December 16 (SeeNews) - Solaris Bus & Coach, a unit of Spain's Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF), said on Wednesday it won a 17.5 million lei ($4.4 million/ 3.6 million euro) tender for a contract to deliver ten hybrid buses to Romanian municipality of Reghin by the end of March 2022.
This will be Solaris' first delivery of hybrid buses to Reghin, the company said in a press release.
The ordered Urbino 12 type Solaris buses feature a hybrid propulsion system consisting of a 120 kW traction engine and a 151 kW diesel engine that meets Euro 6 emission standards. The vehicles can carry up to 90 passengers.
Solaris said last month that next year it would deliver 16 electric buses to the city of Craiova, twenty trolleybuses to Ploiesti, six hybrid buses to Satu Mare, three trolleybuses to Medias and twenty hybrid buses to Galati. Solaris has delivered 37 vehicles to the Romanian cities of Brasov and Satu Mare so far this year.
CAF is a manufacturer of rolling stock and railway equipment listed on the Spanish stock market. The company is headquartered in Beasain, in the Basque Autonomous Community, and has factories in Spain, France, the UK, Brazil, Mexico and the U.S.
(1 euro=4.8684 lei)