The CAF Group has just been awarded two new contracts for the supply of low and zero emission buses in Spain and Germany. One contract is for the supply of 87 hybrid vehicles to Barcelona from the end of this year onwards, while the other covers the delivery of 30 electric buses to the city of Dortmund in Germany. The total value of both contracts amounts to approximately €60 million.

Unibuss AS, one of Norway's largest transport operators, has once again placed its trust in CAF Group with a contract to supply 183 Urbino 18 electric buses to Oslo. This contract is testament to the Norwegian capital city's commitment to electrifying the city's public transport system, following a call for tenders which received bids from leading companies in the sector.

The company Opérateur de Transport de Wallonie (OTW), the public transport operator of the Francophone zone in Belgium has selected the CAF Group, through its subsidiary Solaris, to supply 161 Urbino 12 hybrid buses and their maintenance for a term of 8 years. The buses are scheduled to be delivered over the course of 2022, with the contract exceeding a value of €75m.

The CAF Group has secured new contracts to supply electric buses in Europe. Namely, it will supply 14 24-metre units for the Danish city of Aalborg, 30 electric units for the Italian city of Genoa and 24 units for Barcelona These contracts amount to a value of approximately 45 million euros.

CAF, through the Group's subsidiary Solaris, has concluded contracts to supply electric buses to Denmark, and natural gas vehicles for the cities of Tallinn in Estonia and Valladolid in Spain. The total of the three aforementioned contracts amounts to approximately €70 million.

The urban operator Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) has awarded the CAF Group subsidiary a contract to supply 30 Urbino 12 hybrid buses to expand the fleet of vehicles operating in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (by AMB) and adding to the almost one hundred Solaris buses currently in operation in Barcelona and its surrounding areas.

Featuring cutting-edge technology for zero emission transport, Solaris' hydrogen buses are winning the European market over. In this specific case, the German operator In-der-City-Bus, which manages Frankfurt's public transport system, has decided to purchase 13 Urbino 12 hydrogen buses, scheduled for delivery in 2022.

Hamburger Hochbahn, one of the largest public transport operators in Germany, issued a tender this year for the supply of 530 twelve and eighteen metre-long (articulated) electric buses. In August, three candidate manufacturers were selected, one of these being the CAF Group subsidiary. The framework agreement establishes tranche orders for the vehicles over the next 5 years until completing the delivery of the aforementioned total of 530 vehicles.

Over the past few weeks, Solaris has secured three new contracts in Europe worth a combined total of over EUR 30 million electric bus and trolley bus supplies.