TEMSA introduced its new electric vehicle model, at the IAA Transportation in Hannover. Unveiling Europe’s first electric coach with LD SB E, TEMSA aims to increase the share of electric vehicles in its total production to 50 percent in 3 years.
Operating under the partnership with Sabancı Holding and PPF Group, TEMSA, one of the world’s leading electric bus manufacturers, has taken its place among the rare manufacturers in the world that has made five different electric bus models ready for mass production. At IAA Transportation, TEMSA launched its new electric vehicle model LD SB E. LD SB E, one of the most popular vehicles of the exhibition, which was visited by more than 1,200 companies and thousands of exhibitors from 40 different countries, will make a significant contribution to TEMSA’s electric vehicle range with its high engineering quality and driving comfort.
“SUSTAINABILITY, OUR POLE STAR”
Speaking at the press conference held within the scope of the launch event, TEMSA CEO Tolga Kaan Doğancıoğlu underlined that sustainability and digitalization are the two main decisive trends in the automotive industry and added, “As TEMSA, we are one of the companies that recognized the sustainability and digitalization-oriented transformation in our sector, at the earliest point. While we have been designing our business processes accordingly for many years, we prioritize the two issues by putting our customers at the center.
We support our sustainable growth and also fulfill our sustainability promises and targets by focusing on new opportunity points, particularly electrification. Our electric vehicle range, which we achieved with our LD SB E vehicle, is the most important indicator of the determination of TEMSA on this journey. Today, we are one of the rare companies in the world that has launched five different electric vehicles ready for mass production in different segments. And today, we are also proud to unveil Europe’s first electric coach as an European company, with LD SB E. If you want to go north, the easiest way of it is to follow the pole star. Our north is a more inhabitable, cleaner, and safer world. And our pole star is sustainability. We continue on our way determinedly on this journey. Accordingly, we aim to make one of every two vehicles out of our production facility electric in 2025.”
“WE ARE MUCH STRONGER AND MUCH MORE GLOBAL WITH SABANCI AND PPF”
Hakan Koralp, TEMSA Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, provided the participants with information about the world of TEMSA and said: “TEMSA is a global player that has brought many bus and midibus models to the sector since 1968 and managed to put them on the roads in nearly 70 countries of the world. When it comes to the number of vehicles TEMSA has produced so far in its facility, which is established on an area of 510 thousand square meters, it is over 130 thousand. As of the last quarter of 2020, TEMSA, which operates under the partnership with the Sabancı Holding and the PPF Group is now much stronger and more determined in global markets, together with its sister company Skoda Transportation, particularly with its electrification solutions. Today, we will strengthen that position of TEMSA, which aims to be a leading and exemplary company all around the world in zero-emission vehicles, with new vehicles and new technologies in the forthcoming period.”
“WE ALLOCATE FOUR PERCENT OF OUR TURNOVER TO R&D”
Caner Sevginer, TEMSA Vice President, R&D and Technology, expressed that TEMSA allocates four percent of its turnover to R&D every year and said, “In the world today, the first step in creating an R&D culture is to think about the next move; is to think about tomorrow without being satisfied with today. To analyze what is needed to be a quarterback in the technologies of the future from today and to take a strategic direction accordingly. This is exactly what we have been doing at TEMSA for years. Our work on electric vehicles, energy storage technologies and autonomous vehicles for many years is an indication of this perspective. We develop all these technologies in our R&D center located in our production facility. Today, we have placed electrification at the basis of our work. While focusing on the electrification revolution in the world and developing our solutions for public transportation and transportation, we are also looking for answers to the question of how we can make storage technologies more usable that will open a new page in this revolution. LD SB E is also a result of such studies we have conducted in our R&D center”.
It can reach a range of 350 kilometers.
- LD SB E launched at Hannover IAA Transportation can be offered to consumers in two different options as 12 or 13 meters.
- The vehicle, which has a passenger capacity of 63 people, shows the expected performance in all road conditions thanks to its electric motor with a power of 250 kW.
- Offers 3 different battery capacity options, 210, 280 and 350 kWh, and the range of LDSB E can reach up to 350 kilometers under appropriate conditions.
- Available up to 2 hours with 150 kWh DC Charger
- With the Full Digital Instrument Panel all driving-related information can be easily followed.
- The positioning of most of the vehicle’s electrical components in the same area also provides substantial convenience in the vehicle’s servicing and maintenance.
It launched two new electric buses first in the US and then in Europe
TEMSA, which has been operating under the partnership of the Sabancı Holding and the PPF Group (Skoda Transportation) for the last two years, has launched five different electric vehicle models ready for mass production as of today. In recent months, TEMSA launched the TS 45E model, which it had tailor-made specifically for the US market. TS 45E, which was subject to test drives in Silicon Valley, where the world’s most important technology companies are located, for about two years, was presented to the market after successfully completing all those tests. Accordingly, TEMSA launched two new electric vehicles in the last six months.