Disclaimer: Travel and accommodations for the author were paid for byLocated an hour outside of Istanbul in Bursa, Karsan has been building passenger vehicles and buses since it was founded in 1966. Their core business is the design and manufacturing of a full range of buses. Karsan also does intermittent contract manufacturing of passenger vehicles in a flexible factory arrangement that lets its business surge and contract as the business shifts over time.
In parallel, Karsan started developing an electric version of its smallest bus, the Jest. Karsan partnered with BMW to supply the batteries and motors to build the e-Jest and it was officially launched in Munich in 2018. Theis a 5.8 meter, 25 passenger low floor shuttle bus designed to meet the needs of the Turkish market, where these small buses are common sights on city streets.
Karsan followed up on the e-Jest with a fully electric version of the popular 8 meter, 52 passenger ATAK just one year later. It was the first of Karsan’s line of full-sized transit buses to be offered in a fully electric configuration. Since its introduction, Karsan has also added fully electric versions of the rest of its buses to its catalog.
Karsan’s Autonomous e-ATAK is a fully electric, level 4 autonomous vehicle, capable of navigating on city streets as a full-sized vehicle, at full speed. The company made history as Europe’s first self driving bus with passengers whenearlier this year in Stavanger, Norway. If early pilots of the technology are successful — and all signs point to that being the case — vehicles like the autonomous e-ATAK could unlock a future of low cost, zero emission transit with far fewer accidents.
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