Electric low-floor bus

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As electric low-floor buses , including e-package cars or e-Parcel vehicles often only ENO were equipped with electric drive delivery vehicles of the Austrian postal and telegraph administration designated.

E-parcel trolley ENO, built in 1951, taken in March 1951
Electric low-floor bus, recorded in 2010 in the Historama technology museum in Ferlach in Carinthia

description

After decades of experience with electrically powered vehicles, the Austrian Post and Telegraph Administration procured a total of 160 electric parcel vehicles between 1950 and 1955 and referred to them as electric low-floor buses (ENO). Manufacturers were Dostal and the Austrian Automobile Factory (ÖAF) .

Two variants were procured, 135 pieces of the smaller 2 ENO and 25 larger 5 ENO , with different technical data, but very similar appearance.

Reasons to procure new electric vehicles were u. a. in the low operating noise and in the presence of existing charging stations. When designing the low-floor vehicle, particular attention was paid to the ergonomics of the parcel delivery service.

Technical specifications

Technical specifications
2 ENO 5 ENO
payload 2,000 kg 3,150 kg
total weight 6,000 kg 10,250 kg
Empty weight including batteries 7,100 kg
Loading area 5 m²
Hold 7 m³ 23.5 m³
length 5480 mm 7000 mm
width 1840 mm 2250 mm
height 2390 mm 2900 mm
wheelbase 1800 mm
Turning circle 14 m
Top speed 35 km / h 28 km / h
Radius of action up to 60 km up to 60 km
Climbing ability until 20 %
drive DC motor via cardan shaft and differential on the rear axle,
3 speed levels for forward and 2 for reverse
Drive power 13 kW
tension 160 V
Battery capacity 2 × 30 kWh
Battery weight 1200 kg 2 × 900 kg
Interior height 1930 mm
construction Rear loading door
Battery change system Yes Yes

commitment

The ENO vehicles were used in Vienna , Graz , Linz , Salzburg , Klagenfurt , Villach and Innsbruck until the end in 1981. The task of the smaller 2 ENO was to deliver parcels. The larger 5 ENOs were used in Vienna for transports between train stations and post offices or between post offices. The 5 ENO were also used as a towing vehicle for parcel trailers.

In Vienna, the ENO vehicles in the post-electric garage in a former riding school were the former Military Riding Teacher Institutes in his left Bahngasse remisiert . There was also a corresponding maintenance and charging infrastructure there .

Whereabouts

A restored copy is on display in the Historama technology museum of the nostalgic railways in Carinthia .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Postrundschau 8/1975
  2. ↑ Post Rundschau 11/1977
  3. ↑ 100 years of electromobility at Austrian Post, 2012, Vienna, Österreichische Post AG
  4. ↑ 100 years of electric Postbuses on Austroclassic, accessed on October 8, 2018
  5. ↑ When the Post-Fox was a snail on Motor.at accessed on October 8, 2018