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SAFRA
is a historic player in the renovation of passenger transport equipment, but also in clean and sustainable mobility. SAFRA’s strategy is based on environmental and social issues, through its different activities: the construction and marketing of hydrogen buses under the BUSINOVA® and HYCITY® brands, retrofitting buses to hydrogen with our H2-PACK® kit, the renovation and heavy maintenance of passenger transport vehicles, as well as the tailor-made service dedicated to the maintenance and monitoring of our customers’ vehicle fleets.


MANUFACTURER
Manufacturer of hydrogen buses under the HYCITY brand
The HYCITY is a zero-emission city bus with a hydrogen engine. This vehicle replaces the Businova, the first hydrogen bus manufactured by SAFRA from 2018 to 2022. The HYCITY has a more standardized size, allowing it to carry a little more than a hundred passengers on a flat floor, in a 2 or 3 door version. Equipped with the latest hydrogen technologies, its approval incorporates recent directives and regulations in terms of cybersecurity, guaranteeing perfect control of the vehicle’s operating data.
RETROFIT
Conversion of diesel coaches to hydrogen with the H2-PACK retrofit kit
SAFRA has developed a product to support the decarbonization of transport vehicles with the H2-PACK, a kit that allows diesel coaches to be retrofitted with hydrogen. It is currently being installed in the company’s workshops in Albi, on 15 Mercedes Intouro intercity coaches, following the contract won by SAFRA in 2021 with the Occitanie region.
The concept of the retrofit kit consists in replacing the thermal drive train by a 100% electric one powered by a hydrogen fuel cell.


RENOVATION
Renovation of passenger transport equipment for 65 years
The Renovation activity specializes in the provision of equipment, fittings and heavy maintenance for urban passenger transport vehicles, as well as in the renovation of buses, streetcars, metros and rail cars.
The technical and production teams are able to carry out all types of contracts, from the study with project management to the complete realization of the project.
SAFRA’s speciality is the realization of mid-life refurbishment, thus allowing the extension of the life span of any type of equipment: bus, metro, tramway, funicular, cable car, train, historical vehicle, rolling or non-rolling, but also the major maintenance of vehicles including railways.
CONNECTED SERVICES AND SOLUTIONS
Bus fleet management with VHYSION
In order to better support its customers, SAFRA has developed a tailor-made service dedicated to the maintenance and monitoring of their vehicle fleets. These services are gathered in a functional and intuitive portal, entirely developed by SAFRA, and marketed under the VHYSION brand. This online platform includes 3 service offers: VHYSION Fleet, VHYSION Report and VHYSION Diag.
This very functional customer portal allows users to manage their bus fleet in real time, to optimize the performance of their vehicles, while controlling the operating costs. The VHYSION tool, is directly accessible via the safra.fr website, with secured authentication, all this in the perfect respect of the data security, and more particularly of the cybersecurity.

Our commitments
We are committed to a global approach to environmental, economic, commercial, social, and societal responsibility. We also prioritise risk prevention and safety in the workplace.
All SAFRA employees are aware of the QSE (Quality, Safety and Environment) and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) role we play, and have been committed for several years to improving procedures in terms of Quality, Safety, and the Environment.

Career
Working at SAFRA means helping our projects move forward, and ensuring that our products and services are of the highest quality.
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