GERMANY
Three RNV Mercedes-Benz eCitaros are now operating on two electric bus routes serving new districts in Mannheim
Operation of three Mercedes Benz eCitaros run by Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (RNV) has begun, marking the launch of two electric bus routes in Mannheim.
Routes 66 and 67 incorporate the new district of Franklin and the new trading estate Taylor Village in the local public transport network.
Peter Kurz, Mayor of Mannheim and Christian Volz, Commercial Managing Director of RNV, announced the official start of the electric bus routes at the Käfertal station in the presence of Rüdiger Kappel, Head of Sales for Fleets at Daimler Buses Germany.
In their speeches, they emphasised the necessity and advantages of emission-free local public transport as well as the challenges that both government and industry will have to overcome in future.
Around 600 people already live in the new town district of Franklin while almost 700 work in Taylor, the newly developed trading estate. The plan is to increase that number to around 1,500.
For the companies located there, route 66 is an attractive locational advantage with ecological added value.
This also applies to the Daimler Competence Centre for Emission-free Mobility (CEM), which has a manufacturing plant in the middle of the industrial estate and which is directly involved in the production of the eCitaro.
Route 67, on the other hand, improves both the quality of life and living for the families in the district of Franklin. The eCitaro bus on this route also stops at schools and thus serves as a school bus for the children.
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