Business Update: May 6 – Nuclear power for bitcoins, Bogdan trolleybuses for EU


Ukrainian automobile company Bogdan has won a tender in consortium with Czech firm Tram For Envi to supply the Czech Republic with six 12-meter trolleybuses. One Bohdan bus costs 440,000 euros.

Ukraine will supply the Czech Republic with trolleybuses. Ukrainian automobile company Bogdan has won a tender in consortium with Czech firm Tram For Envi to supply the country with six 12-meter trolleybuses. The Czech-Ukrainian consortium offered trolleybuses for 2.6 million euros, or 440,000 euros per bus. The Bogdan trolleybuses are the only ones made in Ukraine that are certified in the EU.

Meanwhile, the European Investment Bank will loan Ukrainian city Lutsk 4.3 million euros to buy 29 trolleybuses. New trolleybuses will help 217,000 residents of Lutsk get more environmentally friendly and energy-efficient public transport, the Infrastructure Ministry of Ukraine has stated. Lutsk will buy trolleybuses from Bogdan.