Germany, Munich
MAN Nutzfahrzeuge has landed two major natural gas bus sales with a value ‘in the three-digit million euros’. The city of Ankara has ordered a further 500 MAN Lion’s Classic natural-gas buses (CNG, Compressed Natural Gas) while 135 MAN Lion’s City buses are headed for The Hague.
MAN Nutzfahrzeuge Group’s Turkish sales company, MAN Kamyon ve Otobüs Ticaret A.Åž., first won an invitation to tender from the municipal transport authority EGO for 490 vehicles in 2006. The buses for the second order are to be delivered between November 2008 and September 2009.
In The Hague the city authorities (Haaglanden) and operator HTM Personenvervoer NV have opted for MAN buses for the first time. Recently an order was placed for a total of 135 MAN Lion’s City low-floor buses with natural-gas-fired induction engine. The engines already meet voluntary EEV exhaust-gas standard (since 1999) andthe vehicles already comply with Haaglanden’s strict requirements on oxides of nitrogen – this was one of the criteria for obtaining subsidies for purchase of these new buses.
The MAN E 2866 DUH04 induction engine, which is rated at 245 hp, has extremely low pollutant and noise emissions. Delivery of the vehicles will be split between 2009, 2010 and 2011.
Since 1992 MAN has been a pioneer in EEV, the voluntary exhaust-gas standard which is stricter than Euro 5, and claims market leadership in natural-gas buses. To date some 4,000 complete buses with this drive system have been sold. Beside the MAN Lion’s Classic and the Lion’s City low-floor bus almost all solo and articulated buses are available with natural-gas drive. The 245 hp natural-gas engine in the buses for The Hague theoretically even complies with the provisional Euro 6 figures, which are expected to become obligatory in 2013.
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