There won’t be an enormous handover occasion in three years, at which Designwerk will ship all 26 autos in a single go. As an alternative, the LOW CAB Gather 6x2R 450E waste assortment autos from Designwerk will likely be handed over to town as soon as they’ve been accomplished, based on Designwerk. This ought to be the case for the twenty sixth automobile on the finish of 2027.
Nonetheless, there isn’t a point out of when the primary automobile will likely be handed over to town of Zurich. For now, Designwerk has gained the corresponding tender. There have been some challenges that went past the pure e-drive. For instance, town stipulated within the tender that the autos ought to have the shortest doable wheelbase with a view to cope higher in tight visitors. Designwerk was in a position to provide a automobile with a wheelbase of simply 3.45 meters – a “distinctive promoting level” based on the corporate.
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Regardless of the small wheelbase, Designwerk can set up a battery capability of 450 kilowatt hours within the LOW CAB Gather 6x2R 450E – as might be seen from the mannequin identify. The scale of the battery was chosen with foresight: The 450 kWh ought to due to this fact be adequate to make sure all-day operation within the chilly season with out intermediate charging even after ten years of use (with corresponding degradation).
The 26 refuse assortment autos are every charged by way of two on-board chargers put in on the automobile with a complete charging capability of 44 kilowatts (AC). This prices the batteries slowly in a single day.
“Profitable this tender confirms our technological management in industrial autos, which aren’t “off-the-shelf” and more and more stand out from OEM sequence autos,” says Reto Schmid, Gross sales Supervisor E-LKW Europe South at Designwerk Applied sciences AG. “Because of our flexibility and our nice depth of information and manufacturing, we’re in a position to meet the more and more complicated necessities positioned on autos.”
The client, town of Zurich, dedicated to a extra sustainable automobile and transport coverage again in 2008. For the Division of Waste Administration + Recycling of the Metropolis of Zurich (ERZ), which means the complete ERZ fleet is to be purely electrically powered by 2032. Zurich has already relied on Designwerk as a associate for electrification prior to now. The primary automobile for ERZ was handed over in 2020, adopted by ten extra totally electrical waste assortment autos with low-floor cabs in 2023.
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