The electric vehicle procurement is part of a broader plan by the city of Zagreb to acquire a total of 500 electric buses over ten years, thereby fully electrifying the ZET fleet. After only two electric buses from German manufacturer MAN entered service last October, the newly procured 62 units represent a significantly larger step and a true milestone.
The electric bus models that MAN has now deployed are 30 solo electric buses of the Lion’s City 12E type and 26 articulated electric buses of the Lion’s City 18E type. In addition, there are six midi electric buses from Iveco with a body by the Serbian company Feniksbus. These bear the designation Iveco Feniksbus FBI 83 ME.
The buses have an expected range under optimal conditions of at least 500 kilometres for the solo buses, 450 kilometres for the articulated buses, and 260 kilometres for the midi buses. This allows the buses to operate for an entire workday without intermediate charging, with overnight charging taking place at the new electric bus depot.
The total purchase price amounts to almost €56.8 million. Of this, €45.4 million was provided with EU funds from the NRRP (National Recovery and Resilience Plan) in collaboration with the Croatian Ministry of Sea, Transport, and Infrastructure, while €11.4 million was financed from the budget of the city of Zagreb.
