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The main company of public transport of Barcelona (TMB) purchases five hybrid buses Iveco

11/06/2013

11 June 2013

Transports Metropolitans of Barcelona (TMB), the main operator of public transport of the Catalan capital, finishes to sign an agreement with Iveco Bus to purchase five buses Citelis Hybrid, that will deliver before 30 November of this year and will incorporate to his current fleet, that already has near of 300 buses Iveco Bus.

All the units have a length of 12 metres and three doors of access. They instrument the hybrid technology of series, that combines an engine Tector diesel of 6 litres of small cilindrada, manufactured by FPT Industrial, with an engine-electrical generator that recovers the power accumulated during the deceleración. The engine of electrical traction, with a power of 120 kW (175 kW of beak) and fed by batteries of ion-lithium of high capacity, acts directly on the axis motriz, by what the buses do not need box of changes. On the other hand, the engine diesel of 5,9 litres reaches a maximum power of 300 horses and fulfils the rule of broadcasts EEV.

The hybrid buses of Iveco Bus achieve a reduction of the broadcasts and of the consumption of until 35%.

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The new Citelis Hybrid of TMB explain also with a system of recovery of power in the braked and with the systems Stop&Start, for the reduction of consumption in the stops, HillHolder, of retention of the vehicle in slopes, and Override that, when it is necessary, allows that the vehicle circulate in way entirely electrical.

The hybrid buses of Iveco Bus contribute to the quality of the air in the cities because his consumption and broadcasts of CO₂ are between 25% and 35% inferior to the ones of an engine diesel. Considering an annual utilisation of 50.000 km (average in the urban buses), this means a reduction of 25 tonnes of CO₂ launched to the atmosphere in a year.

The Citelis is one of the best technical solutions for the respectful urban transport with the environingingment. These vehicles, with normative EEV, constitute a real and reliable alternative to improve, simultaneously, the broadcasts of NO_x and the acoustics. Thanks to the isolation of the compartment of the engine, of the frame of the doors and of the flat, achieves an excellent soundproofing of the habitáculo.

Founded in 1979, TMB is the main operator of public transport community of the metropolitan area of Barcelona and manages the networks of metre and buses, as well as the tourist services of the Barcelona Bus Turístic, the Ropeway of Montjuïc and the Tramvia Blau. The past year loaned service to around 550 million travellers.

The service of buses of TMB operates 102 urban lines in Barcelona and in other 10 municipalities of the metropolitan area, that in 2012 transported to 180 million travellers.

At present the company has a fleet of 1.072 vehicles, of which more than a third are Iveco Bus. Inside a pioneering project of environingingmental reconversion of the fleet, 70 of these buses have transformed in hybrids.