Giga Solaris Orders For Rome! A Total Of 354 Buses!

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A couple of months in the past, our firm received tender in Rome for supply of 110 gentle hybrid buses. In latest days, Solaris has received the order for the supply of 244 CNG buses for the ATAC provider in Rome. With the utmost use of choices by the ordering get together, each contracts with upkeep companies will attain a worth of as much as EUR 200 million.

In latest months, Solaris has introduced the most advantageous provide in the tender for the provision of 110 articulated gentle hybrid automobiles. The tender process was carried out by the Gubielo Spa buying group for the provider ATAC Roma. The provide of Solaris Urbino 18 outfitted with the newest technology gentle hybrid methods has obtained the highest ranking and, as a results of successful the proceedings, in 2024 the producer will ship 110 new hybrid automobiles to the streets of Rome.

In final days, Gubielo Spa and ATAC Roma additionally positioned an order for buses powered by compressed pure fuel, often known as a CNG (compressed pure fuel) in the business. And right here the provide of Solaris with a twelve-meter model of Urbino CNG turned out to be essentially the most advantageous. As a outcome, 244 Solaris Urbino 12 CNG buses powered by pure fuel may even be delivered to the Italian capitol metropolis in 2024 and 2025. What’s extra, the order for fuel carriers assumes the so-called choice, i.e. the chance of growing the variety of automobiles by one other 78 items. The contracting authority might resolve on this in the next months.

Along with the supply of the above-mentioned buses, Solaris may even service them for the following 10 years. The whole worth of the bought automobiles and all extra companies, assuming that the contracting authority makes use of all choices, will due to this fact quantity up to  EUR 200 million. That is one among the most important contracts in the corporate’s historical past.

The ordered buses won’t be the first Solaris automobiles in Rome. In the years 2003-2004 Solaris delivered 30 trolleybuses to ATAC. In addition, operators from Lazio area use greater than 700 Solaris InterUrbino intercity automobiles for regional transport in the suburbs of Rome.

In whole, Solaris has delivered over 1800 automobiles to Italy, which is one among the corporate’s key markets