JEC Composites, the largest composites industry organization is granting its Innovation Award to the Modulo bus family as the winner in its category for its self-supporting, modular, full composite body designed by Hungary’s evopro and manufactured by Russia’s NCC. The vehicle’s shape was designed by Maform studio, while its manufacturing technology was designed by the evopro engineering group in Hungary and perfected by NCC in Russia. The design resulted in a self-supporting, fiberglass-composite sandwich construction body with a thin cross-section that provides a unique solution to bus manufacturing. Its modular design allows for cost-effective mass production, and the same module types can be bonded together with the same manufacturing process to produce different length vehicles. Important advantages of the award-winning body frame include its ultralight weight resulting in lower fuel consumption and thus lower emissions; and the self-supporting composite body is corrosion free, resulting in lower maintenance costs. The modular design provides a competitive edge over traditional steel-body buses because it is more cost-effective and allows for faster manufacturing.