CZECH REPUBLIC: Škoda Electric and SOR are to supply 10 32Tr battery trolleybuses to Opava. The contract signed on January 9 is worth KC135·5m excluding VAT.
Deliveries are due in September. The vehicles will be based on SOR’s NS 12 model. The vehicles will be equipped with 42·1 kWh lithium-titanate-oxide batteries, which would be charged from overhead wires. A 1 min charge would allow up to 8 km of off-wire running.
CZECH REPUBLIC: Škoda Electric has won a KC150m contract to supply 15 trolleybuses to Pardubice, the manufacturer announced on October 31.
CZECH REPUBLIC: Škoda Electric is to supply nine of its 30 Tr trolleybuses to Hradec Králové, the manufacturer announced on October 19.
CZECH REPUBLIC: Testing of electric bus charging infrastructure in Praha began on October 10. A 1 km section of overhead line has been installed on Prosecká Street as part of the EU’s Electrification of Public Transport in Cities (ELIPTIC) research project.
