GERMANY
The German gas industry has recognised the MAN citybus powered by the newly developed E18 gas engine during its 2018 Innovation Prize ceremony. According to MAN, the jury was won over by its economical and environmentally friendly overall concept in combination with the MAN EfficientHybrid hybrid module.
Under the auspices of the Federal Minister of Education and Research Anja Karliczek, the German gas industry undertook the Innovation Prize ceremony at the end of November. The MAN Lion’s City G with hybrid module came in second in the Mobility and Transport category.
If the pool of submissions was limited to companies from the commercial vehicle sector, MAN Truck & Bus would have had the best concept.
“MAN has been the market and technology leader in natural gas buses in Europe for many years,” said Rudi Kuchta, Head of Product & Sales Bus at MAN Truck & Bus.
“In order to be able to offer our customers state-of-the-art technology in the future, we have applied our 75 years of expertise in gas drives to the development of a new engine.
I am therefore particularly pleased that it has been able to convince the jury tasked with choosing the winner of the German gas industry’s Innovation Prize with its outstanding economic efficiency and extremely low exhaust emissions.”
