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17 Solaris e-buses to join public transport fleet in Grudzi?dz, Poland; 25% of fleet electric

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dz, Poland signed a contract for the delivery of 17 Solaris electric buses. The city will have at its disposal 9 depot chargers and 5 chargers with an inverted pantograph installed at the charging station and lowered onto the bus. Poland is an extremely important market for the bus maker when it comes to sales of its electric buses.

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Solaris delivers electric school bus; Kangaroo program

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boszów in Poland. The purchase of the eco-friendly vehicle was subsidized by the NFO?iGW The “Kangaroo” program is a fund established under the aegis of the Green Investment Scheme, which provides numerous Polish cities and towns with funding to purchase electric school buses. Financial support from the NFO?iGW

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Solaris completes delivery of 20 more electric buses for MPK Kraków

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Solaris has fulfilled another contract for the delivery of electric buses to MPK Kraków, Poland, comprising 20 units of the Urbino electric, including 13 twelve-meter vehicles, and 7 articulated vehicles. For almost 10 years, we have been continuously investing in the purchase of zero-emission buses.

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Cracow signs $40M order for 50 Solaris electric buses

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Cracow, Poland public transport operator Miejskie Przedsi?biorstwo MPK) has signed a contract for the purchase of 50 Solaris Urbino 18 electric buses. The ramps will be installed at the second door. biorstwo Komunikacyjne S.A. The new buses will service four bus lines running through the Three Bards’ Avenues (Juliusz S?owacki

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Tesla employee train at Giga Berlin to add route starting in April

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“There is no indication that there could be connections to restrictions in rail transport to Poland.” It’s also free for both workers and regular citizens to use, according to Tesla, and the company paid for the project’s installation. which will arrive at the Tesla South site 5:41 a.m.,”

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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants to source electricity from German wind farms

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Mercedes-Benz Cars has entered into a power purchase agreement with Statkraft, Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy, enabling Mercedes-Benz Cars to source electricity directly from wind farms in Germany, whose subsidies from the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) expire after 2020. In total, this corresponds to an installed capacity of 4.5

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Frost & Sullivan forecasts rapid growth in tire pressure monitoring systems market; $386.6M by 2018

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Laws mandating the installation of tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) in new vehicles are leading to a swift increase in the installed base of this technology in the European Union (EU) and the United States. This installed base is forecast to grow to 36.7 new analysis from Frost & Sullivan. In 2011, only about 2.3%

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