Mellow’s brand new showpiece is an electrically powered and on a Fiat Ducato chassis based minibus for public transport. This Mellor electric minibus is called Orion E. According to the manufacturer, it is the first fully electric minibus with low floor. It offers space for sixteen seats but is flexible enough to fit four wheelchairs as well.
Turkish manufacturer Otokar seizes the Busworld opportunity and launches its latest creation: the Ulyso.
Daimler is once again very well-represented at Buswold. In hall 5, the South German multinational presents both of its brands Setra and Mercedes-Benz. Most of the news was already presented earlier this year with the Setra double-decker and the new Mercedes-Benz Tourismo. Still, for Busworld, they had another scoop in store, the Mercedes-Benz Citaro ‘mild-hybrid’. A striking step amid the battery-electric overload at Busworld. We asked Hartmut Schick, CEO of Daimler Buses, the obvious question: why?
BYD, Build Your Dreams, from the Chinese Shenzhen, shows quite some new developments at its spacious stand at Busworld. It also features a giant Busworld scoop: an 8.75m midi bus with a fully low floor with full air conditioning which is, according to BYD, full of big bus features.
In the margin of Busworld, an interesting seminar brought some new insights about a frequently forgotten group of public transport users: the elderly. There is no doubt about the aging of the population. The question is whether public transport operators are conducting a policy adapted to this target group. The answer is no, according to the study by Professor Christian Haas of Frenesius University (D). It is not about wheelchair users, but about people who are getting slower in their movements, in taking decisions, who do not see or hear that well anymore due to their age.