Product attributes
PKTS-6281 "Admiral" is a family of Russian low-floor trolleybuses created by PK Transport Systems LLC at the facilities of Engels Electric Transportation Plant, organized on the basis of the bankrupted Trolza plant. It is produced in two variants - a base model and an electric bus with recharging on the move. As of 2021, it is operated in St. Petersburg, Saratov, Omsk, Samara, Ivanovo and Krasnoyarsk.
Description
The trolleybus is based on the model Trolza-5265.02 "Megapolis"[source not shown 52 days], which was produced at CJSC Trolza plant from 2016 to 2019. The body is two-axle, with three doors for passenger entry-exit. The outer skin of the roof is made of galvanized all-steel sheet metal. The roof ovals, sides, front and rear cladding are made of fiberglass panels. The floor is low along the entire length of the saloon and has no steps. Opposite the middle door is an accumulation area for standing passengers, which can also accommodate a wheelchair or baby carriage.
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Samara
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Ivanovo
History
An experimental trolleybus in a body of its own design called PKTS-6281 "Admiral" was assembled at the facilities of the Tver Carriage Works in April 2015. The new trolleybus was presented to the general public on May 8, 2015 in Sevastopol, after which it was exhibited at several exhibitions in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. In June, the Admiral trolleybus was tested in Tver, and six months later it was tested in Ulyanovsk. In early 2016, "Admiral" was also presented to the city authorities in Krasnodar and Rostov-on-Don, in the latter the trolleybus was also run-in. In early May, the Admiral returned to Sevastopol. On May 2 it went on the line with passengers for the first time and operated for a month and a half on the local loop route until it was out of order due to the breakdown of storage batteries. Experimental operation of the Admiral in Sevastopol ended on June 26, after which the trolleybus was returned to the manufacturing plant in Tver, where it was idle at the TVZ for the next 3 years. On April 29, 2019, "Admiral" arrived for tests in St. Petersburg. The trolleybus was originally delivered to the territory of the Trolleybus Park No. 3 of the GUE Gorelectrotrans, but was soon transferred to the Combined Tram and Trolleybus Park and received trolleybus number 5555. Since mid-July, the trolleybus has been running in the streets in the northern part of the city, and from 22 to 30 September 2019 was tested by passengers on route No. 6. The largest customer of trolleybuses in Russia in recent years has been the city of St. Petersburg, which until recently carried out the serial purchase of new vehicles from the factories Trolza and Belkommunmash, while Moscow, planning to eliminate its network in the coming years, was limited to the delivery of fifty new trolleybuses produced by MAZ (further modified at the SVARZ plant) and the same Belkommunmash. In the second half of 2019, the need for production of new trolleybuses became evident after the suspension of operation of Trolza plant in Engels, which since late 2018 has been in a difficult financial situation and had a number of outstanding debts caused by pressure from both competitors and local authorities, which dictated abandonment of trolleybus operation in favor of bus transport, which played a cruel joke with the manufacturer Trolza. At the same time, production of models of the Megapolis family was actually curtailed as early as March 2019, while at that time major cities were still showing interest in the products of the Engels plant Trolza, which produced its own trolleybuses and electric buses with dynamic recharging. The first version of the Admiral turned out to be quite expensive to produce and was not popular with interested customers due to its original design and body shape, which later on, in light of known events, prompted the development of a more simplified version of the trolleybus model.
Announce
On February 20, 2020, it was announced that Trolza would cease production of the transport. On the same day, Transport Systems presented an updated version of the PKTS-6281 Admiral trolleybus, one of the first copies of which was assembled at the site of the bankrupt Trolza plant in September 2019. The new version of the PKTS-6281 "Admiral" was a radical modernization of the trolleybus modification Trolza-5265.02 "Megapolis", being structurally an improved version of it and differing externally only by a modified front and rear mask. Inside the "Admiral" underwent more global changes, received LED lighting and a new more spacious interior, as well as contrasting trim on the sides and ceiling based on aluminum panels. Serial production of the updated "Admiral" began in May 2020 and the main customer was the St. Petersburg "Gorelectrotrans". Up to the end of 2020, 87 innovative trolleybuses of the model PKTS-6281.00 "Admiral" will have been supplied to St. Petersburg. The electric bus with dynamic recharging of the PKTS-6281.01 Admiral modification was also developed on its basis, its serial production is expected in the second half of 2021. In the same year, the production of trolleybuses "Admiral" in St. Petersburg at NZET began.