Meet the brand: Coachline Insurance Services
We catch up with Sallyanne Burdon from Coachline Insurance Services to find out more about the brand and exhibiting at Euro Bus Expo, on stand D16.
Tell us a bit more your company
At Coachline we focus solely on achieving tailor-made solutions for your Coach, Minibus, Fleet and Business Insurance.
We discuss your requirements and aim to deliver highly competitive premiums together with claims and risk management advice for your business.
Our aim is to make your life easier so that you can concentrate on running your business.
Our team have years of experience in delivering effective insurance policies to keep your business protected.
Tell us about your latest product(s), service(s), promotions or launches visitors can hope to see on your stand:
At Coachline we specialise in Coach and minibus Insurance and we’ve recently extended our free quotation service to include taxis , chauffeur’s, wedding cars and couriers.
Our award winning team and see how we can assist you with your business moving forward, there is also the opportunity to enter our free prize draw and see if you can beat the clock on our pop the lock game!
Why is exhibiting at Euro Bus Expo 2022 an unmissable opportunity for you?
We are looking forward to seeing some familiar faces, as well as meeting as many new people as possible!
Finally getting back to meeting people face to face and offering our support and services is part of our roadmap to recovery plan - these last few years have been particularly tough on the tourism industry and we are keen to support these businesses in anyway we can.
Meet the brand: Accure Battery Intelligence
We catch up with Claudia Rusek from Accure Battery Intelligence to find out more about the brand and its presense at Euro Bus Expo, on stand T56.
Tell us a bit more your company
We are battery experts increasing the momentum towards zero emissions with battery analytics and cloud computing software. Our energy and mobility future is built on batteries. With the staggering increase in demand for battery systems, the need to ensure safety while continuously optimizing battery performance, lifetime, and sustainability are a top priority. That’s where we come in. We support fleet managers, electrification project leaders, and battery engineers to prevent battery failures, increase reliability and longevity, and track battery performance to inform future purchase decisions.
We manage millions of batteries around the world, spanning all relevant cell chemistries, form factors and use cases—from buses to sports cars to stationary storage. With the BVG, Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe – one of the largest public transport authorities in Germany, we’ve established a partnership to not only monitor their e-bus batteries for safety but to accompany them on their electrification journey to have 1,600 e-buses by 2030. Our solution enables BVG’s electrification department to monitor the safety and get automatic alerts before failing batteries become dangerous to ensure the safety of passengers and crews, to plan maintenance, and avoid unnecessary downtimes.
ACCURE was founded in 2020 by Dr. Kai-Philipp Kairies, Dr. Johannes Palmer and Dr. Georg Angenendt. With a clear vision to accelerate the transition to clean energy and mobility and a problem-solving spirit, they set out to develop new, modern solutions to process and analyze the growing volume of data generated by battery management systems. Today more than 70 engineers and scientists from the world’s leading research groups and tech companies work together across North America and Europe to make batteries safer, more reliable, and sustainable using data analytics.
Tell us about your latest product(s), service(s), promotions or launches visitors can hope to see on your stand:
We’re all about battery analytics software to ensure a safe, reliable and sustainable transition to 100% battery-electric mobility.
Our visitors can learn about our battery intelligence platform and how they can reduce the risk and complexity of transitioning to an electric fleet.
Procurement Directors will be most interested in the Performance Manager, while Fleet and Electrification Leaders will want to know more about Safety Manager and Lifetime Manager:
ACCURE Safety Manager: Batteries have a certain risk of failure, potentially leading to explosions and fires. Safety Manager continuously monitors the fleet batteries using existing data and detects safety critical battery behavior weeks before it become dangerous. This allows operators to ensure the safety of passengers and crews, plan maintenance, and supports insurance policies to reduce OPEX.
ACCURE Performance Manager: As the backbone of our mobility future, batteries need to perform reliably. But experience has shown that batteries don’t always work as promised by the manufacturer, leaving electric buses stranded on winter streets or stuck at the depot. Online monitoring allows operators and procurement teams to identify under-performing batteries, ensure operation within warranty requirements, compare battery performance across suppliers and negotiate contracts at eye level.
ACCURE Lifetime Manager: The lifetime of a battery depends on a multitude of factors – from chemistry and form factor to temperature and load profiles during usage. But even two identical batteries used in the exact same way will behave differently as they age. Lifetime Manager accurately calculates the state of health and predicts the aging of batteries, including the impact of operating conditions. With these insights operators can improve the charging strategy, capacity and lifetime of their batteries by up to 25%, increasing the profitability and reducing the carbon footprint.
Why is exhibiting at Euro Bus Expo 2022 an unmissable opportunity for you?
Let’s ensure going electric is a smooth ride together! With our advanced battery data analytics we put our fleet owners in the driver’s seat to steer their electrification projects to be safe, reliable, profitable, and sustainable.
With the increased demand for EVs and fully electric mass transportation combined with a period of severe supply chain constraints, the incidents of safety critical events increases. We have only to look at the recent bus fires in London and Paris this year to remind of the necessity to ensure batteries are safe. With the latest advancements in cloud-based software and battery analytics, we want to increase the awareness for solution proven to address immediate safety needs.
New solutions are needed to increase the sustainability of batteries from longer lifetimes to their viability for second life usage. It’s important to us to carry this message along with the business benefits to ensure maximum acceptance for battery-powered fleets and the analytics technology necessary to ensure they fulfill the promise for clean, sustainable and safe mobility.
Euro Bus Expo 2022 is the place to be for the bus industry and we want to help accelerate the transition to clean mobility.
FlixBus and Volvo agree standard coach specification
Volvo Buses and FlixBus reached agreement earlier in 2022 on a standardised coach specification, they have confirmed. The two parties say it will simplify the vehicle order process for the scheduled service provider's partner operators through the creation of a trim level that “meets the demands of FlixBus for comfort and performance.”
The specification will be available across countries that are part of the FlixBus network. That includes the UK, the vehicle OEM has confirmed. It adds that development of the ‘off the shelf’ specification will “make fleet development easier for FlixBus partner operators… by lowering the efforts required on [their] side during vehicle procurement.”
Speaking about the collaboration, Volvo Buses in Europe Vice President, Coach Sales Niklas Orre says: “Volvo Buses and FlixBus have the same view of people transport – it must be sustainable, safe and reliable. Our cooperation agreement and our partnership give us the opportunity to develop this concept together.”
Adds FlixBus Chief Operating Officer Fabian Stenger: “Volvo Buses is a partner that shares our values concerning climate friendly travel and supplies premium coaches that can guarantee the FlixBus quality that our customers are looking for.”