World Premiere of the Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid bus
Stuttgart/Vienna – The new Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid city bus is celebrating its world premiere from June 7 to11 at the UITP World Congress and Mobility & City Transport Exhibition in Vienna.
The fuel cell hybrid bus is the first vehicle in Daimler Buses’ new generation of fuel cell buses. It combines the advantages of the diesel-electric Citaro G BlueTec Hybrid, which was unveiled a few months ago, with those of the hydrogen-powered Citaro fuel cell buses, which have delivered impressive performance in fleet tests.
Mercedes-Benz to deliver 144 city buses to Germany’s largest public transport firm
• Delivery of Mercedes-Benz Citaro LE Low-Entry city buses to begin in October 2009
• Special features for use in Germany’s capital
Stuttgart – Following an EU-wide call for tenders, Daimler Buses has been awarded a contract to supply Germany’s largest public transportation company, Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), with 144 Mercedes-Benz Citaro LE city buses.
The company will begin delivering the buses to the German capital in October 2009. Deliveries will take place successively over a four-year period, with 50 buses to be delivered before the end of this year.
A Mercedes-Benz Citaro bus becomes the world’s largest Ambulance
• The world’s largest ambulance
• The latest medical equipment with the world’s smallest X-ray unit
• Mercedes-Benz Citaro as the perfect platform
Stuttgart – " Scalpel please, sister! " is a sentence that in future might not only be heard in a hospital operating theatre, but also in one of the three new, large-capacity ambulances handed over to the Centre of Ambulance Services of the Government of Dubai.
From now on, it is the hospital that comes to the patient in Dubai.
New Mercedes-Benz hybrid bus in operation
• 250 customers test the Mercedes-Benz Citaro G BlueTec Hybrid city bus
• World's largest lithium-ion battery in vehicle operation
• Diesel consumption and CO2 emissions reduced by up to 30 percent
• Citaro G BlueTec Hybrid – future-oriented technology for the city
• 40 years of Daimler hybrid buses
Stuttgart - More than 250 customers from 15 countries recently had the opportunity to experience first-hand the Mercedes-Benz Citaro G BlueTec Hybrid articulated bus in operation for the first time.
