Zurich, Switzerland - January 22-25, 2018 - For this year's annual World Economic Forum (January 23-26, 2018), the city of Davos and ABB have teamed up in a long-term partnership to provide e-infrastructure for public and private transportation. Davos residents and WEF guests can experience the pioneering TOSA bus for themselves. The award-winning TOSA bus, developed by ABB in Switzerland, is already in use in Geneva and will soon be implemented in the French city of Nantes. It can recharge its battery in just 20 seconds as passengers board and disembark.

In Davos, host city of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting, fast charging for e-vehicles is becoming an integral part of the transport ecosystem. Photo courtesy of ABB

Davos residents and WEF guests can experience the pioneering TOSA bus for themselves. The award-winning TOSA bus, developed by ABB in Switzerland, is already in use in Geneva and will soon be implemented in the French city of Nantes. Photo courtesy of ABB

Davos residents and WEF guests can experience the pioneering TOSA bus for themselves. It can recharge its battery in just 20 seconds as passengers board and disembark. Photo courtesy of ABB

In addition, electric cars transporting attendees around Davos will be able to recharge their batteries at eight newly installed ABB fast-charging stations.

Collectively, the TOSA e-bus and the charging stations provide a powerful, real-world demonstration of state-of-the-art sustainable transportation technologies, which are seeing increased deployment throughout the world as e-mobility becomes the driving force for bringing energy efficiency with low environmental impact to cars, buses, trains, ships and cable cars.

ABB CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer. Photo courtesy of ABB

Electric cars transporting attendees around Davos will be able to recharge their batteries at eight newly installed ABB fast-charging stations. Photo courtesy of ABB

ABB is the technology leader in the fast-charging products and systems that are transforming transportation in globally sustainable ways.

Sustainable transportation is playing a crucial role in the fight against climate change, as e-mobility begins to replace fossil-fuel-powered vehicles spewing greenhouse gases contributing to global warming.

Ulrich Spiesshofer, Chief Executive Officer, ABB, Switzerland capture during the Session: The Great Energy Transformation at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 25, 2018 Photo courtesy of World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018 / Sikarin Thanachaiary

Partnership for sustainable transportation. Press Conference at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018. 23-26 January 2018, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. Photo courtesy of World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018

For public transport, the all-electric TOSA e-bus at Davos is at the cutting edge of sustainable transportation innovation.

Indeed, TOSA received the prestigious Watt d’Or 2018 in the energy efficient mobility category from the Swiss Federal Office of Energy.

The TOSA technology was jointly developed in Switzerland by ABB in partnership with Transport Publics Genevois (tpg), the Office de Promotion of Industries et des Technologies (OPI), the Services Industriels de Genève (SIG), and bus manufacturer Carrosserie HESS.

The same TOSA technology in use at Davos has been powering buses on Geneva's bus line 23 airport route.

They use overhead contacts that connect at selected stops along their routes to replenish their batteries in as little as 20 seconds, recharging as passengers board and exit.

Partnership for sustainable transportation. Press Conference at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018. 23-26 January 2018, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. Photo courtesy of World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018

The environmentally friendly system in Geneva could ultimately cut carbon dioxide emissions by 1,000 tons annually.

But ABB’s sustainable transportation solutions aren't limited to conventional cars and buses.

ABB supplies the railway sector with innovative and energy-efficient technologies like traction transformer and converter made primarily in Switzerland.

One example is the Rhaetian Railway that shuttles between Landquart and Davos.

Partnership for sustainable transportation. Press Conference at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018. 23-26 January 2018, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. Photo courtesy of World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018

ABB is also enabling e-mobility in ocean-going tankers, freighters and passenger ships.

There, ABB’s Azipod propulsion systems power vessels with steerable, high-efficiency electric-drive propellers, which make ships significantly more maneuverable and can reduce their need for on-board fossil fuels by 40 percent or more.

Partnership for sustainable transportation. Press Conference at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018. 23-26 January 2018, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. Photo courtesy of World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018

The ABB motors, which deliver a total output of 2.3 megawatts, enable the cable railway to carry up to 1,500 people per hour in each direction over its 1.7 kilometer route.

ABB has also provided state-of-the-art motors and drives for a newly opened, record-setting gondola system carrying 580 passengers an hour to the Zugspitze - Germany's highest peak.

Continuing a history of innovation spanning more than 130 years, ABB today is writing the future of industrial digitalization and driving the Energy and Fourth Industrial Revolutions.

As title partner of Formula E, the fully electric international FIA motorsport class, ABB is pushing the boundaries of e-mobility to contribute to a sustainable future.

ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 136,000 employees.

Partnership for sustainable transportation. Press Conference at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018. 23-26 January 2018, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. Photo courtesy of World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018

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