MAN Truck & Bus will in future be providing an eBus chassis for the worldwide market. The chassis is predicated on confirmed applied sciences from the Lion’s Metropolis E, which is already working efficiently in lots of European nations and for which a complete of greater than 1,000 orders have been obtained up to now.
First prototypes are to be delivered as early as 2023, collection manufacturing is slated to begin in 2024.
Analysts count on demand for electrical buses to proceed to rise within the coming years. By 2040, gross sales of zero-emission buses are anticipated to rise to greater than 80% of the worldwide market.
To fulfill this demand and make an vital contribution when it comes to sustainable mobility, we at the moment are providing the MAN electrical bus answer for worldwide markets exterior Europe with our eBus chassis. With the chassis, we’re giving bodybuilders from all around the world the right foundation for his or her absolutely electrical fashions.
We’re counting on our long-standing partnerships and are working intensively with our world community of bodybuilders in order that we are able to additionally serve markets in Asia, Africa, South America, Australia and New Zealand in the very best approach.
—Rudi Kuchta, Head of Enterprise Unit Bus at MAN Truck & Bus
The eBus chassis shall be produced at MAN’s plant in Starachowice, Poland, the place the Lion’s Metropolis E can also be manufactured.
As a primary step, MAN will provide the eBus chassis as a two-axle model to be used as a low-floor, low-entry and intercity bus (excessive flooring). The eBus chassis shall be out there as each left- and right-hand drive variants says Barbaros Oktay, Head of Bus Engineering at MAN Truck & Bus.
On the subject of the elements for the eBus chassis, MAN depends on know-how from the Lion’s Metropolis E – above all the electrical central motor on the rear axle and battery know-how from the Volkswagen Group.
MAN can also be going one step additional with battery know-how with the intention to meet the generally enormously totally different necessities of worldwide bus firms when it comes to every day vary, whole mileage, and prices. Along with the NMC know-how (lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt battery) acquainted from the Lion’s Metropolis E, there’ll due to this fact be LFP know-how (lithium-ferrophosphate battery).
In whole, MAN Truck & Bus has signed contracts with prospects for the supply of greater than 1,000 electrical buses for the reason that Lion’s Metropolis E went on sale.
