MAN 3-door Electric Bus for Singapore

MAN, ST Engineering Mobility Services and Gemilang Coachworks will deliver an electric low-floor, three-door city bus for the Singapore market by 2023, likely of the MAN Lion’s City E model. This bus is built on the MAN Lion’s Chassis E LF chassis and assembled in Malaysia by Gemilang Coachworks. The name of the final vehicle is to be confirmed.

This is MAN’s first foray into Singapore’s electric bus scene and comes at a time when the Land Transport Authority (LTA) is preparing to rapidly electrify the public bus fleet. Half of all public buses will be electric by 2030, which is about 3,000 buses. As for ST Engineering, it previously delivered 20 Linkker LM312 electric buses to Singapore in partnership with Gemilang Coachworks, and also delivered a diesel-to-electric bus conversion project in 2021.

Chassis Background

First announced in June 2022, the MAN Lion’s Chassis E is the first fully-electric bus chassis offered by MAN Truck & Bus, incorporating proven technologies from the MAN Lion’s City E integral bus which had been in series production since late 2020. In October 2022, the chassis was unveiled for the first time at the Australasia Bus & Coach Expo held in Sydney.

MAN will initially offer the all-electric chassis as a two-axle vehicle for low-floor (Lion’s Chassis E LF), low-entry (Lion’s Chassis E LE) and high-floor (Lion’s Chassis E HF) applications, all of which are available in left- and right-hand drive. This flexibility caters to a wide range of overseas markets outside of Europe. The chassis will be produced at MAN’s plant in Starachowice, Poland.

Furthermore, two types of traction batteries are offered: lithium nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) familiar to the Lion’s City E, and a new offering of lithium ferrophosphate (LFP). MAN says that this is to meet different requirements of international bus companies in terms of daily range, total kilometre performance and costs. MAN is also building large-scale battery manufacturing facilities in Nuremberg to support its electric bus and truck offerings.

Finally, in its October 2022 press release, MAN says that it is working with its worldwide network of coachbuilders to deliver the first assembled demo vehicles by as early as 2023. In addition, these buses are expected to be evaluated on performance and functionality in their target markets, such as Australia, and likely Singapore as well.

Singapore market

In November 2022, MAN Truck & Bus Malaysia and Gemilang Coachworks showcased a partially completed unit at Gemilang’s plant in Senai, Johor. Both companies expressed optimism in supplying the regional market with these electric buses, with MAN Malaysia adding that it planned to assemble the eBus chassis locally to improve its price competitiveness.

For the Singapore market, the low-floor variant (MAN Lion’s Chassis E LF) will be used and configured with three passenger doors in line with the latest LTA requirements for public buses.

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Technical Specifications

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See Also:

• Electric Buses in Singapore
• Bus Models

Other 3-Door electric buses in Singapore:

• BYD B12
• CRRC TEG6125BEV03
• LexSWITCH E12 SD
• Linkker LM312
• Volvo BZL – SC Neustar City
• Zhongtong LCK6126EVG

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References:

• MAN Starts Series Production Of The All-Electric Lion City E (insideevs.com)
• Electric bus solutions for the global market: MAN drives forward sustainable mobility (mantruckandbus.com)
• Down Under: MAN Lion’s Chassis E celebrates world premiere in Sydney (mantruckandbus.com)
• 12336_MAN_eMobility_Broschuere_E_screen03.pdf (neoplan.se)
• MAN Malaysia Offers eBus Electric Bus Chassis From 2023 – Auto News – Caricarz
• MAN Malaysia showcases electric city bus chassis to drive sustainable mobility in Malaysian public transport sector (nst.com.my)