Athens, Greece

As the Olympic Games are to take place in Athens in 2004, the Athens transport authority ILPAP decided to purchase new, reliable trolleybuses with Kiepe traction equipment, which are to provide environment-friendly public transport.

91 low-floor solo trolleybuses and 51 articulated low-floor trolleybuses of the type series N6216 and N6221 meet all the requirements for passenger and operator friendliness.
The new low-floor vehicles are based on a Neoplan design, the interior is from the Greek firm of ELBO.

Besides stronger air conditioning and heating the new vehicle generation has got kneeling and a boarding ramp for passengers restricted in their mobility. The technical appearance is completed by a VDV driver´s workplace with information display, fully automatic current collectors and a state-of-the-art, 100 kW strong diesel generator with an Euro III engine so that the trolleybus can also be operated out of the current collector zone.
Electronic data messages on a CANopen basis are to reduce the cabling and thus to eliminate interference sources and save weight for the traction equipment and the subsystems.

Moreover, a comfortable and efficient diagnostic system is available, which can be operated via PC. The compact Kiepe drive container has been fitted on the roof of the trolleybus. This container is easily accessible for maintenance and safely protected in case of traffic accidents. It is made of aluminium and includes the most important electronic units for the traction and the on-board power supply. The modern technology also offers ABS and TCS as well as automatic hill holding and allows powerful driving up to a maximum speed of 65 km/h, at which it is limited electronically.

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