MAN Truck & Bus exhibited a broad portfolio of city and intercity buses, coaches and minibuses, with buses from both the MAN and NEOPLAN brands. The company’s premières included the Lion’s City 19, the Lion’s Intercity with a D15 engine, and the eTGE Combi and TGE City minibuses. Also, the all-electric MAN Lion’s City E was offered to the public for test-driving for the very first time.
MAN Lion’s City
MAN’s answer to the current questions around urban mobility is Lion’s City. With its new generation of city buses, MAN can offer efficient and environmentally friendly solutions for urban transport – tailored to the individual needs of every customer and to meet market requirements. At Busworld, MAN exhibited a 12-metre solo version of its all-electric Lion’s City E, which comes with 35 seats. The e-bus completes this new generation of city buses – also available with diesel, natural gas and hybrid propulsion – with its emissions-free drive. The most obvious differences are the absence of the engine tower, the position of the batteries on the roof and the 4 additional seating places that this creates in the rear. In the solo bus, the all-electric driveline can produce an output of between 160 kW and a maximum of 270 kW. As a result, the Lion’s City E can be relied upon to provide a range of 200 km, or up to 270 km in good conditions, across the entire service life of the batteries.
Also exhibited by MAN for the very first time was the Lion’s City 19 EfficientHybrid – the new conventional brother within the family of city buses. The bus spans 18.75 metres in length and sees MAN growing its new generation of scheduled-service buses with an appealingly cost-efficient solution for inner-city transportation. In the three-axle trade fair display vehicle, there is space to seat 38 passengers – four more than in a Lions City 18 with a similar configuration. A highly efficient D1556 LOH diesel engine with 360 hp (265 kW) powers the vehicle and, like all internal combustion engines presented by MAN, meets the Euro 6d emissions standard that took effect from September 1, 2019. If equipped with MAN EfficientHybrid, the bus becomes an even more economical and environmentally friendly solution. The stop-start function ensures that the vehicle is also near silent and emissions-free when it stops.
MAN Lion’s Intercity
With the Lion’s Intercity, MAN exhibited the ideal solution for intercity and school bus transportation. Boasting up to 53 “Intercity Lite” seats, the bus on show had plenty of room for passengers. At the show, MAN presented the intercity bus for the first time with a new D1556 LOH engine – the vehicle on show had 360 hp (265 kW). The highly efficient 9-litre engine – which is available for the Lion’s Intercity alongside the tried-and-tested D08 – comes with 280, 330 and 360 hp power levels.
Expanded minibus range
As well as the MAN TGE Intercity intended for intercity transportation, which premièred at the IAA 2018, MAN exhibited two new minibus designs at Busworld: the MAN eTGE Combi and the MAN TGE City. The eTGE Combi is the first fully electrically powered minibus amongst MAN’s range of buses. The e-minibus is based on the series-produced MAN eTGE electric van and has been approved for a passenger capacity of up to eight people. To save space, the batteries of the fully electrically powered eTGE Combi are built in underneath the slightly raised floor. In theory, they should enable a range of up to 173 kilometres (NEDC), or 114 kilometres (WLTP).
The MAN TGE City, a further highlight at the trade fair stand, was also based on the TGE van. The low-floor platform with its city-friendly door concept, especially developed for the TGE City, can be equipped as needed with fold-up seats, wheelchair and pushchair spaces, standing places or fixed seating places.
Also on display at the MAN pavilion were its Lion’s Coach and two NEOPLAN Tourliners with ‘The World of Hans Zimmer’, transporting fantastic music to the whole of Europe with their unique movingART design.