Mercedes sees battery technology skeptical: Daimler uses its own E-Bus premiere for diesel advertising

05/03/2018

Mercedes sees battery technology skeptical Daimler uses its own E-Bus premiere for diesel advertising

DPA

E-Bus Electric Citaro

The car company Daimler Show stock market chart is late with the introduction of electric busses. Excited about the technology, the Stuttgarters were also not impressed by the presentation of their first production-ready copy. Rather, the company used the premiere to convince trade visitors of the benefits of other engines – such as diesel.

“Daimler Buses is now beginning the era of Electric Mobility“, said the boss of the bus division, Hartmut Schick, criticism of the timetable on Monday in Stuttgart.” We had clearly set our priorities as follows: We bring our electric bus as quickly as possible on the street. But we do not do this hastily. He should be mature and efficient. “End of 2018, it should go off with the series production of the battery electric Citaro E-Cell now.

Such locally emission-free buses are considered in the light of exhaust scandal many municipalities as hopefuls, While they have little influence on the cleanliness of cars in inner cities, many municipalities want to improve the air quality with modernized bus fleets. But unlike in China, where already hundreds of thousands of electric buses are traveling on the streets, established manufacturers are doing in Europe difficult to produce such vehicles,

The use is more complex than the city bus with internal combustion engine, said Gustav Tuschen, head of development of Daimlers bus division. “It is impossible to replace the internal combustion engine with an all-electric drive overnight.”

On the other hand, the costs and the limited range of e-buses, the complex power supply, as well as the workshop equipment, are currently being discussed. “E-mobility means thinking about public transport in a completely new way with buses and coaches.”

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For transport companies, which are too exhausting, Daimler also presented a possible alternative as part of the e-bus concept: the diesel bus. “Every day, the Citaro and the CapaCity and Citaro hybrid […] large-capacity buses prove the state-of-the-art state of the art of combustion engine drives in use,” the statement says.

In fact, Daimler reclaims considerable development progress on the diesel. Compared to a city bus of the emission level Euro V, the nitrogen oxide emissions in the diesel hybrid “dropped by up to 98 percent, the particle emissions even reached the detection limit”. The emission of climate-damaging carbon dioxide is reported to be only 20 percent lower.

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