Emil, Edith And Elton In Hamburg VHH Are Charged And Ready With 16 New Electric Mercedes-Benz eCitaro Buses

汉堡 VHH 的 Emil、Edith 和 Elton 已为 16 辆梅赛德斯-奔驰 eCitaro 新电动巴士充电就绪

Hamburg drives electrically: Rüdiger Kappel, Head of Fleet Sales for Daimler Buses Germany, today handed over 16 fully electric Mercedes-Benz eCitaro buses to Toralf Müller and Nora Wolters, Managing Directors at Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein GmbH (VHH). VHH has around 2100 employees and 667 buses at 12 locations and is thus the second-biggest public transport company in northern Germany. The company is based in Hamburg and transports 106.6 million passengers every year. VHH operates within the Hamburg Verkehrsverbund (HVV) transport association where it runs 160 lines in the Hamburg metropolitan region. From this year, VHH will be procuring only locally emission-free buses for use in Hamburg’s city center areas.

从左到右戴姆勒客车（德国）车队销售主管吕迪格-卡佩尔（Rüdiger Kappel）和戴姆勒客车公共交通销售经理托斯滕-加洛（Thorsten Gallo）今天将16辆梅赛德斯-奔驰eCitaro纯电动客车移交给汉堡荷尔斯泰因铁路有限公司（VHH）总经理诺拉-沃尔特斯（Nora Wolters）和托拉夫-米勒（Toralf Müller）。图片来源：戴姆勒股份公司媒体

The eCitaro buses bear a conspicuous livery: “elexity – Hamburg drives electrically”. Under the elexity brand, VHH combines all aspects of sustainable mobility – with everything from the infrastructure at their depots to specially trained personnel and even vehicles which run entirely on green power. What’s more, all the electric buses at VHH also bear a name beginning with the letter “E”. The first 16 names, which include Emil, Edith and Elton, were chosen by employees of the transport company. During the handover, VHH invited its passengers to take part in a naming competition for further electric buses.

eCitaro 的装备尤其令人印象深刻。它们的特点包括：站立平台区域的玻璃侧壁、三扇双宽车门、用于智能手机的 USB 充电端口、引人注目的座椅内饰设计和木质地板。此外，总容量为 292 kWh 的十二个电池组确保了适当的车辆续航能力。同样堪称典范的还有车载安全设备，如电子稳定程序 ESP、主动制动辅助系统 Preventive Brake Assist 和转弯辅助系统 Sideguard Assist。

这 16 辆 eCitaro 汽车很快就会有同伴了：汉堡荷尔斯泰因铁路公司（VHH）又订购了 4 辆 eCitaro 单人巴士和 17 辆铰接式 eCitaro G 巴士。这些巴士预计也将于今年年底交付。