Daimler Buses to Offer Only CO2-Neutral City Buses in Europe by 2030

Daimler Buses aims to offer only CO2-neutral vehicles based on batteries and hydrogen in every segment by 2030. The initial focus will be on the core markets of Europe and Latin America.

Daimler Buses plans to launch the first all-electric inter-city bus from 2025, and coaches with hydrogen-based fuel cell drive from the end of this decade. 

Starting in 2023, Daimler Buses will also equip its previously purely battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eCitaro city bus, which has been in series production since 2018, with a hydrogen-based fuel cell as a range extender.

Therefore, Daimler Buses is adding a vehicle with a range of up to 400 kilometers (solo bus) to its all-electric product portfolio in the city bus segment. 

The company is also expanding its service offerings as a general contractor for customers’ complete electric infrastructure. 

Till Oberwörder, Head of Daimler Buses, says: “As a worldwide leading bus manufacturer, our ambition is clear: We want to make a contribution to contending climate change and be a driver of the change in transportation that is needed to achieve this. To this end, we are pursuing a clear electrification strategy and putting buses with alternative drive technologies on the road in series production. We want to offer locally CO2-neutral powertrains for each of our segments in our most important markets by 2030 and therefore make a clear commitment: from 2030 at the latest, we will only offer CO2-neutral new vehicles in the city bus segment in Europe and will not invest in Euro VII technology. We are focusing our development efforts entirely on the zero-emission and fully electrically powered eCitaro.”

Dr. Volker Wissing, Germany’s Federal Minster for Digital and Transport, adds: “To achieve our climate goals, we need more zero-emission vehicles. We actively support public transport companies to decarbonise their fleets and provide them with the corresponding infrastructure. We have earmarked a total of 1.25 billion Euro for this purpose. Our goal: by 2030, every second city bus should be electrified.”

In 2021, almost every second all-electric city bus newly sold in Germany came from Daimler Buses.