Solaris, Medcom to invest PLN 100 million in new electric bus system

Poland’s leading bus manufacturer, Solaris, and power systems producer Medcom will partner with several Polish universities and e-mobility cluster companies to build and operate the country’s first urban electric bus system, Medcom announced in a press release on Tuesday.  According to the report, the investment will include the design of a fleet of city buses, the management of the energy system – including energy storage and battery charging systems – and training engineers in e-mobility. The project will be Polish-constructed and will use technical solutions developed alongside the University of Mining and Metallurgy in Kraków, Poznań University of Technology and Warsaw University of Technology, among other participants. The vice president of Medcom, Piotr Wrońsk, said, “I am convinced that the development of [this electric bus system] could also become a Polish export commodity…we have the appropriate resources and support from the government. Medcom now has its own technology and copyright solutions for eBusów, which is used by vehicle-producers all over the world. We are able to meet the full needs of the Polish market on the production side.” Solaris vice president Dariusz Michalak added that his company has been involved in electromobility since 2001, having developed trolley buses during that year. Solaris built its first electric bus in 2011.