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When the depot is too small for the electric fleet
Every charging point takes up parking space, and the fleet keeps growing. A new depot needs hectares. Your site does not have them, but it has height.
- 50 %
- saved compared with a new depot
- 100 %
- charged at the start of the shift
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- parking spaces on the same area, counted at four levels
Three things happen at once
Switching to electric buses changes the depot in three places at once. None of them can be solved with more asphalt once there is no asphalt left.
Charging points need room
Every charger, every transformer and every clearance comes off the parking area.
Our answer In the Tower the charging point sits at the parking space, on every level. The equipment grows upwards with the building instead of outwards.
The fleet grows, the site does not
More buses and more duty cycles, but the same property line.
Our answer Four levels instead of one. More vehicles means more columns.
Everyone leaves at the same time
The morning peak decides whether a depot works.
Our answer By schedule, every bus is down at the agreed time. On demand, retrieval takes up to 1.5 minutes per vehicle.
How much land a new depot takes
Two examples from the trade press, both from 2025. They show the order of magnitude involved when a depot is built from scratch.
Site for a depot with 120 electric buses, planned by Bogestra in Bochum electrive, 23 May 2025
Plot for the new electric bus depot of the BVG in Berlin-Treptow, room for about 220 buses electrive, 11 December 2025
Sources: electrive on Bogestra and electrive on the BVG. Both are new builds on their own land. Without the hectares, the only way is up.
This is what changes at your depot
Both designs create parking spaces upwards. Which one suits your site is something we work out together.
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The yard is big enough again
The same number of buses on a fraction of the area, without buying a single square metre.
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Cheaper than building new
50 % saved compared with a new depot on the outskirts, and the runs stay short.
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Every bus charges where it stands
A charging point at every space. The whole fleet is charged when the shift starts.
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A battery fire stays manageable
Sensors at every space; if something happens, the vehicle is taken out of the fleet within minutes.
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Shunting disappears
Straight in, step out, done. Around 15 minutes per vehicle, every day, on every run.
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Grows with the fleet
More vehicles mean more columns. The investment follows the fleet.
Three questions from transport operators
Can we handle the morning peak?
If eighty buses have to leave within thirty minutes, throughput decides, not the number of parking spaces.
Our answer Throughput is set by the number of handover stations, and they are sized for your duty roster. Per station, retrieval on demand takes up to 1.5 minutes. By schedule, the bus is ready with no waiting.
What if the equipment fails?
A depot that does not open brings operations to a halt.
Our answer Several handling units per facility, plus an emergency mode. How much redundancy your operation needs belongs in the design, not in the small print: ask us about it.
Can we build while we keep operating?
The site has to keep running while construction goes on.
Our answer The Stack is erected at the edge of the working site and grows column by column. Which construction phases are possible depends on the layout.
How many buses fit on your site?
Send us a site plan and your fleet. You will get a first assessment, with no commitment to either design.
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