Rosenbauer Panther 6×6 electrical hearth truck [video]

Austrian emergency automobile producer Rosenbauer has formally opened the order books on its newest electrical hearth truck. Meet the Panther 6×6 electrical plane rescue and hearth fighter (ARFF).

4 electrical motors energy the brand new 6×6, delivering vastly superior efficiency, dealing with, and acceleration than its diesel-powered competitors.

The Rosenbauer Panther 6×6 electrical was specifically designed to satisfy the precise wants of airport hearth and rescue providers that should be ever-ready to answer emergencies – and get to them as rapidly as doable. The brand new speedy response ARFF is the following era model of the 4×4 Rosenbauer RT electrical hearth truck that’s been in improvement since 2020. 5 of these models have seen service in Berlin as a part of a pilot improvement program, with an analogous unit in service in Los Angeles becoming a member of two extra in Paris. The Parisian duo have gone to work for Groupe ADP on the Paris-Orly and Paris-Charles de Gaulle airports.

Electrical hearth truck

“With the Panther 6×6 electrical, we need to as soon as once more set the usual in a product class by combining a robust, totally electrical drive with the very best security requirements in its class,” says Andreas Zeller, Chief Gross sales Officer of Rosenbauer Worldwide. “This innovation not solely contributes to the net-zero targets of many airports but in addition meets the excessive expectations of our clients by way of efficiency.”

The electrical hearth truck can cost utilizing each AC and DC energy, so it’s at all times able to leap into motion. It could possibly energy its water pumps by means of both battery or auxiliary/grid energy, so it’s going to run out of water earlier than operating out of juice.

“By means of the event of our RT/ RTX, we have now acquired a substantial amount of experience within the discipline of e-mobility, which we have now been ready to make use of within the improvement of the Panther 6×6 electrical during the last two years. Particularly within the firefighting sector, e-mobility provides many benefits. With the PANTHER 6×6 electrical, airport hearth departments around the globe can now make the most of these advantages,” says Sebastian Wolf, CEO of Rosenbauer Worldwide.

Electrek’s Take

With the brief distances pushed and excessive hundreds concerned, airports current a virtually supreme use case for battery-electric automobiles.

That’s a great factor, too. As demand for on-road fossil fuels drops, airports and airways (traditionally answerable for about 4% Earth’s international warming) have gotten a much bigger and greater slice of a quickly shrinking pie in terms of fossil gas emissions.

SOURCE | IMAGES: Rosebauer, by way of Fb; Electrive.