Contrac Cobus
The Contrac GmbH was founded in 1983 in Wiesbaden. Since 1989, the company produced from Delkenheim the airport Cobus. Cobus is a specially designed for the run-up to use an airport bus. The bus structure is made from bolted aluminum profiles and is therefore free from corrosion. The world market share of the product Cobus located since 2004 at 90 percent.
The turnover was 117 million euros in 2007.
Prehistory
The first was Cobus - developed by the body shop Hess and FBW for the Zurich airport and taken into operation in 1978 - even without the use of this brand name. The vehicle had a welded -aluminum body. The chassis consisted of a power head with it slung front- engine, which worked on the front axle, as well as a rolling stool for the passenger compartment. The concept not only impressed the Zurich airport, but also Jürgen Kamps, the current Managing Director of the company contracting. So it was on 30 November 1989 to conclude an agreement between Hess and the Contrac, which transferred the rights for worldwide distribution and installation of Buskits to contracting. Also one of the party was the Portuguese manufacturer Salvador Caetano, in which the buses were assembled. At that time, Hess had already developed the second Gereration airport buses with a bolted aluminum body with the patented CO -BOLT system, and FBW was now gone up in NAW. Contrac gave the airport buses also the brand name Cobus, which was already used from the first license delivery.
Manufacturer's models
- Cobus 2400
- Cobus 2500E first electric bus, used on the line 103 of the OVB
- COBUS 2700 for up to 99 passengers
- Cobus 2700s for up to 77 passengers
- Cobus 3000 for up to 112 passengers
- DES: as shuttle buses bidirectional buses of the DES ( Double End Steering) are used for the transportation of passengers from the mainland to the island Mont -Saint -Michel.
Electrically -powered bus in regular service
From September 2011 to the Cobus 2500E, the first bus model of contracting with electric drive, go into series production. A first test drive for the presentation of the electric bus in July 2011.
As of 31 October 2011, Cobus drove 2500E one of the first all-electric buses in Germany on the 17 km long line 103 Offenbach's traffic operations between Mülheim am Main, Offenbach am Main, Frankfurt am Main in regular service until mid-November 2011 in trial operation.