{"id":31399,"date":"2024-06-07T11:37:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T09:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-bus.com\/?p=31399"},"modified":"2024-06-07T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T11:39:08","slug":"anja-wenmakers-swb-bonn-interview-electrification-public-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-bus.com\/interview\/anja-wenmakers-swb-bonn-interview-electrification-public-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"Anja Wenmakers, SWB Bonn: “We cannot achieve electrification without funding”. Our interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
We discussed with Anja Wenmakers<\/strong>, that besides being the managing director of SWB acts also as Board Member in VDV<\/strong>, the main challenges the company is facing today, with a deep dive into how financing<\/strong> (and the lack of it), strong competition, shortage of staff<\/strong> are shaping the present and future of mobility in Germany (and not only). A future that will see a growing role of sharing services, such as the goFlux, a local startup that is operating a digital rideshare platform together with SWB, with the goal of increasing the load factor of private cars supplementing (and not replacing!) the public transport offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seven e-buses in operation as of today, 10 more coming in 2025 (Mercedes eCitaro) <\/strong>and 40 more set for tendering in 2024 (and operational by 2026). The electrification’s offensive of SWB Bonn<\/strong> is on its way, with the goal of phasing out all diesel city buses by 2035<\/strong>. But concerns and inputs by the Bonn-based carrier represent a good sumup of those of small-medium municipally-owned public transport companies around Germany.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n