EvoBus

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EvoBus GmbH

Type	GmbH
Industry	Automotive
Founded	23 February 1995
Headquarters	Stuttgart, Germany
Key people	Till Oberwörder
Products	Buses and Coaches
Brands	Mercedes-Benz buses, Setra
Number of employees	17,899 (2016)
Parent
Website	evobus.com [1]

EvoBus GmbH is a German bus and coach manufacturer headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany and a wholly owned subsidiary of . Its products go to market under the brands Setra or Mercedes-Benz.

Mercedes-Benz Sprinter City 35 minibus built in 2011

History[]

In 1995, the bus division of Daimler-Benz AG and bus manufacturer Karl Kässbohrer Fahrzeugwerke GmbH amalgamated under the umbrella of EvoBus. Mercedes-Benz brought in more than 100 years of experience in the bus and coach industry, starting with the invention of the omnibus by Karl Benz in 1895 in Mannheim.

EvoBus is headquartered in Stuttgart in Germany, with its largest bus factory in Mannheim in Germany. Licensed buses are also manufactured in Turkey. The city buses, for instance the Citaro, are manufactured in Mannheim, as are the chassis (meaning the frame plus the "running gear" like engine, transmission, driveshaft, differential, and suspension). A body (sometimes referred to as "coachwork"), is built on the chassis to complete the coaches in Ulm/Neu-Ulm, where the final assembly takes place. Other factories of EvoBus are in Ligny-en-Barrois in France and in Sámano in Spain.

Its product portfolio include:

• Bus-specific service ranging from insurance and consulting to concepts for financing and the procurement of original parts and accessories.
• Sales network for new and used vehicles in Europe,
• Service network

In 2016, EvoBus had a workforce of 17,899 employees.^{[citation needed]}

Innovations[]

In April 1951, Setra introduced a coach with self-supporting structure.

By 1955 the company demonstrated a coach with the first independent air suspension at the German Motor Show in Frankfurt.

Since the 1990s, EvoBus has been experimenting with hydrogen fuel cells to use hydrogen as a primary source of power for the locomotion of buses.

See also[]

• Daimler AG
• Mercedes-Benz buses
• Setra
• Seida

References[]

• Article in Industry Europe

External links[]

• Official company website
• Mercedes-Benz Buses
• Mercedes-Benz Turkey
• Mercedes-Benz Argentina
• Setra website
• Setra USA
• EvoBus South-East Europe & Central Asia
• EvoBus France