Rosenbauer Panther 6×6 electric fire 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 must be ever-ready to reply to emergencies – and get to them as shortly as doable. The brand new fast 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 items 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 at 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 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 when it comes to efficiency.”

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

“By way of the event of our RT/ RTX, we have acquired a great deal of expertise in the field of e-mobility, which now we have 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 affords many benefits. With the PANTHER 6×6 electrical, airport hearth departments all over the world can now reap the benefits of these advantages,” says Sebastian Wolf, CEO of Rosenbauer Worldwide.

Electrek’s Take

With the quick distances pushed and excessive masses concerned, airports current an almost excellent use case for battery-electric autos.

That’s a superb factor, too. As demand for on-road fossil fuels drops, airports and airways (historically responsible for about 4% Earth’s global warming) have gotten an even bigger and larger slice of a quickly shrinking pie on the subject of fossil gasoline emissions.

SOURCE | IMAGES: Rosebauer, through Facebook; Electrive.