Sono Motors Gains Scania and LLT as New Customers

• Sono Motors Gains Scania and LLT as New Customers, Putting Buses With Solar Technology on the Road in Luleå, Sweden.
• Several Scania Diesel Buses Operated by the LLT Public Transport Authority Have Been Equipped With Sono Motors’ Innovative Solar Technology and Are Already up and Running.
• A Customized Version of the Solar Bus Kit, Developed by Sono Motors, Is Now Being Tested in Northern Climates in Real-Life Conditions.
• According to LLT and Scania, Solar Technology Could Be an Option for Future Electric Buses.

MUNICH, Germany, Oct. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Munich-based photo voltaic mobility OEM Sono Motors (NASDAQ: SEV) good points new clients in Scania, a subsidiary of Volkswagen, and LLT, a Swedish public transport authority, in a novel mission to check the Solar Bus Kit in real-life situations within the northern hemisphere. The goal of the mission is to optimize the effectivity of the photo voltaic know-how for buses in northern climates. LLT is the primary transport authority in Scandinavia to equip buses with a custom-made model of the Solar Bus Kit with 1 kW peak set up, and have outfitted six Scania mannequin Citywide K320 diesel buses. These solar-equipped buses are used for public transport in Luleå, Sweden and are supposed to assist scale back transport emissions. For every year of operation, the photo voltaic know-how developed by Sono Motors has the potential to save lots of approx. 2.9 tonnes of CO2 and as much as 1,100 liters of diesel per bus. According to LLT and Scania, photo voltaic know-how may very well be an choice sooner or later to extend the vary of electrical buses.

Scania, a subsidiary of the Volkswagen group, is a world-leading supplier of transport options, together with vehicles and buses for heavy transport functions. In 2021, the Swedish firm offered and delivered over 85,000 vehicles and greater than 4,400 buses. The Citywide K320 is one other bus mannequin for which Sono Motors has optimized its Solar Bus Kit, following the optimizations for the MAN Lion’s City and the Mercedes-Benz Citaro.

“Sustainable public transport is one of the most important pillars of the revolution of mobility. Our Solar Bus Kit was developed as a scalable retrofit product intended to help public transport authorities to start saving diesel and reduce emissions today. We are happy to have found two partners in Scania and LLT who share our values, and it is gratifying to see the fruit of our efforts now on the roads of Sweden,” says Laurin Hahn, CEO and co-founder of Sono Motors.

“The Solar Bus Kit has the potential to reduce both the amount of fossil energy sources used and CO2 emissions. For Scania, it is great to be able to test the solar technology for buses in real-life conditions with a client that we know shares similar goals, and with whom we also have a long and established relationship,” says Rutger Hörndahl, Senior Technical Advisor Scania Buses and Coaches.

“LLT’s goal is to provide public transportation that has the least amount of impact on the environment. This project is a part of our work to evaluate new technologies and decrease our carbon footprint. By 2030 half of our buses will be fully electric. Solar-equipped diesel buses will help us learn the pros and cons of this technology. Solar is one of the future’s large-scale energy sources and it’s good for us at LLT, the climate, and the city of Luleå to gain more knowledge and insight on how solar technology can be implemented as a future mobility solution,” says Jonas Vinblad von Walter, CEO of LLT.

ABOUT SONO MOTORS
Sono Motors is on a pioneering mission to speed up the revolution of mobility by making each automobile photo voltaic. Sono Motors’ disruptive photo voltaic know-how has been engineered to be seamlessly built-in into quite a lot of automobile architectures – together with buses, vehicles, trailers, and extra – to increase vary and scale back gasoline prices as effectively as the impression of CO2 emissions, paving the best way for climate-friendly mobility

The Company’s trailblazing automobile, the Sion, has the potential to turn into the world’s first reasonably priced photo voltaic electrical automobile (SEV) for the lots. Empowered by a robust international neighborhood, Sono Motors has over 20,000 reservations with advance down funds for the Sion as of 1 September 2022.

ABOUT LLT
LLT plans and executes public transport for buses in Luleå metropolis. The firm dates again to 1923 and for the final 15 years has been within the high three by way of happy clients in Sweden. LLT’s imaginative and prescient is that public transport in Luleå ought to be aggressive, sustainable, fashionable and the popular selection for town’s residents and guests.

The metropolis of Luleå has simply over 48,000 inhabitants and over the course of a 12 months this generates 3.4 million buyer journeys with LLT. During a winter’s day, with temperatures all the way down to -30 levels Celsius, round 25,000 clients journey with LLT.

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