Daimler Buses

Daimler Buses GmbH, known until July 2023 as EvoBus GmbH, is a German manufacturer of buses and coaches and a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler Truck. It is headquartered in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany, and sells its vehicles under the Mercedes-Benz and Setra brands. The company came into being in 1995, when the bus division of Mercedes-Benz and the bus maker Setra were combined under the EvoBus name. City buses such as the Citaro and the chassis for its vehicles are built in Mannheim, coaches are completed in Neu-Ulm, and other plants stand in France, Czechia and Spain, with licensed production in Turkey. Besides new vehicles the business offers bus-specific services, from insurance and financing to original parts, through a sales and service network across Europe. In 2016 it employed 17,899 people. The article also records Setra's self-supporting coach body of 1951 and the company's long experiments with hydrogen fuel cells.