Projects

Scope of Business: Electric Mobility
Focus: Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
Clients: Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG, Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH
Project Term: Since 2009
Project Location: Dresden

Project Description

Within the development of an environmentally compatible local transport system on the basis of electric mobility, 20 hybrid motor low-floor articulated buses (18 m) are in operation which will be steadily transformed into buses with advanced electric driving operations. While the buses of the companies DVB AG und LVB GmbH are in operation, the potentials will be recorded to show the statistically significant relationships between the operation profile and the fuel consumption.
The buses driving mechanism consists of a serial hybrid system which has a partial emission-free all-electric mode – a later project will additionally allow the batteries to be charged from an off-vehicle electric energy source. The tendered vehicles form the basis for the implementation of the public transport sub-project– Electric-Street-Saxony - in the model region of Saxony.
VCDB GmbH as a subcontractor of DVB AG and LVB GmbH coordinate the project and contribute specialist knowledge.

VCDB's Scope of Services

• Development of the specifications for the low-floor articulated buses with hybrid motor
• Technical evaluation of the tenders and recommendation for the award of contract
• Technical support for the transport companies during the procurement of vehicles
• Supervision of the manufacturing – monitoring the production of the vehicles according to the specifications
• Equipping the transport companies' workshops for the hybrid buses according to the manufacturing requirements
• Analysis of the results of the buses in operation
• Development of an infrastructure for the power supply

Contact

Jürgen Lange