In Sweden will appear a city bus with natural fur interior

The harsh winter forced the bus manufacturers to resort to very creative solutions in interior design of their city cars.

City bus with natural fur in the cabin – just such a machine can be seen on the stand of Scania at the recent international salon Busworld Europe Kortrijk 2017.

It turns out that the presented low-floor city bus Scania CityWide LF is intended for trial operation in the Swedish city of östersund, in which winters are particularly severity.

And experience is what. It turns out that a city bus Scania CityWide LF operates solely on electricity. Operation at very low temperatures – one of the stages of testing a new electric bus Scania.

Six of these vehicles will drive around town, from winter 2017 to summer 2021. Machine will operate on the route length of 14 km, making 100 trips each day. To make passengers feel comfortable a few seats in the cabin, as well as space for fixing wheelchairs studded natural fur.

As for the technical stuffing, the Scania CityWide LF is equipped with an electric motor with a maximum output of 295 kW (2100 Nm) and a rated power of 220 kW (1300 Nm). Transmission – two-stage. Motor feed lithium-ion batteries by 150 kW.h. at 650V. The batteries charge is at the last stop via a pantograph on the roof. The line capacity is 300 kW. As for the charging station SS, it has a capacity of 22 kW. The charging process lasts from 3 to 6 minutes, which is enough that the bus drove for about 10 km.

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