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English   15 years ago: Buses under a new umbrella: the EvoBus era begins
12.10.2010 von admin

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15 years ago: Buses under a new umbrella: the EvoBus era begins
  • Forward-pointing technology for the Citaro urban bus
  • Made-to-measure Cito midibus
  • The Travego follows the O 404

The Integro was the first joint product developed under the Evobus name.

The 1990s brought a great many changes in the brand landscape among Europe’s bus and coach manufacturers. As the year 1994 progressed, the signs of what would come to pass in early 1995, 100 years since Carl Benz invented the bus, became increasingly clearer: the then Daimler-Benz AG would take over the Setra brand, spin off the Mercedes-Benz Bus and Coach unit and join the two brands to create the subsidiary EvoBus GmbH.

Behind this move was the search for a new approach to the business. In the existing constellation, for years the buses and coaches with the star had been unable to put themselves on an economically sound basis. And since the first-rate brand Setra of Karl Kässbohrer Fahrzeugwerke was not doing too well either, the probably once-in-a-lifetime opportunity resulted to bring the two tradition-steeped companies together under one roof: contribute the different strengths of each brand, attack the weaknesses of each brand – that could lead to success.

And so it was. After a relatively short time EvoBus moved into the black and was doing certain things differently than both the group in Stuttgart and the former family-owned company in Ulm. Part of what was different were the synergies which began with a well-thought-out production system: manufacture of the bodyshell for all buses of both brands, including cataphoretic dip priming, at the Mannheim factory; transfer by rail directly from Mannheim to Neu-Ulm, to the plant which was newly built at the start of the 90s. Final assembly and painting there – and there’s your bus. Ten years after the establishment of EvoBus, only the Citaro was being manufactured entirely in Mannheim; only the variants for France were produced at the French plant in Ligny.


Cathodic dip coating: Dipping of the body in a priming bath to protect against corrosion.


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