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Vancouver orders 228 trolleybuses /Vossloh Kiepe's share worth around €70 million
Vossloh Kiepe GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vossloh AG, has booked one of the biggest orders in its history: together with the Canadian urban transit bus builder New Flyer Industries, the Düsseldorf-based company will be delivering altogether 228 ultramodern low-floor trolleybuses to the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority. Vossloh Kiepe's share of the contract is worth €70 million.
For the 188 forty-foot rigid and the 40 sixty-foot articulated trolleybuses, Vossloh Kiepe is supplying the electric propulsion system including the drive, trolley pole, plus the insulation controls required for trolleys. These modern vehicles will also have a battery bank to allow travel without overhead wire for short periods.
The 188 buses are due for delivery at the start of 2008 in good time for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In fact, Vossloh Kiepe has a tradition of supplying Olympic venues with trolleybuses: Innsbruck, Lausanne, Mexico City and Athens for which 142 vehicles are presently being built in time for this year's summer games.
For 55 years now Vancouver has been running eco-friendly trolley fleets whose electricity is derived from a renewable resource close by. With overhead wires stretching more than 300 km, Vancouver's trolley operation is Canada's longest and among the biggest in North America, rivaling those of Mexico City, San Francisco, and Seattle, all of which already use electrical equipment or trolley pole systems made by Vossloh Kiepe.
Düsseldorf/Werdohl, January 26, 2004
For more information contact:
Christiane Konrad, Vossloh AG, phone (+49-2392) 52249