The Cost-Effective Deployment of Electric Coaches |

Prof. Glenk has short hair and wears a suit and tie.

The transition to fully electric coaches raises important questions about their practical and economic viability. As part of an industry-led initiative, researchers are examining how such vehicles could be deployed efficiently in real-world transport systems and under which conditions they can compete with conventional alternatives.

In the ELCH (Electrified Coach) project, led by Daimler Buses in collaboration with research institutes and industry partners and supported by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection, the aim is to develop practical and cost-effective fully electric coaches. (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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The Cost-Effective Deployment of Electric Coaches

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