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1,000,000 km achieved by battery-powered trolleybus<\/a><\/strong> fleet in Montreux<\/strong> (Switzerland). The vehicles are equipped with Kiepe Electric IMC500 technology for off-wire operations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

16 Van Hool Exqui.City IMC<\/strong> trolleybuses have so far totaled 1,000,000 kilometers. The e-bus fleet at Lake Geneva is equipped with the IMC500 technology and was delivered between November 2019 and December 2020<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to the capability for operations without overhead lines, it has been possible to extend line 201 in Montreux to the new Chablais Riviera regional hospital. This overhead line-free route is quite short, thus a small battery could be installed in the buses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Italy, from mid-2022, a consortium of Kiepe Electric and Van Hool is to supply six zero-emission\u00a018-meter Exqui.City<\/strong>\u00a0trolleybuses with IMC technology to Pescara public transportation operators TUA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1,000,000 km achieved by battery-powered trolleybus fleet in Montreux (Switzerland). The vehicles are equipped with Kiepe Electric IMC500 technology for off-wire operations. 16 Van Hool Exqui.City IMC trolleybuses have so far totaled 1,000,000 kilometers. The e-bus fleet at Lake Geneva is equipped with the IMC500 technology and was delivered between November 2019 and December 2020. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[335],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n1,000,000 km achieved by battery-trolleybus fleet in Montreux (Switzerland) - Sustainable Bus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"1,000,000 km achieved by battery-powered trolleybus fleet in Montreux (Switzerland). 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