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Siemens’ Mobility Division has received a new order from Oslo Vognselskap AS, a rolling stock leasing company in Norway, to supply 32 three-car metro trains worth a total of about 180 million euros. The contract for the deal was signed in Oslo on December 21, 2010. The trains are to start rolling out of the Siemens plant in Vienna and heading to the Norwegian capital in 2012. With this order, the customer is exercising an option dating back to 2003, when the Oslo rapid transit company ordered its first metro trains from Siemens. To date, Siemens Mobility has delivered a total of 83 three-car metro trainsets for rapid transit service in Oslo.

Siemens Mobility has received an order from the Viennese mass transit operator Wiener Linien to supply train control systems for the fourth phase of the project to extend the Vienna Underground. The order is worth around 25 million euros. Installation is due for completion by 2015.

Siemens has launched a new hybrid energy storage system for streetcars. Streetcars equipped with the solution can be driven up to 2,500 meters without an overhead conductor, and the system saves lots of energy. This is possible thanks to a combination of a double-layer capacitor and battery.

Siemens has received an order from San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) for the delivery of 57 S70 type light rail vehicles (LRV). This order is worth approximately €140 million (US$205 million). These new LRVs will be completely built in the Siemens plant in Sacramento, USA. Deliveries will begin in 2011.