SMRT Euro-V Mercedes Benz fast facts
- Aircon model: Konvekta
- EDS model: LAWO (same as those fitted on TIB 595H, etc)
- Interior configuration: Aircon duct & panelling design
follows that of SBST Scania K230, MINUS the eyeball outlets.
Outlets are replaced with Habit-style.
- Seating: has 4 more seats over the K230. Centre exit is
shifted forward, 4-seater bench-seats in the low-floor area
converted to front-facing, slightly tighter legroom in the rear
seats allowing for an additional row to be placed in (seven rows
instead of six, including the last row)
- 2 wheelchair lots with seat-belts provided (not seen in
SBST)
- Manual wheelchair ramp
- 1.5-size "granny" seat above offside wheel arch behind driver
(same design as the second batch of K230s)
- Seat colour: mix of Red and Black in the rear (corporate
colours), yellowish-green for priority seats in the low floor
area
- On board voice annoucement/PA system using computerised voice
(Welcome on board SMRT, please move to the rear, etc) or
though BC speaking into mic
- The same door closing annoucement used on trains is played as
the door closing chime
- Next stop display panel not found to be fitted... at least not
yet.
- No driver window, only a small opening to stick out his
hand
- Yellow coinbox (still the same old TIBS one), orange Sanyo
thermal ticket printers
mannaul flap out style wheelchair ramp. ramp seems flimsy when
stepped on. scare is might fall apart. =S
really teenny weeny side EDS n rear EDS, think the sight
imparied will never see what bus it is..lol
nice one following hong Kong standard for PIW safety: fitting of
seatbelts. nice touch. Safety is always no 1.
bus engine kinda loud for an EURO V bus.
opinion: think meeting EEV is the ultimate goal of bus companies
going green in 2008. is our O500LE fitted with the DPF? With DPF is
consider EEV leow.
note: DPF buses are common in Seoul.
DPF = Disel puryfying filter.
opinion: avoiding CNG and using Diesel to go EURO V is a
great idea. however to point out in if in 2006, if u had purchased
a OC500LE in CNG fuel, it would have met EURO V standards. that is
2 years before today. However i also will point out that EURO V bus
moels are few to come by with Diesel fuels out on the general
bus market so the effort to source out a disel EURO V model is most
impressive.
most EURO V buses out on the market involve using really weird
alternative fuel sources like hydrogren gas, biofuels or even
Electricty.
review: 3 puryfying porcesses to meet EEV!
10 Adblue seems to be an additive based on urea.. aka urine. lol
bby ading Adblue n aiming it at the xhaust u reduce carbon .
bascially the carbon gets reacted with the nitrogen component in
urea and the end product is some nitrogen oxides n water. the
carbon compound stuffs will be stuck soemwhere in bus to be removed
later. Adblue aims at carbon products unlike other exhaust stuff
removers 2 and 3.
2) SCR; Selective Catalytic Converter. i dunno why selective. shd
not be selective. shd remove all bad emmisions. must not select
some. hahaha
anyhoww this one is the main guy removing most of the crap emmsions
we dun want from the bus. mainly if u heard of what catalysts can
do u shd know how this works. is fitted into engine and not toward
the exhuast pipe area.
with 1 and 2 u meet EURO V, to meet EEV u need number 3
3) DPF: probably a standardised compoent any \bus u cna fit to.
commonly found in south korean buses. as the name suggests it
purifies the disel exhaust. i regard DPF as a primitive form of a
SCR but fitted at xhaust pipes areas.
if aything wrong pls correct the suah ku who is me
lol
ZYX
