Solaris with record-high sales

Bus producer Solaris Bus & Coach sold 1,397 buses and trolleys with PLN 1.85 billion in revenue, setting a new company’s record. “For the 15th time in a row, the company took first place in the segment of low-floor city buses with a market share of 51 percent,” the company said. Exports in 2017 accounted for nearly 70 percent of the company's total sales. “In 2017, we released the new version of our electric Urbino 18 bus, as well as the articulated version of the Solaris Trollino 18 trolley. Both models have already found their first buyers in Poland, Belgium, and Slovakia. This year, we plan to launch three vehicles. The first is the new Solaris Trollino 24. It will be a two-hinged vehicle with a length of 24 meters. At the beginning, it will be built in a trolleybus version, but it will ultimately be a platform for double-hinged electric and hybrid buses. The next two releases planned for this year are the new Solaris Urbino 12 with a hydrogen fuel cell and the low-input new Solaris Urbino 12 LE aimed at low operating costs. The working name of this model is 'Lite'. The premieres of these vehicles are planned for the second half of the year,” said Deputy President Dariusz Michalak. At present, Solaris orders backlog includes some 1,400 vehicles.