Bombardier touts PRIMEMOVE technology
Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-ChiefBombardier on Thursday announced moves to “support future partnerships, projects and opportunities in the fast moving electric mobility sector.” The company is launching BOMBARDIER PrimoveCity, an e-mobility program, along with a “center of excellence to enable the next generation of electric mobility” for all urban vehicles.
Andre Navarri, president, Bombardier Transportation, said: “The aim of the PrimoveCity program is to change the game in electric mobility by providing easy, unlimited emission-free mobility in cities for all types of electric vehicles. Trams, buses, cars, and trucks will be able to operate electrically without catenaries, cables, stops, long waits for batteries to recharge, and,most important, they will be able to share the same infrastructure.
The centre of excellence is at Bombardier’s engineering and manufacturing site in Mannheim, Germany, which will also have a state-of-the-art testing and development facility opening in September.
Bombardier said it has successfully tested PRIMOVE technology with a low-floor tram in Augsburg, Germany, and “is now further trialing the technology with a bus on a 125-meter stretch of road in Belgium.” The success of these initiatives led Bombardier to launch the PrimoveCity program. Tests will begin this summer in automobiles.
