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Osnabrück: By 2025, the share of electric buses is expected to be 94%.
Osnabrück is one of the pioneers in Germany regarding the shift to alternative drives in public transport. Starting from summer 2025, an additional 19 electric solo buses are expected to be delivered successively. This will increase the electric share of the bus fleet to 94%. Out of 86 buses, only five will still be running on diesel. Currently, Stadtwerke Osnabrück already operate 62 electric articulated buses – and this is just five years after the "turning point" in public transport in the fourth-largest city of Lower Saxony, when on March 30, 2019, the first 13 electric articulated buses began operating on the then-new MetroBus line M1.
3.6 million locally emission-free kilometers per year
The current E-bus fleet in Osnabrück excels particularly in technical availability and sustainability metrics. Each year, the 62 vehicles now travel approximately 3.6 million locally emission-free kilometers. For each E-bus, a diesel bus was decommissioned; the annual CO2 savings amount to around 2,100 tons.
55° Temperature Span
Furthermore, the e-articulated buses are on par with diesel buses in terms of technical availability – and handle all of Osnabrück's weather challenges.
“Whether at 39.5 degrees in July 2019, at minus 15.9 degrees in February 2021, or at wind force 12 in February 2022 – it hardly affects our electric buses,” explains SWO Mobil Managing Director André Kränzke.
Technically, the operation functions almost smoothly and without disruptions.
“We have been able to dispel and continue to dispel the concerns and worries expressed at the time.”
Background: E-buses in Osnabrück
In March 2019, the first 13 e-articulated buses from Dutch manufacturer VDL started operating on line M1. At the end of 2020, another 22 e-articulated buses followed on lines M2 and M3, and around the turn of the year 2021/2022, another 27 e-articulated buses on lines M5 and M4. Since early 2022, all five MetroBus lines have been operated exclusively electrically. The e-articulated buses are charged at fast-charging stations at the respective terminals as well as at the municipal utility depot.
What does this mean?
Osnabrück proves that the complete conversion of the public transport fleet to e-buses is possible economically, technically, and not least organizationally. The timing of the local utility company was excellent: While the industry suffers from the expiry of e-bus subsidies, Osnabrück has essentially already "completed" their fleet conversion and can hope to manage future orders of e-buses due to lower operating costs and falling e-bus and battery prices, even without subsidies.
Translated automatically from German.
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