Citaro Archives

Augsburger Stadtwerke buys Mercedes-Benz Citaro NGTs

21/03/2016

German town operating a 100% gas-fuelled fleet adds additional Mercedes-Benz Citaro NGTs GERMANY Hartmut Schick, Head of Daimler Buses, has handed over the symbolic key to 12 Mercedes-Benz Citaro NGT (Natural Gas Technology) buses to Dr Walter Casazza, […]

Citaros with warm air curtains

18/01/2016

GERMANY While over-door air curtains are a very familiar feature on buildings in temperate central Europe, they remain an exception for buses.

London innovations on the way – New Routemaster

07/12/2015

Virtual electrics launched and first sighting of short New Routemaster Enviro400VE After trials on the route using one bus, Tower Transit has shown its Alexander Dennis (ADL) Enviro400VE ‘virtual electrics’ at a UITP stakeholder event […]

Daimler Buses turned around: now back in profit

19/03/2014

German market share rises from 48.9% to 51.2%, boosted by availability of Euro 6 range. EUROPE: Daimler Buses has released its financial results for 2013. The company recorded operating profit of €124m after posting an […]

1,000th Euro 6 Citaro sold to HEAG mobiBus of Darmstadt

12/03/2014

GERMANY: Almost in parallel with the statutory deadline for the introduction of the Euro 6 emissions standard at the start of 2014, Mercedes-Benz handed over its 1000th Euro 6 Citaro to Ralf Steinmetz, Director of […]

Trent barton and yourbus competition heats up

20/08/2013

trent barton has criticised YourBus after it started letting passengers on its services use the £5 Zig Zag day tickets, which entitle the holder to a day’s unlimited travel on trent barton’s network throughout Derbyshire […]

217 Euro 6 Citaros for Wiener Linien with Voith DIWA.6 transmissions

13/08/2013

Austria From autumn 2013, passengers boarding a bus in Vienna stand a good chance of reaching their destination in one of the city’s most modern and comfortable buses. Wiener Linien is refurbishing its fleet with […]

Epsom trials the UK’s first Citaro K

06/08/2013

Quality Line, the bus division of Epsom Coaches, is operating the first Mercedes-Benz Citaro K in the UK.

First Euro 6 Citaro LEs delivered

30/04/2013

GERMANY Klaus Dieregsweiler of infra fürth verkehr gmbh (sic) recently took delivery of the first two Euro 6 Citaro LEs from Rüdiger Kappel, Brand Manager for Mercedes-Benz Buses and Coaches.

BLT receives Nine Euro 6 Citaros

16/04/2013

SWITZERLAND Swiss operator BLT Baselland Transport AG has taken delivery of nine Euro 6 Mercedes-Benz Citaros. These are the first standard-production regular-service buses featuring this clean technology to go into service with BLT in Switzerland.

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