP trade fair. invests consistently. The electric bus fitted with new generation batteries, the already exceeded 20 million km. During this year’s exhibition bi-articulated trolleybus and the ingenious hydrogen bus represent the wide Following the path of progress, the Busworld 2019 in Brussels, Solaris range of Solaris’ e-mobility vehicles. producer has managed to create showcases three ground-breaking
8 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2019 Autumn 2019 / Customer Magazine / 9 Solaris Trollino 24
Presented to the public for the installed in the bus is charged power steering (EPS) system, among first time at the Busworld 2019, during the drive, collecting current others. Up to 215 persons will be the bi-articulated Trollino 24 is from the overhead line via a bipolar able to hitch a ride on the trolleybus. the longest vehicle assembled by pantograph traditionally in use This début model features cameras the Polish manufacturer so far. in trolleybuses. What is more, the in lieu of side mirrors. The idea behind the Trollino was energy accumulated in the batteries to create a platform for the future, will be used to fuel the trolleybus The Trollino 24 is also a first serial production of 24-metre whenever it is detached from the timer, built according to the new vehicles with an electric or hybrid electric traction line. In order to MetroStyle design form, adapted driveline and of trolleybuses. The ease manoeuvres in urban traffic, to the 4th generation Urbino (for Trollino 24 is a technically highly the fourth axle of the vehicle has more details on the MetroStyle advanced model. Its driveline also been made the steering axle. design see pages 32-33). consists of two traction motors of Apart from featuring a unique door 160 kW each, propelling two drive layout of 1-2-2-2-2, the vehicle has Solaris Urbino axles. A pack of 58 kWh batteries also been fitted with an electric 18 electric
Nowadays, the distinctive line of details on the batteries, including the field of view substantially and the articulated Urbino 18 electric is the Solaris High Energy+, in the they improve the aerodynamics known to many operators; over 200 Urbino electric see pages 14-17). of the vehicle. This new solution models have been commissioned is already available for the whole by clients so far. The bus displayed The Solaris Urbino 18 electric on Urbino family. at the Busworld, however, has been display has been equipped with uniquely equipped. advanced driver assistance systems In order to reduce the energy (ADAS) which increase significantly consumption as much as possible, What is an absolute novelty is both travel comfort and – above all – the articulated Urbino electric the new-generation batteries safety. The Mobileye Shield+ device features air conditioning with Solaris High Energy+ which the remedies the risk of collisions with a heat pump which uses heat manufacturer is showing for the pedestrians or cyclists thanks to from the outside to generate an first time in Brussels. The batteries a system of smart cameras which adequate temperature inside the stand out on account of their high constantly monitor the so-called vehicle. This device uses carbon energy density, thanks to which the blind spots in a vehicle. The driver dioxide as the working fluid which bus will easily be able to cover 200 is alerted to potential dangers with is currently considered the most km on a single charging session, sound and visual signals. environment-friendly solution. The irrespective of road and weather implementation of the CO2 heat conditions. However, the perfected What is more, the electric Solaris pump is supposed to enhance the parameters of the energy storage will feature the system initiating energy efficacy of the vehicle, and tanks will also allow to maintain automatic braking, i.e. the CMS thus increase its drive range, but a still significant passenger load (Collision Mitigation System). When also to reduce noxiousness. at a much increased range – there a radar installed on top of the bus will be room for 120 people on the detects the risk of a potential head- Yet another innovation applied in articulated electric bus, including on collision, the system goes into the vehicle is a traction inverter 40 seated ones. braking mode, reducing velocity and produced in the innovative SiC thus alleviating the consequences technology, i.e. using silicon carbide. 7 battery packs with a total capacity of a potential collision. Owing to this, the device can operate of 553 kWh have been installed in at higher voltage, frequencies the Urbino 18 electric. 3 batteries Where the side mirrors would and temperatures, which, in turn, have been stowed away in the rear be conventionally, the 18-meter results in a significant reduction end of the vehicle, and four – on Solaris features cameras that of the mass and size of the power the roof of the first section. The bus ensure improved visibility not only converter and in a general increase is charged via a plug-in connector, in bright sunlight, but also during in efficiency of the whole system. yet the new batteries also allow rain or snowfall, as well as at night. for pantograph charging (for more What is more, the cameras increase
10 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2019 Autumn 2019 / Customer Magazine / 11 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen Forum on modern public transportation Also exhibited at the Solaris stand will be capable of covering up to and energy recuperated during the is the most novel product in Solaris’ 350 km on a single refill. braking process. Complementing portfolio – the hydrogen-fuelled the driveline is an axle with Urbino 12 hydrogen, which débuted As for the hydrogen storing integrated electric motors. Let’s talk about in June 2019, at the UITP trade technology, the Urbino 12 hydrogen fair. It is a completely emission- features cutting-edge solutions. Just like the Urbino 18 electric, e-mobility free vehicle in which hydrogen The fuel is stored in gaseous form the hydrogen vehicle also features is transformed in a fuel cell into in 5 new-generation composite a climate comfort system using electricity which, in turn, propels tanks placed alongside on the a CO2 heat pump. In this particular the driveline. bus roof. A multifunctional valve case, the pump additionally uses encompassing a range of safety waste heat from the fuel cell. This The Urbino 12 hydrogen is fitted measures is installed at the end of solution guarantees very high with a state-of-the-art fuel cell of each cylinder. efficiency and allows to increase : : p.m. 60 kW which acts as a miniature the drive range of the vehicle even Solaris al s hydrogen power plant on board of The bus is equipped with a Solaris more. presentation A an networkin the vehicle. The sole “by-products” High Power battery whose role it is generated during the operation of to support the fuel cell in moments the Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen are of increased demand for electric heat and steam. Thanks to the use power. The battery is recharged of advanced technology, the bus using energy derived from hydrogen