Rotala places £3.6m order with Optare

Posted on 7 Mar 2011 by The Manufacturer

An order for 20 buses valued at £3.6m has been placed with Optare by Midlands-based publicly listed transport group, Rotala.

The order is for 15 Versa hybrids, acquired with a contribution of £1.7m from the Government’s Green Bus Fund, three Solo SRs and two Versas, which are diesel only. All the buses use Mercedes-Benz diesel engines and in the hybrids the engine is combined with the Siemens/Bluways hybrid system using ultra-capacitors. All of the new…

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