This nimble electric bus designed to reduce strain on public transport can almost entirely drive itself and 15 passengers around. — dpa
This nimble electric bus designed to reduce strain on public transport can almost entirely drive itself and 15 passengers around.
Two German tech companies have made headlines at the CES tech fair in Las Vegas after they presented their fully electric minibus designed to help reduce traffic in cities.
The e.GO Mover bus was co-created with ZF Friedrichshafen and the start-up e.GO Mobile, both based in Germany.
The vehicle can fit up to 15 people, with ten seats and five places for people to stand, while also being around the same size as a regular limousine.
"This makes it agile and it can get through a city everywhere," the company says. The bus is also almost entirely autonomous, and could be adapted to become completely driverless in the future – giving way for at least one other space.
The company's founder, Guenther Schuh, a professor at a university in Aachen, already helped create an electric van, the StreetScooter, which is now being produced by a subsidiary of Germany's postal service, Deutsche Post.
At CES, the companies announced that the e.GO Mover had been bought by French company Transdev, which is one of the world's biggest mobility providers. The first trial production is scheduled to begin in May, and full serial production in Aachen is set for 2021. – dpa
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