10.4.2019 Stuttgart / Wiesbaden. Mercedes‑Benz has received a record number of orders for the electric bus eCitaro. The major order comes from the ESWE verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (short ESWE traffic) from the Hessian state capital of Wiesbaden.
As a provider of integrated solutions for electro-mobility, Mercedes‑Benz not only supplies the electric buses, but also assumes the conversion of the Depot, the design and construction of the Charging infrastructure and charging management. Wiesbaden, with the order within a short period of time a fifth of his omnibus to the vehicle fleet to electric mobility.
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- eCitaro: new best brand and pioneer of new battery technology
- Electric bus and infrastructure from one source
- ESWE verkehrsgesellschaft mbH and Mercedes-Benz: close and successful partnership
eCitaro: new best brand and pioneer of new battery technology
Ulrich Bastert, head of Marketing, Sales and Customer Services for Daimler Buses: “The new eCitaro has set due to its outstanding properties, in the shortest amount of time. The tender Wiesbaden but also shows the system challenges the introduction of E-mobility and we are particularly delighted that we can contribute.“
Frank Gäfgen, managing Director of ESWE transport: “We will now start the realisation of our Vision of emission-free Driving in urban transport in Wiesbaden, Germany. We want to put Germany at the top.“
Only last autumn at the IAA commercial vehicles presented, rushes to the fully electrically driven and thus locally emission-free city bus Mercedes‑Benz eCitaro in the cities. Latest best brand of the major order for 56 buses from ESWE transport in Wiesbaden, Germany, is now. The Hessian state capital will receive the first ten eCitaro of the contract in the course of this year, the other coaches want to follow in the coming year.
The first 15 eCitaro for Wiesbaden get Lithium-ion batteries the current Generation. It is batteries with NMC technology (Lithium-Nickel-manganese-cobalt-Oxide cells). Each eCitaro has twelve battery packs with a total capacity of 292 kWh.
The other 41 eCitaro will be equipped with solid batteries. With this new battery technology, the eCitaro takes over the role again in a tour and in General of the pioneers in the automotive industry. Solid batteries are characterized by a very high energy density. Seven battery packs in this case, for a huge battery capacity of 441 kWh. Thus, the eCitaro self-returns under the most serious boundary condition for the electric heating in the Winter, more than 200 km to the SORT 2. All 56 buses will be loaded by the plug-in in the Depot.
Electric bus and infrastructure from one source
As a special feature, Mercedes‑Benz assumes in the framework of this contract, the General contractor as a supplier of the total system, including construction of the infrastructure – a Premiere in Germany. In this context, the existing depot be redesigned, rebuilt, and gradually with charging stations for the buses want. The tasks include even the construction of the transformer station to the forming of a stream of medium – to low-voltage as well as the cable routing on the site.
Ulrich Bastert: “We want to can be optimized to penetrate the example of Wiesbaden, the introduction of E‑mobility in all its aspects, specifically, to gain additional impetus, such as a total system. This will not, however, remain, at least for now least due to capactive restrictions on the exception.“
Part of the job, the load management is also. It is together controls with the partner company, IVU Traffic Technologies from Berlin, a renowned specialist for tailor-made IT solutions. This includes the assignment of each Bus in his driveway at a defined load point. A smart charging management system ensures that all the buses are loaded with the necessary amount of current for their next journey, including pre-conditioning, so the temperature of the battery and the passenger compartment. It ensures maximum efficiency. The Service for the eCitaro of the ESWE transport is carried out in cooperation with the Taunus car sales LTD (TAV), which is in the immediate neighborhood.
ESWE verkehrsgesellschaft mbH and Mercedes-Benz: close and successful partnership
ESWE verkehrsgesellschaft mbH operates the Public transport system in Wiesbaden, Germany, with 271 buses. You are driving on 41 routes and transport in the year almost 60 million passengers. Of the approximately 1100 employees, two-thirds in the driving service. This fleet is by far the largest part of the Mercedes‑Benz Citaro, together With the introduction of the eCitaro realized ESWE transport an ambitious Plan: Within a year the company makes a fifth of its bus fleet on fully electric vehicles.
Mercedes-Benz and the ESWE transport maintain long been a successful partnership. This is not only two bus-classics of the years 1961 and 1983. For example, ESWE transport took over in 2012, the first low-emission Citaro according to emission level Euro VI. He had previously witnessed its world premiere in the Public.
With the support of the transport operations organized by Mercedes-Benz, but also to the much-acclaimed Record Run. In this competition, the Citaro Euro VI achieved under practical conditions in the Wiesbaden city traffic with a neutral supervision in comparison to the previous model, a fuel Consumption of 8.5 per cent, with correspondingly lower CO2 emissions.
With the Mercedes‑Benz eCitaro the company is now the next big step: ESWE transportation and the city of Wiesbaden have set themselves the ambitious goal to realize as the first city in Germany, the Vision of emission-free transport.
The locally emission-free Mercedes-Benz eCitaro and tailor-made infrastructure from a single source: From left to right: Ulrich Bastert, head of Marketing, Sales and Customer Services for Daimler Buses, Frank Gäfgen, managing Director of ESWE transport, Sven Gerich, mayor of the city of Wiesbaden, Germany, and Andreas Kowohl, head of the Traffic Department of the city of Wiesbaden.
