Hyundai introduced the first electric double Decker

30 May 2019

The largest Korean manufacturer of commercial vehicles wants to challenge the monopoly of the Chinese on double Decker buses

Hyundai Motor presented yesterday at the South Korean fair land, infrastructure and transport technology double Decker bus, designed to reduce congestion and air pollution in major cities.
Length of electrodub-Decker is 12.9 m and a height of 3.99 m. of the 70 seats 11 located on the lower floor, and 59 on the second. Although Hyundai does not mention about the total capacity of the vehicle subject to standing passengers, but the Koreans claim that the total Seating capacity exceeds the new 81-seater buses competing brand BYD. Automatic sliding ramp facilitates access to the interior of passengers in wheelchairs. For them there are two special places.
Brand new electric buses featuring high-performance polymer battery with water cooling capacity of 384 kWh, providing a maximum cruising range on a single charge 300 km Full charge (speed) can be completed in 72 minutes. The bus, incidentally, all-wheel drive (!) two of its three axes equipped with a 240-kilowatt electric motors, and suspension of front axle made independent. Moreover, both ends of the bridge are controlled, which greatly facilitates maneuvering on the narrow and busy streets of big cities.

The team leader of the advanced development of commercial vehicles at Hyundai Motor Byung Woo Hwang said, "double Decker electric bus is an eco-friendly vehicle is optimized in the spirit of global environmental trends. Ultimately, it will not only improve air quality in cities, but will contribute to relieving road traffic in the daytime by taking on more passenger traffic."
The bus, of course, equipped with the advanced package of safety systems, such as collision avoidance systems (FCA), which uses the front camera of the bus to detect a collision and prevent or minimize damage due to automatic emergency braking. There is also a control system for lane and dynamic management.
Drafting the first double-Decker buses with the support of the government of the Republic of Korea took the company Hyundai Motor 18 months.