Van Hool Exqui.City @ Trondheim Norway

[@milestone_achiever4634]

Beautiful, stylish, sleek, bendy bus

[@JimsTravelLine-zo2bg]

A TRIPLE UNIT! I had no idea these were being built. Wow-wee.

[@laureanoarantesnetto8893]

parabéns a Trondheim na Noruega , parabéns a Van Hool sempre falo o ônibus mais bonito do mundo , que ônibus completo , bi-articulados com ar condicionado , elétricos portas pantográfica tipo metrô, que cores , legal, alguns desses aqui na m,boy mirim sp Brasil

[@TramBusTV]

NICE Video :-)!

[@CreatorPolar]

Amazing high capacity tram-buses you Trondheimers have, shame they don’t have two trolley polls above the vehicle

[@vanar1984]

Great video 👏

[@louisletourneau3429]

Anybody knows if you can steer the last axle when going backward like to park ?

[@fly89]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4vKpaaVjbV9oJI this is what happens 😂.

[@fly89]

joke aside, think to try to park this giant in reverse wouldn’t be efficient. It will take too much time. Every modern bus depot have the system that np bus should park or leave in reverse. less risk and save time. And this kind of bus won’t be used as long distance or travel bus, so shouldn’t have the need to be parked outside the depot.

[@EnigmaM1]

I live in Trondheim and know people who got to see everything inside, the buses do not have a reverse gear

[@laureanoarantesnetto8893]

Um salve pra Trondheim Norway , aqui do bairro de VILA REMO São Paulo , Brasil

[@OverSpotterBlackHUS1995]

Nice buses! How old are these buses? Which city and country is it? Which brand(s) and model(s) is it/are they? Which chassis and motor do thes buses have? Are these buses a diesel or an electric ones?

[@deathftmelancholy]

Van Hool is the company, Exqui.City is the name of the Model, and its a 2011 one. They're electrtic, and this video specifically promoting the 24m model one is located in Trondheim, Norway

[@OverSpotterBlackHUS1995]

@@deathftmelancholy Nice! Cool! Thank you very much! 😊🙂

[@utterbullspit]

These should be in every city on the planet

[@antoniojose8606]

Ele tem duas caras?

[@MezabarbaBH]

Parece, mas é só uma traseira com um baita vidro um tanto semelhante ao dianteiro

[@jackyknr3320]

On dirait vraiment des tramways👍

[@antoniojose8606]

É um ótimo ônibus de primeira. Gostei!

[@aboarabe7056]

Hello all Does anyone know what the approximate price for this Triple compartment mega bus ?

[@nicov1837]

A million Euros, give or take.

[@aboarabe7056]

@@nicov1837 It's expensive!

[@CreatorPolar]

@@aboarabe7056 but worth it and more convenient than purchasing zillions of 12m buses

[@manoeldeoliveira550]

Quê ônibus lindo deve ser bem confortável. Guarulhos SP Brasil.

[@milestone_achiever4634]

Are they entirely electric???

[@hadiamrane]

hybrid

[@milestone_achiever4634]

@@hadiamrane The most surprising thing about this Phileas design is that this bus model probably debuted in 2004. This is 17 years ago. And I look at the current designs of the Nova LFS and New Flyer Xcelsior and the Phileas design supercedes them greatly. I wish they had a bus like Phileas in the U.S. Hopefully they have the Phileas bus in Canada!!!

[@milestone_achiever4634]

@@hadiamrane Hadi. What speed are they governed to? If there was no governor, how fast could they really go. Do they handle well in snow? Is the drive axle ahead of the rear wheels??

[@hadiamrane]

@@milestone_achiever4634 van hool is a belgium bus company. Now, i'm from belgium myself but to be able to answer that question, we should have bought those busses from day one, which we didn't. Now, we have those busses up and running (and also finally bus announcements are working) but only in brussels. The project is called "ringtrambus". But thats only in brussels, i do not live their but around antwerp so i can't answer that. What i can say about traction and snow, we have the van hool newag 300 driving around since 2004 which uses the same rear steering axle system at the rear. When its slippery or when the tyres are on tram tracks (which here in belgium is a thing, busses that shares the same place with the trams here in antwerp and ghent) the bus tends to "slip", so the driver accelerates but the bus prevents that from happening and then you can hear air somewhere on the right side being released, so the driver is sort of fighting with the bus to let it drive, eventually, the bus goes (after lets say 4 times keeping acclerating a bit of steering left and right, so yes it doesn't like slippery conditions, but i never seen such a bus get stuck on the snow, for that van hool has put some special techniques in place to prevent that. But these busses are build from 2004 to 2007 if i'm not mistaken and because we keep each bus running for like 10 years, we can't enjoy a new bus everytime. Hopes that answers that. About the speed, here in belgium, delijn, which is the bus company here, likes to limit every bus to 75 km/h. And to be hones, i think thats enough, because these busses like to "dance" whenever the driver does just a little "steering correction" on the highway, haha. If you have more questions, i like to answer them ;)

[@nicov1837]

@@milestone_achiever4634 This isn't the Phileas. Phileas was a failed product. Looked great on paper, but there were lots of technical problems. Fewer than 100 were ever built, and the company that made them declared bankruptcy in 2014.

[@ak5659]

One rarely sees vehicles like this operating on snow and ice covered roads.

[@MimicoBungalow]

exactly what I was thinking. A triumph of style over function.

[@TrondEggan]

In Trondheim we see exactly that every day every winter season

[@christopherfairs9095]

@@MimicoBungalow What complete nonsense.

[@CaptainM792]

Van Hool ExquiCity is far better than the ART from China! European Quality 🇪🇺 🇧🇪 > 🇨🇳

[@juancarlosrojas773]

Se parece al Iron Bus de Modasa hecho en Perú

[@doobob5264]

it’s a glider

[@MsGalfreak]

That was clear again, that the city of Trondheim would fall for this !!! I could almost have bet on it ... ... double articulated buses and guided buses are an INFERIOR REPLACEMENT for a transport system, that we already have for long: TRAM / LIGHTRAIL. No possibility of train formation (tractions). No turf tracks are possible. Instead, there is a lack of safety on street and in pedestrian zones, due to the confusion without lane guidance. The partly dismantling of the tram was the biggest mistake in the city's history of Trondheim, in terms of transport policy and the tram survived only thanks to the great commitment of its citizens united in a private company, which has impressed and inspired people worldwide. But instead of doing their homework - in view to traffic turnaround, climate change and e-mobility - and correcting this blatant mistake and routing the remaining GRAAKALTRAM BACK DOWNTOWN, this municipality has no other creative idea, than to purchase double articulated buses. It has to be said very clearly, that this is not an innovation at all, but a sham package ! And that is by the way, why the french CITY OF CAEN has switched from those buses BACK TO THE TRAM. After all, the tram is also the forefather of e-mobility ;-) .

[@elnoruego6854]

Trams can't really change routes that often or easily

[@martinpavlicek2299]

The city of Nice had simmilar tramway trolley bus hybrid. Their version was able to get guided by one rail, therefore being more safe, predictable and easier to ride when being lead by rail. But they scrapped it because the company stopped selling replacement parts and it also had lots of technical issues. So they decided to buy normal trolley buses to replace them with. Some people would say that the addition of rail riding capability in former hybrids was redundant and just added useless costs of building the rail. But perhaps the benefits of rail guiding are significant enough and it just needed to be designed better.

[@MsGalfreak]

@@elnoruego6854 ... because they don't have to ! Similar to subway/metro system, they follow usually the main traffic corridors of a city, which do not change either. As long as the rail system on its route is permanently more economical than a service by bus, it doesn't matter if it's occasionally interrupted, e.g. due to construction work or an accident and has to be replaced by a bus, then for one time. These individual cases are not significant.

[@rickace132]

This is like the trackless tram in China. They copied it.

[@LuanUjupi]

The Exquicity24 exists way longer than those trackless trams my friend the trackless tram models came much later than the exquicity24 from vanhool

[@MsGalfreak]

That was clear again, that the city of Trondheim would fall for this !!! I could almost have bet on it ... ... double articulated buses and guided buses are an INFERIOR REPLACEMENT for a transport system, that we already have for long: TRAM / LIGHTRAIL. No possibility of train formation (tractions). No turf tracks are possible. Instead, there is a lack of safety on street and in pedestrian zones, due to the confusion without lane guidance. The partly dismantling of the tram was the biggest mistake in the city's history of Trondheim, in terms of transport policy and the tram survived only thanks to the great commitment of its citizens united in a private company, which has impressed and inspired people worldwide. But instead of doing their homework - in view to traffic turnaround, climate change and e-mobility - and correcting this blatant mistake and routing the remaining GRAAKALTRAM BACK DOWNTOWN, this municipality has no other creative idea, than to purchase double articulated buses. It has to be said very clearly, that this is not an innovation at all, but a sham package ! And that is by the way, why the french CITY OF CAEN has switched from those buses BACK TO THE TRAM. After all, the tram is also the forefather of e-mobility ;-) .