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Interview with Prof. Dr. Gunther Glenk

Under the leadership of Daimler Buses, the aim is to develop practical and economical fully electrically powered coaches in collaboration with renowned research institutes and practitioners from the industry.

For the ELCH (Electrified Coach) project, Daimler Buses has joined forces with renowned research institutes and industry practitioners to accelerate development of fully electric coaches. To this end, the project is also receiving funding from the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection. (You can find further informationen about the ELCH-Project here)

Researchers at the University of Mannheim are to find out how electric coaches could be used economically as part of the project. In an interview, Prof. Dr. Gunther Glenk, junior professor at the Mannheim Institute for Sustainable Energy Studies, talks about the goals of the study and why the economic viability compared to conventional coaches needs to be analyzed in detail in the context of different application models.

Read the full interview (in German) here.

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