Buses from China: Electric Shock for Daimler and Co.
18 July 2012
www.chinabuses.org: They are quiet, clean, cheap–and just come from China. A Berlin entrepreneur imported the first electric city buses from the People's Republic. Experts are baffled, delighted transport companies. Daimler, MAN and Co. look suddenly quite old.
The batteries provide power for a city bus, which could relieve the centers of carcinogenic diesel fumes and noise. Power from the lithium-polymer memory drives the twelve-foot vehicle –nothing else. Therefore, the bus is suitable for the auto industry belonging to whirl.
Thomas Christian Seitz has acted against all the certainties of the industry when he converted a bus in China and loaded onto a ship with destination Hamburg. Now the manager of the company stands by his Euracom Eurabus and nods: “The fascinating thing is – it works.”
It’s almost no one had the battery technology now on the list in the search for new propulsion systems for buses. Hybrid, fuel cell, natural gas – so the industry will cope with the transition in 40 years. Daimler MAN Volvo and Co. have billions invested in technologies that are mainly located far from the market.
And now comes this two-meter lanky and said that the Chinese technology just for passing into that. In the People’s Republic, according to the consulting firm Roland Berger more than 1,000 battery buses are in use. Rows of exile and thirsty cities smelly diesel buses.
The father sold DDR trucks in China battery vehicles are meanwhile better and cheaper. “Development is rapidly,” says Seitz. About 250, almost 400 kilometers, the buses come with a charge, the evidence also trials in Europe. In most cities, that’s enough for one day. Recharged at night – in three hours.
The open question remains how strongly decreases the range in winter temperatures. In fact, only about 10 percent, such as lab tests show? Transport Corporation of Pinneberg, near Hamburg in Uetersen tests the bus is now in regular service. The heating could still cause problems. In a test with a battery bus brand Cobus in Offenbach, the passengers frozen bitterly.
Seitz dismisses. His partner of Tewoo Group of Tianjin will hold back word that he is safe. “There are so many prejudices in Germany over China,” says the entrepreneur. The local engineers were much better than its reputation.
Seitz China knows from childhood. Detlef father sold there in the eighties, tens of thousands of East German IFA truck brand. Later, when Beijing began with the 2008 Olympics, electric buses, father and son was clear: Now put the Chinese standards. Together drive forward Seitz junior and senior today the battery bus project.
Source : news-round.co.uk
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