After the devastating fire in a bus depot in Düsseldorf in April, the investigators do not assume that an electric bus was the cause. The Rheinbahn is therefore sticking to its e-strategy.
Again and again there are fires in bus depots in large cities – including in Düsseldorf at the beginning of April: 38 Rheinbahn buses were destroyed in the fire, the damage was almost 50 million euros. But electric buses were probably not the cause of the fire, as a fire report now shows, about which the “Rheinische Post” reports.
According to this, the fire alarm was already activated when the e-buses were still charging their batteries and only stopped this process later due to overheating. So the fire must have broken out in another part of the depot – where diesel buses were also parked.
Düsseldorf: Rheinbahn sticks to e-strategy
In August it had burned in an electric bus depot in Hanover, then two weeks ago Another devastating fire at a Stuttgart depot: 25 vehicles were destroyed here, the trigger here may be a technical defect on an e-bus. In Munich, eight buses of the same type have therefore been shut down for the time being.
There had also been rumors in Düsseldorf that an electric bus might have been responsible for the fire – these have now been refuted for the Rheinbahn. Unlike the vehicle that may have caused the fire in Stuttgart, the e-buses in the state capital are also buses from other manufacturers. In addition, the e-fleet of the Rheinbahn was severely decimated in the fire in April: only four of the former twelve buses are left.
The Rheinbahn is sticking to the strategy of relying even more on e-buses, the “Rheinische Post” continues: According to this, they want to buy 60 e-vehicles from the money that the insurance company pays for the fire in April ten hydrogen-powered.
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