PHOTOS: Brand-new, Hungarian-made articulated e-buses will serve passengers from 2025
The brand-new Credobus Electronell 18 will be the first articulated e-bus manufactured in Győr and Mosonmagyaróvár. The first bus was presented at Budapest’s Népliget bus station. Check out some photos in our article below.
According to Világgazdaság, the Kravtex-Kühne group presented its latest innovation in cooperation with Volánbusz at the Népliget bus station in Budapest. The lightweight vehicle’s own mass is 4 tonnes lower than that of a traditional articulated bus. It has fewer battery modules, and its operation is more economical than its competitors’. Volánbusz is to test the first Electronell model at the beginning of 2025.
Kravtex-Kühne presented the first model in cooperation with the Hungarian state-owned Volánbusz company at the Népliget bus station in Budapest on 18 December. Lóránd Bói, a deputy secretary of the Ministry of Construction and Transport, said it was their utmost priority to serve passengers with modern vehicles.
He added they could reduce the average age of the vehicles from 13 to 10 years. Kravtex-Kühne played a key part in that project since more than half of the active buses were manufactured by that company.
Dr István Krankovics, the CEO of Kravtex Ltd, said the R+D behind the buses cost HUF 1.5 billion (EUR 3.63 million), but HUF 400 million (EUR 967,000) was covered by state support.
He added that the Kravtex-Kühne group is a market leader in Hungary, manufacturing 3,000 buses. He expressed their readiness to participate in the Hungarian public transport system’s electrification.
State support for articulated e-buses
László Kormányos, the technological and operational deputy CEO of the MÁV and Volánbusz conglomerate, said 100 e-buses arrived in the agglomeration of Budapest in 2022 and 2023, but only 6 to the rural cities. In 2025, they plan to deliver 20 more e-buses in six smaller settlements.
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