{"id":1004563,"date":"2026-06-04T09:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1004563\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:32:17","slug":"germany-daimler-delivers-electric-mercedes-benz-ecitaro-buses-to-racktours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1004563\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: Daimler Delivers Electric Mercedes-Benz eCitaro Buses to Racktours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daimler Buses has delivered the first battery-electric buses to Racktours, adding three Mercedes-Benz eCitaro vehicles to its fleet for scheduled passenger services.<\/p>\n<p>Based in Erlensee near Hanau in the German state of Hesse, Racktours will deploy the new vehicles on routes in the Main-Kinzig district under contract with KVG Main-Kinzig.<\/p>\n<p>The buses were handed over in Mannheim to members of the Racktours management team.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7228591\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/26DT108_003-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Racktours takes delivery of its first Mercedes-Benz eCitaro\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1702\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Racktours takes delivery of its first Mercedes-Benz eCitaro<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Daimler Buses<\/p>\n<p>Racktours has acquired more than 21 buses from Daimler Buses during the past five years, with the majority carrying the Mercedes-Benz brand. This latest delivery marks the company\u2019s first use of battery-electric buses and forms part of an ongoing fleet renewal programme.<\/p>\n<p>The three eCitaro buses are 12 metres in length and equipped with the latest generation NMC4 lithium-ion battery technology. Two of the vehicles are fitted with five battery packs, providing a total capacity of 555 kWh. The third vehicle carries six battery packs with a total capacity of 666 kWh.<\/p>\n<p>The buses include a range of driver assistance and safety systems. These include the MirrorCam digital camera system, a reversing camera, interior video monitoring, Sideguard Assist 2, Frontguard Assist, Traffic Sign Recognition and Attention Assist 2, which uses an infrared camera to monitor driver alertness.<\/p>\n<p>Each vehicle is fitted with two charging connections, located above the front section of the bus and near the front axle. The buses have a green exterior finish and blue passenger seating.<\/p>\n<p>    \t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProducts &amp; Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daimler Buses has delivered the first battery-electric buses to Racktours, adding three Mercedes-Benz eCitaro vehicles to its fleet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1004564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[96000,2000,299,1824,2184],"class_list":["post-1004563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-daimler","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-mercedes-benz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1004564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}