BUS2TALK: ELECTRIC COACHES WITH MAN

Heinz Kiess grew up 500 metres away from a bus manufacturer. During his childhood used buses were his playground, and at 21 he took his HGV driver’s test and stepped out into the wider world delivering buses. ”Buses are my life“, says Kiess, who is currently head of Product Marketing Bus at MAN Truck & BUS.

Heinz Kiess was a guest in the BUS2BUS podcast studio at BUS2BUS 2024. In the BUS2Talk episode he talks about how MAN, European market leader in electric buses in 2023, wants to make travel more sustainable with electric coaches. Kiess understands the perspective of both bus drivers and manufacturers. Together, and with the BUS2BUS slogan ‘Fresh Travel’ in mind, Kerstin Kube-Erkens and Totinia Hörner discuss how bus and coach trips can become an even bigger part of the travel experience, and what MAN and the entire industry must do to convince 30 to 40 year-olds of bus travel.

To find out when driving a coach feels like “riding a magic carpet”, why drivers are managers and psychologists rolled into one, and why the world is too beautiful to be bypassed in a plane, listen in to the current episode of BUS2Talk.

Guests:

Heinz Kiess, Head of Product Marketing Bus, MAN Truck & BUS
Kerstin Kube-Erkens, Director, BUS2BUS
Totinia Hörner, Moderator

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