MAN Lion's City is a city bus built by the German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 truck and bus manufacturer MAN Nutzfahrzeuge since 2000. A new generation was launched in 2004.

It has a 6-cylinder turbocharged straight engine which runs on diesel, compressed natural gas

Compressed natural gas

Compressed natural gas is a fossil fuel substitute for gasoline , diesel, or propane/LPG. Although its combustion does produce greenhouse gases, it is a more environmentally clean alternative to those fuels, and it is much safer than other fuels in the event of a spill...

 or liquefied petroleum gas. Versions with hydrogen

Hydrogen

Hydrogen is the chemical element with atomic number 1. It is represented by the symbol H. With an average atomic weight of , hydrogen is the lightest and most abundant chemical element, constituting roughly 75% of the Universe's chemical elemental mass. Stars in the main sequence are mainly...

 fuel cell

Fuel cell

A fuel cell is a device that converts the chemical energy from a fuel into electricity through a chemical reaction with oxygen or another oxidizing agent. Hydrogen is the most common fuel, but hydrocarbons such as natural gas and alcohols like methanol are sometimes used...

 drive and with hydrogen internal combustion engines have been successfully tested, as well as diesel-electric

Diesel-electric

Diesel-electric transmission or diesel-electric powertrain is used by a number of vehicle and ship types for providing locomotion.A diesel-electric transmission system includes a diesel engine connected to an electrical generator, creating electricity that powers electric traction motors...

 hybrid

Hybrid electric vehicle

A hybrid electric vehicle is a type of hybrid vehicle and electric vehicle which combines a conventional internal combustion engine propulsion system with an electric propulsion system. The presence of the electric powertrain is intended to achieve either better fuel economy than a conventional...

 drive, and the latter is due to enter serial production in 2010.

The latest generation of Neoplan Centroliner

Neoplan Centroliner

The NEOPLAN Centroliner is a series of low floor bus which was first unveiled in 1997, and mainly built by NEOPLAN Bus GmbH for the European market...

 is based on the Lion's City (Neoplan is a part of the NEOMAN

Neoman Bus

Neoman Bus GmbH, also known as Neoman Bus Group, was a former bus, trolleybus and coach manufacturer in Germany, created when MAN AG subsidiary MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG acquired Neoplan Bus GmbH in 2001. While the parent company makes trucks and other vehicles, Neoman was focused on bus and coach...

 group).

Variants

City

• Lion's City M (different types available) - midibus, 8.6 m to 10.5 m
• Lion's City (also designated as A21 and NL xx3) - standard single decker, 12 m
• Lion's City C - long single decker, 13.7 m
• Lion's City L (known as Lion's City LL until late 2009, also designated as A26 and NL xx3-15m) - long single decker, 14.7 m
• Lion's City G (also designated as A23 and NG xx3) - articulated single decker, 18 m
• Lion's City GL (also designated as A23 and NG xx3) - articulated single decker, 18.75 m
• Lion's City GXL - articulated long (4-axle) single decker, 20.45 m
• Lion's City DD (also designated as A39 and ND xx3) - double decker, 13.73 m

Intercity

• Lion's City Ü (also designated as A20 and NÜ xx3) - intercity single decker
• Lion's City ÜLL (also designated as A25 and NÜ xx3-15m) - long intercity single decker

Low-entry versions

• Lion's City LE (known as Lion's City T until 2008, also designated as A78 and EL xx3) - city
• Lion's City LE Ü (known as Lion's City TÜ until 2008, also designated as A78 and EL xx3) - intercity

Hybrid Electric

MAN AG Bus sells the plenibus Lion's City Hybrid, which uses supercapacitor

Supercapacitor

An electric double-layer capacitor , also known as supercapacitor, supercondenser, electrochemical double layer capacitor, or ultracapacitor, is an electrochemical capacitor with relatively high energy density. Their energy density is typically hundreds of times greater than conventional...

s and two 67 kW electric motors. Hybrid electric bus

Hybrid electric bus

A hybrid electric bus combines a conventional internal combustion engine propulsion system with an electric propulsion system. These type of buses normally use a diesel-electric powertrain and are also known as hybrid diesel-electric buses....

es offer increased efficiency in urban traffic and use 30% less fuel than combustion-only buses.. The sizes are 12 m, 13.7 m and up to 18.75 m.

The Lion's City Hybrid is used in Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

, Cádiz

Cádiz

Cadiz is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the homonymous province, one of eight which make up the autonomous community of Andalusia....

, Madrid

Madrid

Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

, Málaga

Málaga

Málaga is a city and a municipality in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain. With a population of 568,507 in 2010, it is the second most populous city of Andalusia and the sixth largest in Spain. This is the southernmost large city in Europe...

, Murcia

Murcia

-History:It is widely believed that Murcia's name is derived from the Latin words of Myrtea or Murtea, meaning land of Myrtle , although it may also be a derivation of the word Murtia, which would mean Murtius Village...

, San Sebastián

San Sebastián

Donostia-San Sebastián is a city and municipality located in the north of Spain, in the coast of the Bay of Biscay and 20 km away from the French border. The city is the capital of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. The municipality’s population is 186,122 , and its...

, Seville

Seville

Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...

, Valladolid

Valladolid

Valladolid is a historic city and municipality in north-central Spain, situated at the confluence of the Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers, and located within three wine-making regions: Ribera del Duero, Rueda and Cigales...

, Lisbon

Lisbon

Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...

 and Oporto. One test bus is about to begin operation in Curitiba, Brazil.