Daimler Buses installs charging facilities at Mannheim plant
By Jim Gibbins - 1st September 2019
Germany – Daimler Buses, a division of Daimler AG of Stuttgart, has installed new charging facilities at its Mannheim plant in preparation for the market launch of high-output charging.
Owing to space shortages at the plant, the new structure is mounted on pillars and forms a bridge. This is equipped with six charging units suspended five metres above the ground. supplied from two different manufacturers – four are for conventional cable connected plug-in units, which charge at up to 150kW and the other two are rapid charge units delivering 300kW. One of the rapid chargers is a conventional pantograph system and the other is an inverted pantograph which lowers to charge the bus via roof-mounted charging rails. Its total connection power is 1.2 megawatts.
