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„Custom-made buses Trade fair announcements E-mobility revolution are our speciality” Busworld 2017 – new contracts for Solaris Interview with Zbigniew Palenica page 14 page 20 page 11

ISSN 1689-6076 In this issue: As an introducion

11/13 „Custom-made buses are our speciality” – interview with Zbigniew Palenica, Vice-CEO of Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. about the current condition of the firm and future prospects.

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Trade fair announcements Dear Readers, Solaris once again attends the biggest exhibition of the bus industry in Europe, the Busworld fair. This time the company is going to present its For many years now our research cities and, moreover, low-emission bigger changes and a significant premiere Urbino 18 electric, the twelve-metre hybrid with a serial drive and development efforts have mobility yields huge benefits acceleration of the trend are in and the new Urbino 10,5. been focused on public transport for citizens, while concurrently store for this segment next year. It vehicles that allow to reduce the increasing the innovativeness seems that in the following years negative impact of transport on and competitiveness of a whole electric buses will become a much the environment. The outcome of industry. Solaris, too, has signed bigger, and ultimately dominant, 20/25 these efforts are, among others, this declaration. It is with great part of our production structure. hybrid buses, electric buses and satisfaction that we see this trolleybuses. document becoming reality; indeed, Obviously, it constitutes a huge E-mobility revolution – new we, as manufacturers, witness this challenge for our enterprise. That contracts for Solaris Solaris’ activities of more than every day. is why we, as an organisation, have ten years correspond well to the already started preparing for the A record number of contracts for electric buses confirms that big changes message of the recently published We follow zealously news about changes that e-mobility will bring are in store for the public transport sector in Europe. European Clean Bus Declaration. yet another public transport about. Most importantly though, we The European Commission operator go for low-emission or see this as an immense opportunity. underscores in the aforementioned zero-emission solutions. This year A chance to make public transport document that zero-emission alone the fleet of electric buses even more passenger- and citizen- 04/10 Novelties transport is the most efficient form with the Solaris logo will grow in friendly. Now, as much as in the 26/27 Double force of hybrids of public mobility in regions and Europe by nearly 100 vehicles. Even future. 28/29 Towards digitisation 30/33 Solaris Logistics Center My warmest regards and enjoy the latest edition of our “Magazyn Solaris”. 34/35 Solaris cares for the disabled – Solaris trains constructors

Solange Olszewska Publisher: Solaris Bus & Coach S.A., Obornicka 46, Bolechowo-Osiedle, 62-005 Owińska, , tel.: +48 61 6672 333, CEO faks: +48 61 6672 345, e-mail: [email protected], www.solarisbus.com Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. Editorial staff: Karolina Sarmow, Mateusz Figaszewski, Marcin Napierała, Katarzyna Konieczna, Maciej Sankowski Photos: Solaris Bus & Coach S.A., Stadtwerke München/MVG, MPK w Częstochowie sp. z o.o. Design and typeset: Weave Studio Dominika Banaszak

Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. is ambassador of the of the “Polish Industry Brand” Program managed by the Polish Ministry of Development.

2 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2017 Autumn 2017 / Customer Magazine / 3 However, the Italian carriers have Premiere 18 electric chosen different recharging modes for their electric buses. The Urbino gets tested in 12 electric for ATB Bergamo will use a Medcom charger providing the possibility of concurrently Autumn will see the début of The producer has decided to apply a CCTV system (improving the safety charging two buses with 40 kW. the new generation Urbino Solaris High Energy batteries with on the bus) and ramps easing the The ATM Milano, on the other hand, 18 electric on Warsaw streets. an increased capacity in the vehic- entry and exit of wheelchair-bound has decided in favour of a 70 kW The bus will be tried out by le; these can be charged both by passengers - all of these will be at on-board charger of the same municipal operator Miejskie means of a plug-in as well as the the passengers’ disposal. producer. Zakłady Autobusowe (MZA) roof-mounted pantograph provided in Warsaw for two years; the by Schunk. The Solaris battery buses are alrea- Having delivered nearly 740 vehicles experience from the test run dy quite famous in the capital. Ten to customers in Italy so far, Solaris will help to further develop Warsaw inhabitants and passengers zero-emission Urbino 12 buses have considers the orders from Bergamo e-mobility in the Polish capital will also benefit from the test. That been covering bus route 222 since and Milan a token of appreciation which plans to buy 130 more is because the new bus to cruise on 2015 and in July this year Solaris for Solaris on that market. Keep in electric buses in the near Warsaw streets will be emission- Bus & Coach S.A. signed a deal with mind that it is Apennine Peninsula future. -free and extremely quiet, ensuring MZA for the delivery of another ten that the biggest order in the history thus a maximum level of comfort to 12-metre electric buses of the fo- of the Polish bus manufacturer The test vehicle will be equipped those on board. An air-conditioned urth generation, about which you came from: for the delivery of 360 with a ZF AVE 130-400 drive axle passenger compartment, extensive may read more on page 25. InterUrbino buses to the company with integrated electric motors. passenger information system, WiFi, Cotral of the region of Lazio.

Solaris awarded EBUS Award 2017

Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. has been awarded in the prestigious EBUS The winners of this year’s title EBUS Award 2017 competition, organised by the VDV (Association of Award 2017 were determined by German Transport Companies). The Polish manufacturer has been group of business representatives distinguished for its long-running contribution to the development and clients that participated in of zero-emission public transport, for its consistent actions in this earlier editions of the sector area and also for its readiness to adjust to client expectations and conference on “Electric buses its broad range of e-mobility solutions on offer. - market of the future!”. The winners were appointed in four categories: bus producers, component or sub- component makers, consulting and monitoring firms and carriers (divided into metropolises and medium-sized cities).

– The EBUS Award granted to our Milan and Bergamo opt for firm and the new electric are yet another distinction electric Solaris buses which ranks Solaris among the top producers of city and intercity buses with alternative fuel drives. This In the past weeks Solaris The Solaris Urbino 12 electric stored in a set of batteries of the is irrefutable proof that the path secured orders for the supply ordered by ATB Bergamo and ATM Solaris High Energy type with a total Solaris’ technical office, and with it of 22 electric buses to Italy. Milano are similar constructions in capacity of 240 kWh. The producer the whole staff following the way of Twelve new Solaris Urbino 12 terms of the technical parameters. is going to apply an innovative electromobility has taken is correct electric will make their way to Both contracts stipulate that the touch panel of Solaris’ own design ­– Zbigniew Palenica, Vice-CEO of Bergamo-based firm ATB, and drive unit will be an axle with for both vehicle types. Solaris Bus, said while receiving an

10 battery buses have been integrated traction motors. The In the picture: Zbigniew Palenica receiving the award from Rainer Bomba, Secretary of State at the EBUS Award figurine. ordered by Milan carrier ATM. power fuelling the vehicle will be Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure.

4 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2017 Autumn 2017 / Customer Magazine / 5 attachable, nearly-eleven-metre Solaris enters Dutch bus market passenger trailer produced by Swiss company Hess, with whom the Polish firm has collaborated before. The total of 40 new Solaris articulated buses to be equipped passengers that we will deliver The bus and trailer are nearly 23 Urbino 18 articulated buses will with a well-known Dutch engines vehicles with top quality and safety metres long together, whereas be ordered from Solaris by one – DAF. Propulsion unit comply standards – declares Zbigniew the passenger load capacity of of the largest public transport with the strict Euro 6 emission Palenica, Solaris’ Board Member the whole bus set amounts to companies in Netherlands, standards. New in charge of Sales and After Sales. 130 people. Both the bus itself as Connexxion owned by Transdev. buses will be used in Amstelland- Solaris products were so far well as the trailer provide various This is the first ever order won Meerlanden region, within so called present in 30 countries. Thanks to amenities for disabled passengers, by Solaris on the Dutch market. R-net public transport system. this newest order from Netherlands offering the kneeling function as well as the latest contract as well as folding ramps easing Under the agreement 40 Urbino – This is a remarkable and very obtained on the Luxemburg market, the entry of wheelchair-bound buses are going to be delivered by important procurement on the the presence of Solaris vehicles has passengers. the end of this year. All vehicles hermetic Dutch market. We can extended to 32 countries. purchased by Connexxion are assure R-net and Connexxion Bus passenger trailers appeared

first at the beginning of the 20th Photo: Stadtwerke München/MVG century and had their golden age in western Europe some time flexible adaptation of the transport the bus-trailer set is particularly around the 40s and 50s of that capacity to passenger traffic appreciated. Four new Urbino of this century. Later on the trailers started changing throughout the day. type were supplied to RDG Gründau making way to articulated vehicles, in 2016. Other cities to use Solaris and eventually they were almost The Bolechowo-based manufacturer buses with trailers are Nuremberg completely decommissioned. The delivered its first buses adapted and Fürth, located right next to the only exception to that rule were to hauling a trailer in 2008, to former. Solaris have supplied two Austria and Estonia, where the Austrian carrier Ledermair Schwaz. and three “bus trains” respectively solution remained in regular use. The order covered five Urbino 12 to each city. Also Reutlingen and The biggest advantage of passenger buses. However, Germany is quickly Altenstadt have each got a bus of trailers coupled with buses is the turning into another market where this type.

Nowa Sól makes public transport a priority

Nowa Sól and adjacent municipalities have decided to build a new system of public More Solaris vehicles transport. The city has bought 23 Solaris buses to drive with trailers in Germany along the new bus lines to be established. The chief goal of the project is to limit the In the first half of this year Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. supplied in air-conditioned passenger com- low pollutant emission and total 11 buses adapted to pulling passenger trailers to the capital partment (both in the bus and to create a viable option for of Bavaria. Ten of these reinforced the fleet of carrier Münchner in the trailer), the ticket vendor individual transport. Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG), whereas the eleventh bus was delivered machine and an extensive to operator Oberbayern Münchnen. Both carriers benefited greatly passenger information system. The The inter-community operator in terms of functionality thanks to the added option of adjusting buses have an expertly connected business Międzygminne Przedsię- the length of the vehicle to the current passenger traffic. The new communication system with the biorstwo Komunikacyjne SUBBUS, Solaris buses offering the option to attach a passenger trailer are trailers, thanks to the monitoring established to maintain local becoming quite popular in Germany. system installed in them, consisting public transport, will receive twenty of 4 CCTV cameras and a two- three Solaris Urbino 8,9 LE in July The supplied buses are propelled whether the bus drives with or screen display showing the images 2018. The contract, worth PLN 22.9 by the well-known 271 kW engine without a trailer. captured. Moreover, the driver million, was signed in April and ports enabling the quick charging of local passenger service centres, DAF PACCAR MX-11, meeting the has the possibility of establishing covers the supply of vehicles fitted of a mobile telephone during a bus dynamic passenger information restrictive fuel emission standard The modern vehicles have been a voice connection with passengers with engines meeting the rigorous ride. systems and the creation of an Euro 6. The drive unit is coupled with fitted with a series of solutions travelling in the trailer. Euro 6 standard, containing air- electronic ticket. The investments a Voith Diwa 6 transmission with an improving the safety of drivers and conditioning of the passenger The project of launching a new public have been co-financed under the active function of differentiating of passengers alike. Among those Solaris has delivered a set of compartment and the driver’s transport system also involves the Regional Operational Programme operation modes depending on noteworthy are the comfortable, a twelve-meter bus and an cabin, a CCTV system and USB construction of a new bus depot, of the Lubuskie Voivodeship.

6 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2017 Autumn 2017 / Customer Magazine / 7 The homepage users will certainly a little treat for visitors to the alternative - and vehicle types Solaris record delivery find a lot of significant information website, they are invited to take - special buses and trams. Also, on the site. That is because it has a virtual stroll around the factory. finding representatives of sales for MPK Częstochowa been complemented in great detail and after-sales divisions is now with corporate information. The Fans of particular bus models just as simple thanks to the use of company history has been much will find full product catalogues search engines coupled to Google Forty twelve-metre Solaris Urbino rolled out on the streets of Ticket vending machines have been expanded on, as has the menu tab complemented with technical data maps. The Press Office, too, has got Częstochowa on 5 April 2017. It is the biggest contract concluded by installed in the buses. External and “career” which now links to all job and photos, and when looking for a whole new and transparent face, Solaris with MPK Częstochowa so far. interior lighting of the new Urbinos offers, application forms for dual something particular they are aided whereas the menu tab “Busmania”, is based on economical LED tech- study courses and information on by the intuitive search engine, well-known to everybody, has Every new Urbino for Częstochowa maintenance costs for the carrier. nology. MPK Częstochowa vehicles the Solaris-sponsored vocational with search categories including been integrated with social media. features a Cummins ISB6.7E6 en- The fully air-conditioned vehic- also offer wireless and free Internet school training programme. As propulsion types - conventional, Step in! gine and a Voith Diwa 6 trans- les are equipped with a series of access, and travellers on board can mission. Modern and lightweight amenities, such as a passenger recharge their mobile devices using buses will ensure the travel com- information system or a safety im- USB chargers installed in the bus fort of passengers, as well as low proving digital monitoring system. handrails. “At the Green Dachshund” turns five

The Solaris nursery “At the divided into age groups. Under The first employees’ children to Green Dachshund” is celebrat- the watchful eyes of experienced have attended the nursery are ing its fifth anniversary of op- nursery staff, the children attend now in primary school. And who eration. The company officially various activities, for instance knows, we might see them again launched the nursery facility art, music or English as a foreign soon. After all, they might join exactly on 1 October 2012. So language classes. The nursery pupils the Solaris-sponsored vocational far, some 109 children have keep their own green vegetable school training or take up a dual- “graduated” the nursery. patch, they plant and look after the study course managed by Solaris, in plants themselves, they learn the collaboration with local vocational The “At the Green Dachshund” rules of moving in traffic and the schools and the Technical University nursery is currently looking after rules of safe behaviour on a bus. of Poznań. 31 children of Solaris’ employees Photo: MPK in Częstochowa, Poland www.solarisbus.com

Embracing global trends, Solaris has presented its new website. The solarisbus.com portal stands out not only on account of its novel design, but also because of a series of user amenities.

The new company homepage was created in the new RWD technology which makes the site responsive on any computer as well as any mobile device. Solutions applied in compliance with UI and UX rules ensure its full functionality and flexibility. All the content contained therein will be provided in three languages: Polish, English and German.

8 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2017 Autumn 2017 / Customer Magazine / 9 Solaris signs the European Clean Bus Declaration

Representatives of the board of Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. have signed (2020), Oslo (2020) and the European Declaration of intent on promoting deployment of Warsaw which has recently declared clean buses. Inked, among others, by the European Commission, the it would launch another 130 electric Custom-built buses document is an expression of support for the mass implementation drive vehicles by 2020, which we of zero-emission buses and buses with alternative drives. write about in more details on page 25. are our specialty As underscored by its authors, most efficient form of public the European Declaration is an mobility in regions and cities and The signatories of the document initiative based on three pillars. that low-emission mobility yields drafted by the European Committee These are: a commitment of cities considerable benefits for citizens, of the Regions also include the and producers for the mutual while also increasing innovativeness representatives of European mission of advancing the process of and competitiveness of the industry. metropolises and operators, Interview with Zbigniew Palenica, emission reduction; the creation of apart from Solaris Bus & Coach a platform for information exchange The process has already begun in S.A. and other leading European Vice-CEO of Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. between municipal authorities, Europe, as evidenced by the latest manufacturers. Taking into account and CEO of Solaris Tram Sp. z o.o. carriers and financial organisations; declarations and orders placed by the challenges related to the as well as the establishment of the biggest European metropolises. depletion of natural resources, a group of experts who will assist Athens, Paris and Madrid intend climate change and excessive the cause with their expertise in to eliminate conventional diesel pollution of the environment, technology, economy and logistics. drives from public transport by Solaris undertakes various efforts 2025. Among the cities and regions towards minimising the negative The validation to aforemen- that have announced plans to stop impact on the respective elements tioned Declaration the European the purchase of conventionally thereof, having supplied ecological Commission emphasizes that powered buses are Copenhagen public transport vehicles ever since zero-emission transport is the (since 2014), London (as of 2018), 2001.

In the picture: The signatories of the Declaration. Source: European Commission, Twitter.

10 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2017 Autumn 2017 / Customer Magazine / 11 The vision of the firm owner and founder Krzysztof duties resulting from all so far with our co-operators as part of the compromise in a competition for Olszewski, who, in 2006, uttered the now famous implemented tram deals remain cluster “Polish - supply orders in terms of quality and in the hands of Solaris Bus & chain for electromobility”. However, safety. Solaris Bus & Coach is set line “Diesel has died. Long live electricity.“ has Coach. And by this I mean after- before the new solutions appear for a long-term development and come true. sales services for trams in Poznań, on the market, they will have to co-operation with clients. We Olsztyn, Jena and Braunschweig. get field-tested. That is because we cannot allow ourselves to make Currently underway, the delivery give our clients a product that will unsubstantiated promises. Our of Solaris Traminos to Leipzig is yet serve them over period of a dozen clients always receive the product another order awarded to Solaris or so years. There is no room for they expected to get. Bus & Coach.

Employing about 250 people, Solaris Tram handles sales in Customer Magazine: We are past number of contracts concluded the company will manufacture a consortium with Stadler, as well mid-year. Would you venture to for deliveries next year, I can quite about 1500 vehicles, 10-15% of as the design, production and make some preliminary sales safely say that Solaris is a leader these will be electric buses. Such after-sales maintenance of newly projections for Solaris for the end in Europe in this field. At the end a dynamic growth of this market won tram contracts. The first of of 2017? of June 2017, Solaris was ranked segment means we need to adjust those arrangements concerns the second in Europe in the electric bus our company’s structure as well supply of 7 trams to Braunschweig, Zbigniew Palenica: It appears segment alone, claiming a market as our production and after-sales with the option to increase the that this will be a record year for share of over 15% and losing to the processes. That is why we have to order by another 7 vehicles. It will our company in terms of vehicles number one in the ranking by only keep developing our competencies be a twin construction to the one supplied to customers. It will 2%. Of course, Solaris has been not only with regard to sales in we have supplied over previous be the first time we exceed the working towards this success since the e-mobility segment, but also years. However, the design and magic number of 1400 buses and 2001, when it launched trolleybuses in relation to production and manufacturing process will trolleybuses. This is the result of which are fully electric vehicles. In maintenance work. We estimate be implemented under a new both increased demand on the 2006 Solaris broadened its portfolio that within a time-frame of organisational structure. We are domestic market, as well as of adding hybrid buses to the range, 5 years vehicles with an alternative also participating in new tenders expanding export, for instance to and eventually, in 2011, it showed its drive will make up over half of our as Solaris Tram. The production the Benelux countries. We have first battery bus. Today, over 2000 production. plant in Środa Wielkopolska shall signed our first contracts ever electric drive vehicles of the Solaris be expanded soon, so as to ensure with operators in Belgium and the brand are driving across European This is consistent with the course that the plant will be able to carry Netherlands. 2017 brought about cities. This extensive experience is that more and more European out secured tram contracts as well a record contract for 360 InterUrbino certainly paying off, not only in the carriers are pursuing. The policy as orders within the Stadler group, buses for Italy’s Cotral, as well as field of research, development and of the European Union is also not necessarily those restricted to the delivery of 97 buses (including production, but also in the area quite clear in this respect. This trams. 20 electric buses - editorial note) of after-sales services, which is is evidenced among others by to Cracow operator MPK. Needless highly appreciated by our clients. the recently signed European CM: May you reveal which new to say, our backlog grows not The vision of the firm owner and “Declaration of intent on promoting products Solaris is currently only thanks to large contracts but founder Krzysztof Olszewski, who, deployment of clean buses”, inked working on? also as a result of smaller orders. in 2006, uttered the now famous by representatives of the European Solaris always has and always will line “Diesel has died. Long live Commission, producers, operators ZP: It will hardly be a secret if treat each customer with the same electricity.“ has come true. No-one and organisers of public transport I say that most of our research care and attention, irrespective has any doubts as to that, not even in European metropolises. Solaris, and development projects oscillate of whether that customer orders the competition which back then too, was one of the signatories of around electromobility. We have just one or one hundred buses. This was a little sceptical about electric that declaration. submitted the new generation of is one of our undeniable market vehicles, to say the least. articulated electric buses for long- advantages which, at the same term tests for carrier MZA Warszawa. time, creates huge challenges for us CM: How many electric buses is CM: Staying in the realm of electric During those tests we hope to in terms of design and production. Solaris going to produce this year vehicles, those moving on steel check a few new solutions. We are After all, custom-built buses are and the next? wheels - how is business of the also about to witness the transfer our speciality. company Solaris Tram, which you of the world’s first trolleybuses with ZP: By the end of 2017 we will have are CEO of developing? batteries and hydrogen fuel cells as CM: And how does the firm delivered 70 electric buses to our range extenders to the city of Riga. handle electromobility - related clients in Poland and overseas. ZP: Solaris Tram is a joint venture The hydrogen technology seems to challenges? That is about 5% of Solaris’ output established on the basis of the be quite an interesting, though still and sales this year. On the other rolling stock department of very expensive, solution. We also ZP: In view of the number of hand, sales targets for electric Solaris and benefiting from the have a lot of interesting projects supplied electric buses both in buses for 2018 seem even more capital involvement of a Swiss regarding electric buses which we Poland and abroad, as well as the promising. Assuming that next year company Stadler. Maintenance want to develop in collaboration

12 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2017 Autumn 2017 / Customer Magazine / 13 The “direction e-mobility” has consists in 240 kWh batteries of serial product. Even before the been a key area of development the Solaris High Energy type. In Busworld fair the first copies of for Solaris in the past years. This the case of the model presented the new model made it to carriers. Solaris novelties is evidenced by a growing number at Busworld batteries can be One of those who bought the new of supplied and ordered battery charged either by means of a plug- bus is the Cracow-based MPK to vehicles. By the middle of this year, in connector or via a roof-mounted whom Solaris has supplied 20 Solaris had already sold nearly 200 pantograph. electric buses in total this summer. AT BUSWORLD 2017 buses with electric drives. They Seventeen of these were 12 meters include 8.9-metre MIDI-class and Owing to the reduced unladen long; the three remaining ones twelve-meter buses. What is more, weight of the vehicle and the were articulated buses. One of this year the product range of advantageous distribution of them is truly exceptional - that battery buses has been extended axle load, the passenger capacity is bus number 15,000 to have by an articulated version of the of the presented vehicle totals rolled out of the Solaris factory in new generation. 135 people. This is, of course, Bolechowo. Ever since 2001, Solaris has been continuously participating every two only one of the many options years in the biggest bus industry fair in Europe, the Busworld. Located This year’s Busworld fair in Kortrijk available to customers, because, Meanwhile, in the past weeks will see the official début of the as usual, Solaris is extremely operator PKM Jaworzno suppleme- in the Flemish part of Belgium, right next to the French border, the tiny fourth-generation Solaris Urbino flexible with regard to the needs nted its bus fleet with 22 electric Kortrijk turns into the European bus industry capital for over one week 18 electric. The product is based of operators. The interior design buses, nine of which are articulated in October. This is where many vehicle have premièred. Solaris, too, has on the construction of the new is one of many elements that can vehicles of the new generation. generation Urbino passengers have be fine-tuned to the expectations Interestingly, after completion prepared a vehicle début for the trade fair visitors - namely the articulated already made an acquaintance with of carriers. The same applies to of that order, one third of the version of the new-generation electric bus. after its première in 2014. Up until the battery capacity or the way Jaworzno bus fleet is now made up now the variant has these are recharged. All of these of electric vehicles. That way this been available only with a diesel efforts are to make Solaris buses Polish city of 100,000 inhabitants engine. As of this year, the Urbino more functional and economical can be called beyond doubt an family will gain a new member - depending on existing conditions. e-mobility leader in Europe. the 18-metre zero-emission bus. What is important for operators, The number of electric cars on the On display at the Kortrijk trade, the new-generation articulated streets of European cities is rising The new Solaris Urbino 18 electric the articulated electric bus will be Solaris Urbino electric 18 is not quickly. Solaris takes actively part fitted with a 240 kW central traction only a test version presented on in the development of e-mobility. motor. Its energy storage system trade fairs. Rather, it is a mature One of the market advantages of Solaris is its innovative products which often become trendsetters for the whole sector. That is what happened to hybrid buses in 2006, as well as to electric vehicles in 2011. Since then, nearly the whole bus industry has set course for e-mobility.

Length 18 000 mm Battery High Energy: 240 kWh

Width 2 550 mm Electric fittings Medcom Passenger compartment, 3 400 mm (including pan- Air conditioning Total height driver’s cabin tograph) Seat type Ster 8MU Axle base 5 900 / 6 000 mm Number of seats 38 (*) Independent axle ZF RL Front axle 82 EC Seats accessible from 12 (*) ZF AV 133 reverse axle, low floor Rear axle i=9.81 Passenger capacity 135 (29 t) Neutral axle ZF AVN 132 Door arrangement 2-2-2-2 Traction motor TSA 240 kW (4-pole) Entrance height 320 mm Wheels 275/70 7,50 x 22,5’’ Articulation mecha- Hubner 19,5 (electronically nism controlled) Plug-in, Schunk panto- Charging system graph, power up to 240 kW Brake Electrodynamic

(*) – required load capacity index 150 Autumn 2017 / Customer Magazine / 15 The new .5

The second vehicle on the Solaris stand will be none other than the 10.5-metre new generation Urbino.

The main advantages of that bus A 209 horsepower Cummins modern LED lighting (amber- are its small external dimensions ISB6.7E6C engine has been installed coloured, no less) and USB ports for and its excellent manoeuvrability in the model showcased at the charging mobile devices, located in thanks to which it is extremely fair. However, just like in the diesel the handrails. effective both in small towns, as well Urbino 12, it is possible to install Length 10 550 mm Internal combustion CUMMINS ISB6.7 E6 C engine 280B (209 kW) as on the narrow, cramped streets a DAF MX11 drive unit instead. Both Three Solaris Urbino 10.5 buses Width 2 550 mm of many European metropolises. solutions guarantee dynamic and started cruising around Vienna Transmission ZF 6AP The vehicle was built on the basis economical driving. The engines this year. More vehicles are already Height 3 040 mm Fuel tank 310 l of a 12-meter Solaris modules, meet highly restrictive Euro 6 lined up on the assembly line - they Axle base 4 450 mm but the bus has been shortened emissions standards. are being produced specifically AdBlue tank 40 l by 1.5 meters between the for the Polish cities of Komorniki Independent axle ZF RL Passenger compartment, Front axle Air conditioning first door of and the second axle In spite of its small dimension, the and Kutno, but also for Fürth in 82 EC driver’s cabin compared to the new Urbino 12. bus is doing very well on busier Germany and French Abondance. ZF AV 132, axle transmis- Drive axle Door arrangement 2-2-2 Shortening the construction of routes, too, with its 23 seats six of A picturesquely located town, the sion i = 6.20 the bus required also a reduction which can be accessed from the latter will be able to witness the Front overhang 2 700 mm Seats 23 of the wheelbase from 5,900 mm low floor. The passengers’ comfort advantages of the new Solaris Seats accessible from to 4,450 mm. during a ride is ensured by a highly Urbino 10.5 on winding and steep 6 Rear overhang 3 400 mm low floor efficient air conditioning system, mountain roads.

16 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2017 The new Solaris Urbino 12 Hybrid

The third vehicle to be presented by us during the Busworld is the new Solaris Urbino 12 with a serial hybrid drive. It is one of the 208 hybrid buses Solaris is going to supply to Belgian operator TEC for the Walloon Region.

The supplier of the hybrid unit but it turns on again immediately drive of BAE. The bus is equipped HybriDrive is an American manu- after the supercapacitators run out with a six-cylinder, 6.7-litre and 300 facturer – BAE Systems. The envi- of power. A GPS has been installed HP engine of Cummins ISB6,7 engine, ronmental-friendly drive allows in the vehicle, too, including as well as an asynchronous central to significantly reduce fuel corresponding software that allows motor with a peak performance of consumption and pollutant emiss- for the activation of the Arrive-and- 200 kW. BAE HDS 100 Length 12 000 mm Electric engine ion into the atmosphere. It is made Go function. This option allows to peak performance 190 kW possible by an electric engine switch off the diesel engine even The new Urbino 12 Hybrid boasts Width 2 550 mm Maximum speed 75 km/h fuelled with power from a power as the bus is approaching a bus exceptional drive parameters, Height 3 100 mm storage facility. That facility, in stop. Various tests have shown but what makes it stand out Fuel tank 200 l turn, is charged with the help of that thanks to this environmental- particularly is the forceful and yet Axle base 5 900 mm a generator using a low-capacity friendly solution the bus is able to smooth acceleration. One of the Independent axle Front axle AdBlue tank 40 l (4.5 litres) Cummins diesel engine use up to 20 percent less fuel than main features of the drive is that ZF RL 82 EC Passenger compartment, (a 210 HP Cummins ISB4.5E6). similar vehicles with a conventional it can recuperate kinetic energy ZF AV 133 Drive axle Air conditioning driver’s cabin drive would use. Moreover, the during braking and this energy Axle transmission i = 7.36 Konvekta KL 47 TT The new Solaris hybrid Urbino 12 is engine operates so quietly that is subsequently transformed Front overhang 2 700 mm also available as a zero emission the noise level can be reduced and stored as electric power in Door arrangement 2-2-2 option, which makes the vehicle significantly, which comes in handy a storage facility – in 0.82 kWh Rear overhang 3 400 mm Passenger capacity 99 like an electric bus. Thanks to the in particular in crowded city centres. supercapacitators. Drive BAE hybrid drive installation of the Stop-and-Go Energy storage system BAE supercapacitators Seats 21 system, the diesel engine turns off As of recently Solaris’ new offer also Internal combustion Seats accessible from completely during stopovers at bus includes an 18-metre version of the CUMMINS ISB 4.5 E6 7 stops and the opening of doors, producer’s hybrid bus with a serial engine low floor

18 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2017 2017 is abundant in orders a surprise - electric buses do not emit harmful gases, they use up for electric buses. Even less energy and they raise the comfort of travel considerably. These E-mobility though battery buses have arguments have convinced operators not only in large metropolises. settled in fine in Poland’s More and more orders for fully emission-free vehicles come from cityscape, we can still ob- medium and small towns. And not only from abroad, but also from revolution serve the growth trend that the Polish market which currently ranks sixth in Europe in terms of keeps solidifying with every the number of already contracted battery buses. As leader of the day. This hardly comes as cluster for e-mobility, Solaris has been prepared for this technological change for years.

20 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2017 Autumn 2017 / Customer Magazine / 21 All of the recently signed contracts for the delivery of battery buses Europe speaking unanimously are proof that this new, eco-friendly era of public transport is gaining momentum. Solaris Bus & Coach has been setting trends in this respect for years, among others by launching zero-emission vehicles There is no doubt that the future very consciously and have already buses after a favourable experience on the domestic market. New contracts are the best evidence of the belongs to vehicles powered with decided to delineate clear, fixed with the 8.9-meter Solaris buses effectiveness of such measures. This path set out together with others alternative fuels which, compared legal frames that will determine the in tests held in that city at the will surely bring about changes that will enable to create a much to the (hitherto) traditional diesels, rules of purchasing buses (we wrote beginning of the year. Both vehicles better and user-friendly city infrastructure. The near future will show create no emissions at the place of about it in our Client Magazine shall be equipped with 160 kWh how big those changes shall be. For the moment being, vehicles with use and, thanks to the innovative / spring 2017 edition). Highly Solaris High Energy batteries. The solutions applied in them, are also promising declarations follow these energy storage will be charged with conventional diesel engines still constitute the majority of buses unusually quiet, which increases the dreams. France, where carriers the aid of an 80 kW charger the registered every year in Europe. However, this is changing fast. Over comfort of operating these vehicles speak in one voice, is an excellent supply of which is also covered by the next years, Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. plans to radically change in urban space. But investments in example of such measures. the contract concluded by Solaris. the proportions though, by adjusting its factory so as to ensure that battery buses may also be spurred Evidence to this thesis is an order These will be the first electric emission-free vehicles constitute at least half of the factory output. by additional restrictions imposed made by a French carrier for two Solaris buses in France, thanks to on diesel vehicles in city centres. electric Solaris Urbino 8,9 LE, to roll which it will become the eighth However, EU funds available under out on the streets of Frontignan, country in Europe to feature the the Operational Infrastructure at the southern coast of France. most ecological and technologic- and Environment Programme are Two completely emission-free and ally advanced products of the also subject to significant changes noiseless buses shall be supplied Bolechowo-based manufacturer. which will surely cause a growth of to Frontignan mid-December this interest in electric vehicles. Many year. The French carrier Thau Agglo states are already treating the issue has also decided to buy electric

Fuel costs

1,02 billion PLN*

Annual cost of the purchase The same sum would be of fuel for all city buses enough to build wind power driving in Poland** plants generating a total of 144 MW of power, which could * 1 PLN = 0.23 EUR. ** Simulation for 11,376 city buses in cover the annual demand for Poland, assuming an average annual electric power of 3,973 electric mileage of 60,000 km and diesel buses consumption of Diesel 44.85 litres/100 km.

Vibrations and noise Out of concern for the health and safety of drivers and passengers alike, Solaris strives to minimise emissions of both noise and vibrations inside and outside its buses. This is particularly successful with electric buses and their characteristic lower noise emissions and vibration levels compared to buses with conventional combustion engines. These days, vehicles with alternative drives make up 25% of the production in Środa Wielkopolska and Bolechowo. It is expected that over the next several years the share of this type 76% o 28% o 16% of drive will rise to 50%. reduction of vibration in the lower noise level in the back of lower noise level generated by an driver’s seat on an electric bus, an electric bus compared to a bus electric bus when moving away compared to a bus with a petrol with a combustion engine from a stop compared to a bus or diesel engine with a combustion engine

22 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2017 Autumn 2017 / Customer Magazine / 23 Tampere Västerås 2000 Oslo E-mobilno  buses with electric Riga powertrains Landskrona (including buses in production) Gdynia

Hamburg Inowrocław Ostrołęka The map shows zero-emission buses as well as trolleybuses with Warszawa batteries allowing the vehicles the autonomous drive. Hannover Berlin OstrwO Lublin Braunschweig Wrzeniai WWlkp Sosnowiec Oberhausenn Dresden JaworznoJ Bruxelles Krakw Sollingen Ostrava Düsseldorf PPlzeň TřinecT Nürnberg GERMANY Esslingen Salzburg German operators of buses may with German carriers for the supply the first fully electric buses to drive Klagenfurt boast owning a substantial number of electric buses. The first contract in those localities. The contracts of electric buses, currently going was concluded with Nuremberg- stipulate that the towns test Cluj-Napoca into 130. In this way, Poland’s based operator VAG Verkehrs- innovative solutions of the near- Bergamo western neighbour, similarly, ranks Aktiengesellschaft, and a nearly Poznań-based producer and they Milano fifth in Europe in this regard. Solaris identical battery vehicle was are to acquaint inhabitants with is also actively participating in the ordered by the company Infra Fürth vehicles powered with alternative electrification of the bus fleet in Verkehr GmbH from the nearby town fuels, currently widely used in Frontignan that country - only over the last few of Fürth. The buses will appear in municipal transport. weeks the bus manufacturer has the respective cities before the end signed new additional contracts of 2017. In both cases they will be Roma Barcelona

NORWAY Cagliari Castelln de la Plana Solaris has also started with its of that country. That is because it of electromobility and it is planning conquest of the North of Europe, already uses buses fuelled with to introduce new electric buses thanks to starting collaboration hydrogen, biogas, biodiesel and gradually in the near future. with one of the biggest Norwegian also hybrid vehicles. The new Municipal authorities assume that public transport operators which Solaris Urbino electrics will be the about 100 such vehicles will cruise signed a contract for two new Urbino first battery buses to be applied by on the streets of the Norwegian POLAND 12 electric at the end of March 2017. that operator. The electric buses of capital by 2020, whereas by 2025 at 13 These are the first battery vehicles Solaris took part in test runs, held least 60% of the bus fleet is to have The Polish market, too, has seen world-wide first electric Solaris tender for the supply of battery acquired by that carrier. Unibuss by carriers in Oslo last year. Their an electric drive. a spike in interest in vehicles Alpino 8,9 LE for blood donation buses to Warsaw for Solaris. The owns a fleet of nearly 750 buses goal was to gather experience in powered with alternative fuel. This to the Regional Blood Donation twelve-metre electric buses of carrying passengers across the terms of the everyday use of battery is evidenced by the rising number and Hemotherapy Centre in the latest generation will roll out eastern part of Norway, and it is vehicles in the city. Oslo is, after of tenders for electric buses Katowice. But also declarations of the Bolechowo factory at the one of the most environmentally all, one of the world metropolises announced in Poland this year so of the municipal carrier in the end of 2018. Other cities that may sustainable transport businesses strongly investing in the promotion far. Only in the past few months capital of Poland are impressive boast having the latest electric did Solaris Bus & Coach sign on a European scale; over the next models of Solaris include Cracow new contracts for the delivery of years Warsaw-based MZA plans and Jaworzno which have bought ITALY electric buses to: Chodzież, Ostrów to buy 130 electric buses in total. 42 battery buses in total; the Wielkopolski, Sosnowiec and The city confirmed its boisterous contracts for their supply were One ought not forget about Italy an order for electric buses with 22 electric buses to two Italian cities Września. What is more, by the end announcement with its latest order signed back in 2016, during the when mentioning countries that the Bolechowo-based producer. In – Bergamo i Mediolanu. We write of July 2017, the bus manufacturer for 10 zero-emission buses of trade fair in Kielce. promote the idea of electromobili- the past weeks Solaris has secured about in more details on pages 4. from near Poznań had also signed the MAXI class. Won at the end of ty and those that have just placed orders for the supply of a total of a contract for the supply of the June, this is the second victorious

24 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2017 Autumn 2017 / Customer Magazine / 25 – Low-emission vehicles with diesel engine during stopovers and drive is that it recuperates kinetic hybrid drives are becoming to leave it in a zero-emission mode. energy during braking, following Double a more popular choice not only Furthermore customers can opt which this energy is transformed for the biggest agglomerations, for an Arrive-and-Go system which and stored as electric power in but also for smaller towns. This additionally turns off the diesel a storage facility (in the case of is of a considerable significance engine when the bus is approaching the new Solaris Urbino 12 Hybrid POWER OF HYBRIDS to actions taken for the purpose a stop. Thanks to those solutions - a supercapacitator) mounted on of environmental protection the hybrid bus of Solaris resembles the roof of the bus. The new Solaris – Mr. Palenica adds. an electric bus in functionality and Urbino 12 Hybrid is also featured on according to tests it is able to use page 18. What is more, new twelve-metre up to 20 percent less fuel than hybrids of Solaris will also begin needed by similar vehicles with operation in the cities and towns of a conventional drive. Moreover, Solaris’ new hybrid bus model presented barely a few months ago has Piła (6 buses), Pobiedziska (3 buses), the engine operates so quietly that been met with a warm reception of the market. By the end of the first Swarzędz (4 buses), Świnoujście (3 the noise level can be reduced half of 2017 the Polish bus maker managed to secure orders for 266 new buses) and Wągrowiec (2 buses). significantly, which is welcomed in Clients choosing the new model crowded city centres in particular. Solaris Urbino 12 Hybrids. are also offered the possibility to One of the main features of the install a Stop-and-Go system, which allows to completely turn off the

Showcased at last year’s IAA fair in – It is these very advantages of of Belgium, the Société Régionale and at the Transexpo in the Urbino 12 Hybrid that have Wallonne du Transport (SRWT). By Kielce, the vehicle is the result of the convinced a number of cities to the end of 2019, 208 hybrid buses company broadening its product invest in alternative drives. We may from Poland will join the operator’s range for new generation Urbinos, look at the market success of the fleet; the first ten of these will be presented for the first time in 2014. novice vehicle with satisfaction. delivered this year. However, the By choosing the serial HybriDrive 266 buses is a result that makes biggest hybrid fleet of Solaris buses of the U.S. producer BAE Systems you happy – comments Zbigniew shall be established in Kielce and the manufacturer was able to Palenica, Vice-CEO of Solaris in Tomaszów Mazowiecki - the city apply a low-capacity diesel engine charge of Sales. shall get 25 Urbino Hybrids still this (the 210 HP Cummins ISB4.5E6). year (the order for Kielce consists This eco-friendly, partially electric The company’s biggest order so far also of 10 articulated buses). drive allows to significantly cap was placed by a public transport fuel consumption and pollutant operator in the francophone part emission into the atmosphere.

Autumn 2017 / Customer Magazine / 27 Towards digitalisation

Nowadays the process of digitisation of after-sales customer service is inevitable. Solaris has started it over a decade ago. However, now the trend is gaining momentum - Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. is offering its contracted partners more and more solutions which will enable them to work more efficiently, save time and what is more, these services are connected to the in-house SAP system, making it a win-win situation for both sides.

Solaris began with the digital layout was brushed up, whereas the a global version of Magbus on notifications from beginning to notifications and how they are of spare parts or a maintenance modernisation in 2005, launching order search module was expanded foreign markets. The closest end - the app facilitates tracking settled. The eSNote and eSClaim notification - Solaris Bus & Coach Magbus - an on-line platform and detailed information on the plans of the company focus on the history of notifications and of systems do not burden the client follows global trends of digitising enabling the placement of orders status of orders for spare parts implementing the new platform malfunctions in a given vehicle, servers, since the systems and the and standardising processes and of spare parts and providing are presented clearly in the system version on the Swedish market. All including the updated status of saved resources can be accessed data. Investments in tools used access to vehicle documentation, now. Currently, the company is of this serves to facilitate contact current notifications; but it also through a web browser. by departments involved in after including catalogues of spare parts. undertaking to implement the with Solaris business partners - so allows to draft statistics and -sales services facilitate the Ever since then, the platform has Enterprise Service Bus technology, they can act faster, order easier and comparisons. What is more, it has – The aggregation of all data in work of clients, but it also been constantly in use by end- also called ESB rails; in all its buy cheaper. It is among others been integrated with pre-existing one place speeds up the execution improve communication between customers, authorised servicing subsidiaries. The service rails thanks to such solutions that the systems, which makes it possible and settlement of maintenance various organisations and yields stations and foreign subsidiaries. for the exchange of company Magbus counter of orders jumped to simply transfer notifications into notifications, as well as of warranty measurable benefits. The number of active users of the data constitute a set of tools over the 118,000 item line in 2016 warranty claims. and post-warranty claims, which, system has reached nearly 1200 enabling the transfer, provision alone. in turn, affects customer satis- people representing 444 clients on and processing of data as well The latest eSClaim system - used faction over the collaboration with all markets. as carrying out operations in Another sector of after-sales for settling costs of malfunctions Solaris and helps to build good, portals and apps based originally collaboration with company clients covered by a warranty - works on sustainable relations – notes The latest, third version of the web on different IT systems. To put it that has been made digital is the a similar basis. You log into this Mateusz Nalewajski, head of the site currently in operation is fully simply - new technology allows for reporting and servicing of vehicle system by means of a computer Warranty department in Solaris Bus integrated with SAP. This means communication between systems malfunctions. The eSNote system or any kind of mobile device. & Coach S.A. that data entered into Magbus which hitherto “spoke” in different was launched in 2015 and has Data for each warranty claim are are immediately visible in the SAP languages. ensured the quality of maintenance updated automatically, which Access to information is a key system and vice versa. The portal notification management since gives both the clients and Solaris business rule. Irrespective of was changed extensively last The consequence of these activities then. eSNote enables the on- employees constant access to whether it concerns the docu- in 2015. Back then the platform will be the gradual launch of line processing of maintenance updated information on warranty mentation of a vehicle, a catalogue

28 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2017 Autumn 2017 / Customer Magazine / 29 Solaris Logistics Center

More space, possibilities, loading and unloading ramps as well as convenience and work safety. The new seat of the Spare Parts Sales Department offers more in nearly all aspects. Here comes the Solaris Logistics Center.

The process of moving to a new office has begun in June 2017 and is spread out over several stages, so as not to interfere with the work of the warehouse. The photo was taken in July 2017. Autumn 2017 / Customer Magazine / 31 – Equally importantly, all materials shall be gathered under one roof, in one warehouse, easily accessible and within quick reach. We are saving time we previously used on passage from one hall to the other – Michał Ostachowski adds.

The move from Murowana Goślina will be divided into several stages. – Our warehouse needs to work continuously, while we move to the new office. We have to release goods ordered by customers and receive deliveries from our sub- Now, the drive from the Solaris Logistics Center to the suppliers. There is not a day to take a break. We guarantee providing nearest express road junction leading straight up to the services to carriers 24 hours a day A2 motorway, takes exactly nine minutes. This means seven days a week. That is why we the time of access to important roads connected to the have divided the move into three stages. Transports have begun in European network of motorways has been shortened June, and the whole operation is six-fold. set to end in September, without interrupting the current work flow at all. This is one of the biggest logistic challenges for our department ever – notes Nikodem Stenclik, head of Logistics and also chief organiser Constant development of vehicles (Belgium, Israel, the Netherlands, loads and courier parcels will help, of the relocation. In order to better in terms of both sales and Morocco, Turkey), paired with the too. – As a result, we will be able to understand the venture I shall technology compels the producer concurrent maintenance of two serve much more vehicles than up name a few figures. We have to to consistently adjust its after-sales generations of Urbinos and the until now, without having to change transfer about 26,000 commodity services. The increasing fleets of ever-growing number of electric the staff number. The increase in items of various kinds. Starting Solaris buses in all of Europe and vehicles with the green dachshund efficiency will be clearly noticeable with the electric equipment and beyond, as well as the fast-growing logo. An answer was needed fast to – says Michał Ostachowski, deputy ending with a whole tram “front”. number of buses with electric all those challenges. “Speed” is the Director for Spare Parts. We will transport a total of 7400 drives pose new challenges to the key word here - because time is of windscreens alone. It was crucial company, among others to the Spare the essence in after-sales service. Nearly everything will get changed. to make operational and process- Parts Sales Department. In order Now measuring 6000 square me- related preparations; these have to ensure further development Now the drive from the Solaris ters, the warehouse accommodates been under way since March. Our opportunities and concerned Logistics Center to the nearest pallet racking with room for goal is to ensure that customers do with maximum customer service express road junction leading 3000 items and 100 windscreen not feel the effects of the relocation, efficiency in the next few years, straight up to the A2 motorway, takes racks. The three-level mezzanine even though they know about it the company decided to create the exactly nine minutes. This means allows for the relocation of goods – Nikodem Stenclik remarks further. Solaris Logistics Center in Jasin (on the time of access to important according to rotation schemes and the eastern outskirts of Poznań). roads connected to the European the highest storing level will reach Even though the space we use has network of motorways has been 9.2 metres (previously 4.8 metres). grown, paradoxically, the cost of its The current seat in Murowana shortened six-fold. Thus goods The goods to be assembled will be maintenance will be smaller than Goślina is certainly a repository and materials will make it much conveyed from the shelves using before. The warehouse halls have of nostalgia and colourful tales; faster to the Solaris headquarters. special conveyor belts straying to been fitted with energy-saving however with each passing day This is quite an asset when time picking stations where they will be motion-controlled LED lighting, it was less and less of a modern is a competitive advantage. Five checked, packed and prepared for whereas the buildings are double- logistics center able to handle loading and unloading docks will dispatch. It is yet another novelty insulated, which ensures that the a growing number of Solaris further reduce the time hitherto improving the everyday work of temperature inside is stable all year clients and their fleets. Challenges needed to service dispatched warehouse workers. around, irrespective of weather have been multiplying over the and received transports. Another conditions outside. At the same past years: new markets to serve separate gate for receiving oversize time the innovative.

32 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2017 Autumn 2017 / Customer Magazine / 33 The “Green Dachshund Foundation - for the rescue of the defenceless” was created by Solange Olszewska in 2012. Its statutory goals include: supporting educational initiative promoting health and aimed at improving road transport safety, participating in aid programmes addressed to children and youths, popularising the idea of animal rights protection, promoting the concept of voluntary service, by engaging employees and external organisations.

Solaris cares for the disabled

both Solaris employees and improving road transport safety, disability is and how types of muscle Founded by Solange Olszewska, Fundacja Zielony Jamnik – the Green members of the association Jedna both of which our foundation is paralysis may vary; it is enough to Dachshund Foundation has, in cooperation with the association Jedna Chwila participated in that event. endorsing. create a real opportunity to ease Constructors and employees of the their integration and their everyday Chwila (One Moment), organised an unusual training workshop for Technical Office had the opportunity Krzysztof Stern, workshop leader life, and to make engineers aware constructors and engineers working for Solaris, during which the to acquaint themselves directly and also CEO of the foundation of the many nuances one does not participants were acquainted with problems of disabled passengers using with the perspective of people Jedna Chwila, is himself the victim usually take into consideration. afflicted by various handicaps. They of a traffic accident that happened public transport vehicles. In compliance with the firm’s idea, mass public tried to get on the bus while moving seven years ago and as a result The meeting, attended by em- transport should be equally accessible to all its users. Even though Solaris on wheelchairs, so as to even of which he became wheelchair- ployees of the Technical Office, the better comprehend what kinds of bound. Everyday life from the Type-Approval Department and has over 20 years of experience in building low-floor buses, it is constantly barriers turn up in means of public perspective of a wheelchair Project Managers was organised pursuing the improvement of solutions, so as to make it possible for transport and what elements of the has changed his attitude and as part of the co-operation with everybody to use municipal transport. bus furnishing significantly aid the viewpoints, and has motivated the “Green Dachshund Foundation passenger in this seemingly prosaic him to undertake intense efforts - for the rescue of the defenceless task. towards the integration of disabled – established by Solange Olszewska, people with able people and CEO of Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. – Every year the number of whe- towards the mobilisation of these elchair-bound people in Poland people in an urban environment. The first low-floor bus produced in to raise awareness that such which disabled people encounter increases by 1000. We are trying Bolechowo rolled out of the fac- facilitations are not simply a whim, when using public transport. The hard to sensitize the society to their – It took me two years after the tory in 1996. It seems that today but a real necessity. participants discussed among needs and requirements – noted accident to realise that I should not - with an experience that arose from others needs of passengers doctor Alicja Malewicz-Pełczyńska, feel restricted in any way and now the construction of 15,000 vehicles Held in the Solaris headquarters resulting from particular degrees a member of the Board of the I am trying to instil that thought - we may speak with even greater in Bolechowo-Osiedle, the training of disability, as well as various Green Dachshund Foundation. in others – Krzysztof Stern said. certainty about understanding was divided into two modules. types of wheelchair. The practical – Our co-operation with the – Sometimes it is enough for a non- the needs of disabled people. The theoretical part consisted workshop in the production hall association Jedna Chwila is in disabled person to try and imagine, The workshop conducted by the of a multimedia presentation constituted a particularly valuable line with educational initiatives in practice, how different the association Jedna Chwila helped reviewing example situations part of the workshop meeting; promoting health and aimed at perspective of a person afflicted by

34 / Customer Magazine / Autumn 2017 Autumn 2017 / Customer Magazine / 35 Stay Green at Every Red Light ! The New DIWA.6 Stop-Start Technology

The Stop-Start technology of the DIWA.6 transmission is designed to make stops more economical and environmentally friendly: The switching off allows for a reduction of the vehicle’s fuel consumption by up to 10 -12 % and helps to lower emissions. Public transit buses that are equipped with the Voith Stop-Start technology are successfully proving their efficiency and reliability every day.

Experience the Stop-Start technology from Voith at the Busworld Europe, hall 5, booth 513.