Ebusco

Ebusco
legal form	BV
founding	2010
Seat	Deurne , Netherlands
management	Peter Bijvelds
Number of employees	130
sales	20 million euros
Branch	Manufacture of commercial vehicles
Website	www.ebusco.com
Status: 2018

The company Ebusco BV of Deurne is a Dutch supplier of electric buses . Ebusco produces low-floor buses in different versions.

history

Ebusco was founded in 2010 in Helmond by Peter Bijvelds. In autumn 2012, the company presented its first bus model, the Ebusco 1.0, at the IAA Commercial Vehicles in Hanover . In the same year Ebusco was the first European company to receive type approval for an electrically powered bus.

In 2017, an innovation partnership was concluded with the Stadtwerke München and the Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft .

In September 2018 the company moved to Deurne, where the company now has a more than 7000 m² production hall at its disposal.

Models

Ebusco 1.0

The Ebusco 1.0 was presented in 2012. The buses were used for test drives in various European cities.

Ebusco 2.0

The Ebusco 2.0 is a 12 m long bus in low-floor design . It was presented to the public for the first time at the 2014 IAA Commercial Vehicles in Hanover and has a battery with an energy content of 242 kWh. Buses of this type are used by Boreal Norge AS in Stavanger , among others .

Ebusco 2.1

Ebusco 2.1 of the Borkumer Kleinbahn

The Ebusco 2.1 is also a 12 m long bus. The Borkumer Kleinbahn vehicle was delivered in April 2017 and has a battery with an energy content of 311 kWh. The production of the bus was made by the Chinese company Xiamen Golden Dragon Bus Co. Ltd .

Companies	Type	number	delivery date	Place of use	source
Germany
Borkum small train	2.1	1	April 2017	Borkum
Munich transport company	2.1	2	September 2017	Munich
Netherlands
U-OV (Qbuzz)	2.1	10	September 2017	Utrecht
Norway
Norgesbuss	2.1	3	May 2017	Stavanger

Ebusco 2.2

Ebusco 2.2 from Qbuzz

The Ebusco 2.2 has been available in three different versions since the second half of 2018: as a 12 m long LF variant (Low Floor) with three doors, as a 12 m long LE variant (Low Entry) with two doors and as an 18 m long articulated bus . The vehicles are manufactured in China by the Australian company Bus and Coach International (BCI) and can carry between ninety and one hundred and thirty people.

The city buses used in Munich are powered by an electric machine with an output of 124 kW. The bus is equipped with a lithium iron phosphate battery with an energy content of 362 kWh and has a range of up to 280 kilometers. The battery can be recharged in four hours at a charging station with an output of 75 kW.

The model is currently available with two different battery sizes (as of January 2020). A battery with 362 kWh is installed as standard in all buses, and a battery with 475 kWh (standard buses) or 544 kWh (articulated bus) is optionally available. The maximum motor power of the asynchronous central motor is 270 kW (standard buses) or 250 kW (articulated bus).

Companies	Type	number	delivery date	Place of use	source
Belgium
Multiobus / De Lijn	2.2	10	Spring 2021	Flemish Brabant Province
Germany
City bus Bocholt	2.2 LF	1	November 2019	Bocholt
SWB bus and train	2.2?	4th	2020	Bonn
Borkum small train	2.2 LE	1	November 2019	Borkum
Transdev Rhine-Main	2.2 LF	13	December 2020	Frankfurt am Main
Munich transport company	2.2 LF	4th	March or September 2019	Munich
Wartburg mobile	2.2 LF	2	July 2020	Eisenach
Netherlands
Connexxion	?	156	November 2020	Haarlem and Amsterdam
Qbuzz	2.2 LF	37	2018	Drechtsteden
	2.2 LE	60	November 2019	Regional traffic in the province of Groningen / Province of Drenthe
U-OV (Qbuzz)	2.2 LE	20th	June 2020	Utrecht (U-link 34)

Ebusco 3.0

The Ebusco 3.0 was presented at Busworld 2019 , is said to be 33% lighter than its predecessor, Ebusco 2.2, and can travel up to 500 kilometers on battery charge. The Ebusco 3.0 is the first Ebusco model to be built entirely in the Netherlands. Production is scheduled to start in mid-2020.

The Ebusco 3.0 was awarded the Busworld Innovation Label in 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Ebusco  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.sprout.nl
2. ↑ Editorial office mvg.de: E-mobility for buses: EBUSCO, SWM and MVG agree innovation partnership. Retrieved February 8, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Electric bus for Borkum accessed on January 28, 2020
4. ↑ 10 new electric busses for Utrecht, the Netherlands accessed on January 28, 2020
5. ↑ Daniel Bönnighausen: Ebusco will deliver the first e-buses to Munich in 2019. In: electrive.net. October 8, 2018, accessed January 28, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Sebastian Schaal: Ebusco delivers ten e-buses to Belgium. In: electrive.net. April 24, 2020, accessed April 27, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Bocholt's first battery-operated electric bus. In: welovebocholt.de. November 25, 2019, accessed January 29, 2020 . 
8. ^ Daniel Bönnighausen: Stadtwerke Bonn want to purchase 7 electric buses. In: electrive.net. October 31, 2019, accessed January 29, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Ebusco supplies electric buses for Transdev. In: nahverkehr-ffm.de. May 17, 2020, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Cora Werwitzke: Munich starts project of the first pure e-bus line. In: electrive.net. March 7, 2019, accessed January 28, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Cora Werwitzke: Ebusco two with construction E buses commissioned for Eisenach. In: electrive.net. January 14, 2019, accessed January 28, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Electric buses now also in regular service in Eisenach. In: mdr.de. July 10, 2020, accessed on July 13, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Cora Werwitzke: Ebusco builds 156 electric buses for Transdev Netherlands. In: electrive.net. October 18, 2019, accessed January 28, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Cora Werwitzke: Netherlands: Qbuzz are construction of 160 e-buses in order. In: electrive.net. December 3, 2019, accessed January 28, 2020 . 
15. ↑ Sebastian Schaal: Ebusco: Lighter e-bus for more range. In: electrive.net. October 14, 2019, accessed January 28, 2020 . 
16. ↑ www.busworldeurope.org