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SOLID-STATE BATTERY BUSES
MERCEDES-BENZ in Europe has received a
record-breaking order for 56 eCitaro urban
electric buses – 41 with the latest solid-state
battery technology – from public transport
company ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
in Wiesbaden, within Germany’s Hesse
region, it’s been announced recently.
The company will take care of the
adaptation of the service yard, the
equipment and setting up of charging
infrastructure, as well as the charging
management process itself, it explains.
With this commission, the city of
Wiesbaden is switching a fifth of its bus
fleet to electro-mobility within a short
period of time, it’s claimed.
Ulrich Bastert, head of Marketing, Sales
and Customer Services at Daimler Buses,
said: “Due to its outstanding features, the
new eCitaro has won through in no time.
Wiesbaden’s invitation to tender, however,
also shows the systemic challenges
involved in the introduction of e-mobility,which we are happy to play a part in.”
With its newest record large-scale
order for 56 buses from ESWE Verkehrs-
gesellschaft mbH in Wiesbaden, the state
capital of Hesse will receive the first 10
eCitaro buses from the order this year
already, while the remaining buses will
be delivered next year.
The first 15 Wiesbaden eCitaros will
be equipped with current-generation
lithium-ion batteries. These are NMC
batteries (lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt-oxide cells). Each eCitaro is
equipped with 12 battery packs with
a total capacity of 292kWh, it states.
The remaining 41 eCitaros will be
equipped with solid-state batteries. With
this new bus technology, solid-state
batteries have a very high energy density. In
this case, seven battery packs are sufficient
in order to provide a huge battery capacity
of 441kWh.
All 56 buses are charged by plug in at
the depot.“Due to its
outstanding
features, the new
eCitaro has won
through in no time.”