& coach s.a. type public industry automotive industry founded 2001 headquarters bolechowo poland area served worldwide key people solange olszewska krzysztof olszewski products buses revenue 292.2 million operating income 20.6 million profit 13.5 million total assets 126.1 million total equity 87.6 million number of employees 1562 website www.solarisbus.com solaris bus & coach s.a. is a polish multinational bus coach trolleybus and tram manufacturer based in bolechowo near pozna poland . 1 it is a family owned business with krzysztof olszewski as co owner and his wife solange as ceo . contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 current models 2.2 discontinued models 3 gallery 4 see also 5 references history edit solaris started as neoplan polska founded in 1994 by krzysztof olszewski . neoplan polska was selling and since january 1996 also building under german licence low floor neoplan city buses . in 1999 it released first buses under its own solaris brand model urbino . on 1 september 2001 neoplan polska was renamed to solaris bus & coach sp . z o.o. in 2005 it was transformed into a joint stock company . in the 1990s the company developed its own research office and used computer software originally developed for the design of space shuttles . it reduced the time needed to design and build new prototypes to about six months . citation needed another six months are needed to build a new bus prototype . trolleybuses are made in co operation with the hungarian company ganz electro or the czech division of the company cegelec and polish company medcom . both companies make the electric devices for the vehicles . solaris produced the first european bus model using hybrid technology citation needed the solaris urbino 18 hybrid . that hybrid model was delivered in november 2008 to the polish city of pozna . in 2007 solaris was employing about 1 200 workers in 2009 about 1 600 workers . now solaris bus & coach builds about 1 000 1 200 buses a year . citation needed in 2014 solaris sold 1 380 buses and trams . 280 went to poland 197 to germany with other important markets being bulgaria the czech republic italy and turkey . it was another record year in sales for the company . 2 products edit solaris interurbino 12 in kielce poland current models edit solaris alpino low floor city bus solaris alpino 8 9 le solaris urbino 8 9 le electric solaris urbino low floor city bus series in lengths of 10m 12m 15m three axle rigid 18m or 18.75 m articulated solaris urbino 9 now discontinued solaris urbino 10 solaris urbino 12 solaris urbino 15 solaris urbino 15 le solaris urbino 18 solaris urbino 18 hybrid family of hybrid powered city buses solaris interurbino 12 intercity bus coach 3 solaris vacanza 12 coach solaris vacanza 13 coach solaris trollino low floor trolleybus in lengths of 12m 15m three axle rigid or 18m articulated solaris tramino tram introduced in 2009 2010 4 5 discontinued models edit solaris valletta city bus gallery edit city buses solaris urbino 12 in chur switzerland driver s area of solaris urbino 12 interior of solaris urbino 12 engine of solaris urbino 12 a solaris urbino 18 of rsv reutlingen germany solaris urbino 10 at warsaw ok cie airport poland special construction of an urbino 10 9 in karlsruhe trolleybuses a solaris trollino 12 trolleybus in landskrona sweden solaris trollino 18ac in tallinn in estonia solaris trollino 15 in vilnius in lithuania solaris trollino 18 metrostyle in salzburg intercity buses and coaches solaris valletta in kielce poland transexpo 2007 solaris interurbino 12 at transexpo 2010 solaris interurbino 12 interior a solaris vacanza 13 2005 trams solaris tramino lf 32 in pozna scale model of a solaris tramino in kielce poland at transexpo 2008 interior of solaris tramino lf 32 solaris tramino s109j for jena germany see also edit electric bus electric vehicle conversion hispano carrocera autosan wikimedia commons has media related to solaris vehicles . references edit premiery transexpo 2011 solaris i elektrobus infobus 22 september 2011 retrieved 7 november 2014 another record year for solaris bus & coach 5 february 2015 retrieved 5 february 2015 kierecki aleksander 21 july 2009 interurbino mi dzymiastowa propozycja solarisa infobus retrieved 7 november 2014 trako 2009 debiut tramino solarisa rynek kolejowy 14 october 2009 retrieved 7 november 2014 ko odziej jacek nowe krakowskie tramwaje wiat kolei magazine emi press 5 2006 p. 8 issn 1234 5962 solaris official website v t e automotive industry in poland vehicle companies active amz kutno arrinera automet autosan dzt honker ex fsc jelcz melex solaris solbus ursus defunct as cws fsm fso fsr k. rudzki i s ka ralf stetysz lrl pzin star wsk mielec mikrus zsd active joint ventures fiat auto poland ex fsm gm manufacturing poland ex opel polska irisbus iveco kapena man bus man trucks ex star scania production s upsk volkswagen pozna ex fsr volvo polska buses defunct joint ventures daewoo motor poland ex fsc daewoo fso intrall polska ex fsc leopard automobile neoplan polska polski fiat other pozna motor show automotive industry economy of poland transport in poland retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title solaris bus % 26 coach & oldid 728972014 categories solaris bus & coachbus manufacturershybrid electric bus manufacturerselectric bus manufacturersmotor vehicle manufacturers of polandtrolleybus manufacturersscience and technology in polandtram manufacturerscompanies established in 2001polish brandshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from february 2014commons category with local link different than on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact 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