Fleet test set for the new Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid Bus

摘要

According to a statement from Mercedes-Benz, the company's Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid will be released for fleet tests in June 2009. "... Mercedes-Benz Buses will soon be extensively monitoring its performance in normal operations within the framework of a major fleet test in several European cities. This test series will proceed along the lines of the successful CUTE fleet test conducted by the European Union between 2003 und 2006. Since 2003, a total of 36 Mercedes-Benz, Citaro buses equipped with fuel cell drives have performed outstandingly at 12 public transport agencies on three continents as part of the CUTE test, its HyFLEET:CUTE follow-up project, and other related testing programs."