MAN to present updates to the electric bus range at UITP Summit in Hamburg

The MAN Lion’s City 10 E with new features for the 2025 model year (first and foremost: new battery generation from MAN’s own production facility in Nuremberg) will be the main topic at the group’s stand at year’s UITP Summit in Hamburg.

The 10.5 meter long eBus is equipped with two doors, innovative assistance systems and four battery packs with an installed capacity of 356 kWh. With 27 seats and 54 standing places, it has a similar passenger capacity to many 12-meter buses, but requires less traffic space and is much more manoeuvrable, the group highlights.

MAN new batteries at the UITP Summit

Batteries from the new generation, MAN states, “are more efficient, lighter and has a higher energy density and improved depth of discharge. As a result, the city bus requires fewer battery packs despite the range remaining the same or even increasing – which creates space for more passengers. Also, up to 96 percent of the batteries, which can cover a total of 1 million kilometers over a service life of up to 14 years, can be recycled”.

Series production of the battery system, which will be installed in all future eBuses and eTrucks, has been ramping up at the MAN plant in Nuremberg since April. More information will be provided on June 18 at 11:30 a.m. in the expert presentation “The new MAN battery pack – lifelong energy, one reliable partner” by Christoph Matousek, Launch Manager Bus at MAN.

“Hamburg is a special place for us, as this is where our eBus success story began at the end of 2019 with the first handover of two MAN Lion’s City E buses,” says Heinz Kiess, Head of Product Marketing Bus at MAN Truck & Bus, adding: ”Today, over 2,500 of our eBuses are in operation throughout Europe. We are therefore all the more pleased that the Lion’s City E with the new MAN BatteryPack is making its debut here.”

“Visitors will experience smart solutions for the urban transport of today and tomorrow. The focus is on our Lion’s City E, which is setting new standards with the 2025 update,” says Robert Katzer, Head of Sales & Product Bus at MAN Truck & Bus.