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Customer Magazine Spring 1/2017 (18) www.solarisbus.com On Roman holiday with InterUrbino Anniversary year page 10 brings Solaris a “Bus of the Year 2017” Supersize Solaris award page 24 page 14 ISSN 1689-6076 In this issue: As an introducion 10/13 On Roman holiday with InterUrbino The first of the Solaris’ InterUrbino 12 buses for carrier Cotral left the gates of the factory near Poznań mid-October 2016. By now, Solaris has delivered a total of 68 vehicles, in mid-March there will be exactly one hundred of them. 14/17 Anniversary year brings Solaris a “Bus of the Year 2017” award Dear Readers, Solaris may safely call its 20th anniversary a success in many ways. Marking the 20th jubilee of our contracts, starting with an order Trollino trolleybus. Our Research The firm generated solid sales, successfully launched new vehicle business, this past year was full of from Belgium for 208 hybrid & Development department is models on the market and received the “Bus of the Year 2017” new and valuable experience. It was buses. The production plans seem also busy working on a trolleybus award for the new Solaris Urbino 12 electric. a good year both in terms of sold exceedingly optimistic. We must version with batteries and an vehicles, as well as new additions not, of course, rest on our laurels, additional hydrogen fuel cell. The to our portfolio of models. We because the situation on the latter vehicle will also be the first are extremely proud of the “Bus European bus market is extremely of its kind in Europe. 24/27 of the Year 2017” award for our dynamic. That is why we constantly electric bus. It is a clear proof of work to improve our effectiveness The next months will bring forward Supersize Solaris international recognition of the and raise the technical quality of many challenges, but it is these level of technological progress of our products. challenges, after all, which motivate The biggest of all vehicles ever built by Solaris has been presented our battery-driven vehicles. The us to work better, to design and in Leipzig. The 37.63-meter tram in question was dubbed XL in Solaris team is convinced that This year we plan to launch two produce even more state-of- short, but nonetheless to the point and tellingly, by operator LVB. these vehicles are the future of premieres. Both vehicles boast the-art public transport vehicles, public transport in cities. an electric drive. The first one benefiting us all. will be a battery bus – the new This year has kicked off positively, articulated Solaris Urbino. The other 04/08 News as we have landed several large novelty will be the new-generation 18/19 Interview with Tom Terjesen 20/23 Together towards e-mobility 28/31 A second life of buses My warmest regards and enjoy the latest edition of our “Customer Magazine” 32/35 In one Common Direction – new marketing communication strategy of Solaris Publisher: Solaris Bus & Coach S.A., Obornicka 46, Bolechowo-Osiedle, 62-005 Owińska, Poland, tel.: +48 61 6672 333, Solange Olszewska fax: +48 61 6672 345, e-mail: [email protected], www.solarisbus.com CEO Editorial team: Agata Krzemkowska, Mateusz Figaszewski, Marcin Napierała, Katarzyna Konieczna, Maciej Sankowski, Alicja Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. Malewicz-Pełczyńska, Tomasz Pyzałka Photography: Solaris Bus & Coach S.A., Jean-Philippe Glatigny, Michał Jaworski, Grzegorz Muszyński, LVB, Leszek Peczyński Layout, realisation: Weave Studio Dominika Banaszak Solaris is ambassador of the „Polish Industry Brand” program led by the Polish Ministry of Development. 2 / Customer Magazine / Spring 2017 Spring 2017 / Customer Magazine / 3 Solaris wins First production models huge contract in Belgium of the new Solaris Urbino 10,5 purchased The total of 208 hybrid The 2016 MIDI class premiere Both of the units comply with the 6 available from low floor. The busses will be delivered by – the new Solaris Urbino 10,5 strict Euro 6 standards. The Lienz common feature of all 10,5’s is the Solaris to the largest public – has been purchased by buses would use a 1-2-0 door feeling of comfort for its passengers transport company in the two European carriers. The configuration and offer 26 seated delivered by, for example, ecological francophone part of Belgium, first being Austrian Postbus places, including 10 available LED interior lightening, sufficient Société Régionale Wallonne du the other, Komorniki Public from low floor. Komorniki’s bus air conditioning and ticketing Transport (SRWT). The value of Transport (PUK Komorniki characterizes with 2-2-0 door machines. framework agreement totals Sp. z o.o.) based in Greater system and seats 23 people, almost 105 million euro. Poland. This is Solaris’s biggest success The 10,5 meter bus has first been on the Belgian market so far. introduced to the public during Solaris Urbino 12 Hybrid vehicles remaining buses will be purchased vehicles with diesel-electric drives the last year’s Kielce Transexpo purchased by SRWT will be used in the first quarter of 2018 with will be able to cover parts of their trade show. What is important for by two operators: TEC Hainaut delivery dates spread over the routes in the entirely emission-free customers, the new model uses the and TEC Liege-Verviers. Under the period 2018-2019. mode. very same elements of side panels framework agreement for delivery as in the 12 meter type. of the total of 208 vehicles, Solaris Solaris hybrid vehicles purchased The investment in the development has received so far confirmation by SRWT are to be equipped with of hybrid vehicle fleet forms an In Austrian Postbus Lienz model, of the order for 97 vehicles. Ten BAE Systems units. Owing to the element of TEC Group strategy the producer used an 240 kW DAF/ of them will be delivered as early application of an energy storage oriented at reducing CO2 emissions PACCAR MX-11 engine, the Polish as in September this year. The 111 system in the form of supercaps, in the Walloon Region. carrier buses will use a 186 kW Cummins ISB6.7 250B engines. Urbino electric to open emission-free line in Tampere Another ”trailer bus” rolls out on streets of Munich In winter vibe, Finland’s The fully emission-free Solaris depot. The innovative equipment Tampere has welcomed its first buses bought by TKL are equipped of the vehicle, its environmental- electric buses from Solaris. with 75 kWh High Power batteries. friendly and extraordinarily quiet Four Urbino 12 electric ordered The power in those can be engine were appreciated by the Private carrier Autobus can be regulated, by coupling or out on the streets of Munich. Later by the municipal operator recharged by a pantograph as jury members of the prestigious Oberbayern has purchased decoupling the trailer, depending on this year, another twelve new (TKL) begun regular service in well as via traditional plug-in Bus Euro Test which announced the a new Urbino 12 capable of on current transport needs. The Urbino 12 with passenger trailers December, inaugurating the connectors used to recharge the new Urbino 12 electric the Bus of pulling a passenger trailer transport concept itself has been are to join the public transport emission-free no. 2 line in the batteries overnight in the bus the Year 2017. made by Hess. The vehicle approved earlier, among others in system. city. will be used in municipal Munich, and the capital of Bavaria transport organised by public is the first German metropolis Solaris signed the contract for the transport operator Münchner which for years has been using the supply of four electric buses with Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG). irrefutable benefits of the trailer the public transport operator in bus. Tampere (TKL) on 23 December 2015. Rolling onto Tampere streets exactly The new 12-metre Solaris, and the Solaris handed over ten vehicles one year later, new Urbino electric passenger trailer of Hess it will of this type to German carrier festively opened the very first be hooked up to, will jointly form Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft In the picture from the left: Christian emission-free bus line in Tampere. a 23-metre trailer bus. With the (MVG) back in 2013. The vehicle Gschwendtner (AGK Bus und Truck GmbH Bayern), Alexander Schmidt (Solaris Bus & This way this Southern Finnish city help of this particular solution the earmarked for Autobus Oberbayern Coach), Daniel Sonntag (Autobus Oberbayern started to promote e-mobility. transport capacity of the vehicle is the eleventh trailer bus to roll GmbH) 4 / Customer Magazine / Spring 2017 Spring 2017 / Customer Magazine / 5 Cracow orders 77 articulated Urbino buses Bus driving lessons in Urbino One of the cities visited most buses to Cracow. That is because start carrying passengers around At the end of 2016 Solaris by tourists in Poland, Cracow, it means that in the middle of next mid-2017. They will be the first delivered 12 modern and is also a leader in terms of year Cracow citizens will gain more Solaris articulated vehicles of the economical articulated buses investments in environmental- modern and comfortable public new generation in this city; more to the local transport friendly public transport. transport vehicles. If we were to Euro 6 standard meeting vehicles provider in Leipzig – Leipziger The municipal carrier’s fleet sum up all orders placed by MPK in will be added to MPK’s fleet, too. Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH (LVB). includes both buses 2016 and 2017, we would soon notice Apart from buses with conventional On 6th February, the buses meeting the Euro 6 that the city has bought nearly 200 drives, Cracow will also receive 20 were joined by another two standard, as well as brand new, environmental-friendly electric buses – battery Urbino Urbinos, designed to teach and hybrid and electric buses in a very short time span.