Daimler Buses GmbH is celebrating its 30th anniversary. On February 23,1995, EvoBus GmbH was established by a merger of the former Daimler-Benz AG bus division and the former Karl Kässbohrer Fahrzeugwerke GmbH bus division, based in Ulm. Since then, Mercedes-Benz and Setra brand buses have been operating under one roof. In 2023, the company was renamed Daimler Buses GmbH. Last year, the Daimler Buses segment sold around 26,600 units worldwide, and had a headcount of more than 15,000 employees.
Daimler Buses GmbH is a subsidiary of Daimler Truck and is responsible for its European bus activities and is part of the global Daimler Buses segment of the entire Group. Daimler Buses is responsible for the global activities of the bus and coach as well as service brands Mercedes-Benz, Setra, Omniplus and BusStore. The portfolio of Daimler Buses ranges from coaches, inter-city buses, city buses and special-purpose buses to bus chassis. In addition to the production and sales of new buses, Daimler Buses operates a global service network and offers comprehensive services for vehicles and used buses and coaches. Establishing an efficient production network between the traditional Daimler-Benz site in Mannheim and the Kässbohrer plants in Neu-Ulm, Holýšov (Czech Republic) and Ligny-en-Barrois (France) was already one of the strategic objectives when the enterprise was founded. Over the years, Daimler Buses has expanded its production network to include additional sites in Samano (Spain) and Hoşdere (Turkey). To this day, the enterprise
relies on this production network, with the two German sites in Mannheim and Neu-Ulm playing key roles: The Mannheim plant is the competence center for electrically powered city buses, the Neu-Ulm plant is the competence center for coaches of all drive types and the only site that manufactures Setra coaches. Daimler Buses is set to invest around 150 million Euros in the two German sites by the end of the decade. Daimler Buses aims to offer battery or hydrogen-based CO2-neutral models for local applications in each segment by 2030. The focus will initially be on the core markets of Europe and Latin America. By 2039, only CO2-neutral new vehicles will be sold for local applications in the core market of Europe. In the city bus segment, this is to be the case in Europe as early as 2030. In June 2023, the enterprise established a new subsidiary, Daimler Buses Solutions GmbH, which fully specializes in the design and development of electric and H2-infrastructures.