Citywide Low Floor (electrobus)

2018: Exit to public roads

On February 28, 2018 Volkswagen  called terms of entry into the market of the first completely electric bus — Citywide Low Floor. The Scania company belonging to the German concern specializing in production of trucks is engaged in its production.

According to the message on the website Volkswagen, Citywide Low Floor buses will come to public roads in the middle of 2018. They will ply on the Swedish city of Östersund.

The Citywide Low Floor electrobus at the station of accumulator charging

At first will start up three buses along a 15-kilometer route which will execute 100 runs every day. Between runs rechargeable batteries will be charged within 10 minutes. Quantity of stops on the way of the movement of the electrobus — 40.

Technical characteristics of Citywide Low Floor are known little. It is reported only that motor transport to gather speed to 70 km/h that it is quite enough for the city bus.

The editor of the Busmagasinet magazine and the president of jury of tender on the best International Bus & Coach buses Tom Terjesen tested Citywide Low Floor and noted that the bus well is controlled on the road and publishes a small amount of noise.

Usually, when for the electric bus remove the diesel engine, in it there is a new group of foreign sounds. But in the accumulator Scania bus there is practically no noise. We detected only a small scratch from sealants of doors, but we went on the ice and badly smelling roads. The bus is almost completely identical to the diesel version of Citywide both externally, and internally, but has the power unit with zero emission of harmful substances — Teryesen summarized.

The bus is adapted for city and suburban transport transportations, providing profitability of operation and high environmental standards of passenger traffic, reported in Volkswagen.^[1]

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