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The company’s strategy, aligned with the energy transition and sustainability has been essential for Irizar e-mobility to increase its activity by 50%. This has been achieved through customer proximity and with the firm objective of contributing to the reactivation of the public transport sector.

Leaders in France

Irizar e-mobility is the leader in electric buses, with more than a 40% share of buses registered in France and its expansion throughout the country is increasing.

Far from experiencing a halt, Irizar e-mobility has continued to advance, strengthen and consolidate the brand, expanding the sales and after-sales network, based on the unwavering commitment to the creation of wealth and employment at local level. It currently has a workforce of more than 300 people, combining talent, youth and experience and the forecasts point to new recruitments, proportional to the growing demand for projects that we are receiving.

The company has become a benchmark in the sector due to the growing number of electric vehicles now operating in the main cities of a dozen European countries, because of its customer proximity and loyalty and because customers trust in the innovative DNA and technology of the Irizar Group. And Irizar continues to support and provide bespoke solutions for customers in different European cities. Paris. In July 2021, Irizar e-mobility signed a framework agreement with the RATP (la Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens) for the supply of 113 zero emissions electric buses in the city of Paris. It is one of the largest electric bus purchasing projects in Europe.

Strasbourg, Orleans and Marseilles will be the next destinations in France. The Marseilles RTM is once again putting its trust in Irizar after commissioning its first fully electric line in 2016 with six of the company’s units.

Consolidation in Europe

Our electromobility solutions are expanding throughout Europe and being used in new countries such as Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, among others.

Zaragoza will take on 68 ie tram electric buses to electrify the lines of its city, in addition to which Barcelona and Madrid have placed orders for additional units, thus endorsing the reliability of the buses which have been used in these cities since 2014 and 2016 respectively.

The Italian operator AMT Genoa has had 14 zero-emission electric buses , since the end of 2020.

Irizar buses are also bound for Burgas and Stara Zagora in Bulgaria, a country in which the company is consolidating its position. The first 18 metre iebus model units will be put into operation at the end of this year. This is the first electromobility project in that city and one of the largest in Bulgaria so far. Meanwhile, Stara Zagora, will receive 33 Irizar ie bus units with certain aesthetic features of the Irizar ie tram, creating a distinctive vehicle with maximum comfort, accessibility and safety.

Liechtenstein will put 4 x 100% electric, zero emissions, iebus model,12-metre long Irizar buses into operation.

Irizar solutions can also be seen in the cities of Hamburg, Frankfurt and Düsseldorf in Germany and Bern in Switzerland.

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