Automecanica Mediaș launches in Brussels the first electric bus produced in Romania, the prototype will be exhibited at Busworld Europe, the largest international exhibition in the field of buses and coaches, informs a press release sent to CaleaEuropeană.ro.
Currently in its 50th edition, the event will take place this year at Brussels Expo, from 7-12 October 2023. More than 500 exhibitors will welcome around 40,000 visitors during the 6-day event.
“Several Romanian MEPs, as well as local and central government representatives from Romania were pleasantly surprised by this Romanian presence at a world leading exhibition hosted in Brussels and announced their presence at the exhibition and at the Romanian Automecanica Mediaș stand,” the source quoted above said.
The Romanian Embassy in the Kingdom of Belgium, as well as the Permanent Representation of Romania to the European Union also welcomed the Romanian presence at this exhibition and expressed their wish to visit the exhibition and the Romanian stand, the company’s press release also states.
The chairman of Automecanica Mediaș, Andrei Scobioală, said at the press conference held on Friday, October 6, in Brussels:
“The bus features all the technical characteristics that top manufacturers in this field have introduced to the market. Its production in Romania will stimulate horizontal development in other companies and aligns with the European concept of green transportation, emphasizing high quality, energy efficiency, and avant-garde urban design. Automecanica’s bus family portfolio includes various lengths ranging from 6 to 18 meters. The company’s short and medium-term strategy aims to introduce the prototype for trams to customers starting in 2024, followed by the electric prototype of a high-speed light train in 2025, and the metro prototype in 2026.”
The Automecanica Mediaș industrial platform, founded in 1941, with a long industrial tradition, through major investments in the last year and an important contribution of know-how, is moving into a new phase, that of the production of buses and electric urban transport vehicles.
Automecanica Mediaș and its research and development centre, with a very good experience and know-how in this field, has attracted specialists with a strong international experience, thus obtaining the realization of a state-of-the-art prototype, with a high quality and competitive level and an exceptional design, appreciated also by the members of the competing companies, present at this event.
