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12.03.2009 von admin

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Moving Consistently into a Clean Future: Fleet Test for the New Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid Bus
  • Linear development from NEBUS to the Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid
  • Important milestone on the road to zero-emission mobility
  • Completely exhaust-free and virtually silent in the city


Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL-Hybrid

Buses made by Mercedes-Benz are headed straight for a clean future: This June, Mercedes-Benz Buses will present the new Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid model, the brand’s first fuel-cell hybrid bus. The regular-service city bus marks yet another important milestone on the road to zero-emission mobility and improved resource conservation within the framework of Daimler’s “Shaping Future Transportation” global initiative.

Linear development from NEBUS to the Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid

Daimler Buses has been proceeding in a linear fashion down this road, which began in 1997 with the NEBUS research vehicle — the world’s first bus to be equipped with a fuel-cell drive system. Daimler then moved ahead with the fuel cell Citaro, the Citaro G BlueTec Hybrid equipped with a diesel-electric hybrid drive system, and now the new Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid for 2009.

The Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid isn’t a futuristic study — it is already a reality, which is why Mercedes-Benz Buses will soon be extensively monitoring its performance in normal operations within the framework of a major fleet test in several European cities. This test series will proceed along the lines of the successful CUTE fleet test conducted by the European Union between 2003 und 2006. Since 2003, a total of 36 Mercedes-Benz Citaro buses equipped with fuel cell drives have performed outstandingly at 12 public transport agencies on three continents as part of the CUTE test, its HyFLEET:CUTE follow-up project, and other related testing programs. The buses were driven a combined total of more than two million kilometers in a total of approximately 135,000 hours of operation. Their availability — between 90 and 95 percent — impressively demonstrated the environmentally friendly fuel-cell drive’s suitability for everyday use in urban regular-service buses.


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