The Longest Mercedes-Benz and the Drive System of Tomorrow: Daimler at the UITP Congress
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- Bus solutions for urban passenger transport
- Buses: the most effective form of urban mobility
- The new CapaCity L: the longest Mercedes-Benz of all
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The future is electric: Citaro E-CELL and F-CELL
- moovel: The best way from A to B and the temporary car
STUTTGART/MANNHAIM --April 24, 2015: Large-capacity bus
rather than mega-tailback, a whispering gas engine, an outlook on the
intelligent electric drive systems of tomorrow and an app already giving a
free choice between all means of transport today – at the UITP
Congress, the world congress for transport operators, Daimler is presenting
itself as a full-line provider of mobility. Transport operators from all
over the world will be in Milan from 8 to 10 June to keep abreast of
developments – Daimler is offering cities and businesses tailor-made
solutions to transport problems.
Buses:
the most effective form of urban mobility
Hartmut Schick, Head of Daimler Buses: "Already today, more
than half of the world's population lives in cities. Buses are the most
effective way to give large numbers of people mobility, and therefore allow
them to be part of their social surroundings".
The new CapaCity L: the longest Mercedes-Benz
of all
The new Mercedes-Benz
CapaCity L is a further solution to the high density of traffic in
cities. The longest complete Mercedes-Benz of all has a length of
21 metres and can carry up to 191 passengers. This XXL bus is
therefore able to replace around 50 passenger cars on the roads, relieving
urban traffic congestion. The new large-capacity bus is not only enormous
in size,
but also enormously cost-effective and
environmentally friendly: when filled to capacity it consumes less than 0.5
litres of diesel fuel per 100 kilometres per passenger. Which probably
makes it the world's most economical diesel powered bus.
The new CapaCity L has arrived at just the right time:
passenger numbers using urban public transport are increasing worldwide.
The UITP (Union internationale des Transports Public) estimates an increase
of around ten percent in the EU since 2000, a trend which is continuing to
rise. On average, every city-dweller in the EU makes use of public
transport 132 times per year.
The CapaCity
L is the ideal bus for BRT systems. BRT stands for Bus Rapid Transit, i.e.
fast bus transport systems. BRT systems use their own lanes and are much
faster, less expensive and more flexibly usable than rail systems. Daimler
has an in-house department supporting the introduction of BRT systems. Its
experts are in action worldwide, and involved in transport systems in Rio
de Janeiro, Johannesburg, Strasbourg and Istanbul, for example. At present
their focus in on Japan, where they wish to resolve the transport problems
accompanying the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
The future is electric: Citaro E-CELL and
F-CELL
The Mercedes-Benz Citaro is the
world's best-selling city bus: almost 45,000 Citaro models are on the roads
in Europe's major cities and beyond. At present the Citaro is powered by a
clean and highly economical diesel engine meeting the stringent
Euro VI emissions standard. This is now being joined by another: the
UITP Congress will see the world premiere of a new natural gas engine for
the city bus. It is significantly quieter than the already quiet diesel
engines. Moreover, its CO2 emissions are more than 20 percent
lower compared with the diesel equivalent.
Daimler is also looking into the near future: before the
end of the decade, the Citaro E-CELL with battery-electric drive and the
Citaro F-CELL with fuel cell drive will enter series production. The
forecast: in 2030, 70 percent of all newly acquired Citaros will be
locally emission-free with electric drive.
The
Citaro E-CELL and F-CELL will be based on a modular e-platform. This allows
tailor-made electric mobility for individual cities and even for each bus
route: the battery capacity and charging technology are suited to the
individual requirements.
At the same time
Daimler is concertedly driving the further development of the diesel
engine: new fuel-saving technologies such as a compact hybrid are set to
achieve a further reduction in fuel consumption and therefore
CO2 emissions by around ten percent.
moovel: The best way from A to B and the temporary
car
But Daimler is doing even more than
this. Hartmut Schick: "As a bus manufacturer, we want to shape the mobility
of the future. Daimler is therefore offering innovative mobility services
as well.Naturally this is also true of Daimler Buses, with services for
rapid bus lines or depot management".
This is
evidenced by moovel: with the moovel platform Daimler is changing into a
mobility provider. moovel is an app which compares all the available means
of transport with each other in terms of travel time and cost after the
destination is entered: public transport, car and bike sharing, taxi or
lift sharing. Both for inhabitants and visitors to a city or region: moovel
knows the best way from A to B.
And moovel can
do even more: using the flexible car2go mobility scheme, customers can rent
a smart car spontaneously at any time and at the end of their journey park
it anywhere within the relevant designated area. Customers locate the
vehicles using their smartphone or computer and only pay for the hire time
which is calculated by the minute.