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Delivering on electric street sweeping sustainability
By MATT STARNES | Product Marketing Manager, Bucher Municipal North America Inc.
Sustainability is a word that gets tossed around, sometimes inaccurately. One definition of sustainability is to save our natural or physical resources from running out. In a broader definition in relation to street sweeping, sustainability is the ability to maintain a process, such as effective and continuous street sweeping program, over time. That’s why there is a huge push to add electric-powered street sweepers — and equipment and vehicles — to the fleets of municipalities and contractors. Bucher CityCat VR50e: Electric performance in the compact class Keeping sustainability in mind, Bucher Municipal’s new mid-sized all-electric pure
ABOVE: Bucher CityCat VR50e All-Electric Street Sweeper (Photo provided by Bucher Municipal)
costs and extended on-station/work time vacuum CityCat VR50e delivers on low with the 232-gallon water capacity. environmental impact first by its customWater is also used to suppress dust via designed zero emission Bucher Battery water jets on each brush. This provides a Pack. This pack is tailored to the sweeper. fine clean water spray that traps dust parThis proven technology helps deliver a ticles, which are then lifted by the two — or minimal footprint to the environment and the optional three — brushes. Recycled achieves low noise emissions — goodbye water from the hopper is filtered and fed noise pollution. into the suction intake. The VR50e is PM 2.5 Water? While it may seem odd to men- and PM10 4 star certified for dust emissions. tion water when talking about electricity, it makes sense with today’s critical water Mid-sized pure vacuum sweeper supply issues. The CityCat VR50e uses a The Bucher CityCat VR50e solves the recirculation system to reuse water inside “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” conunthe hopper. The result? Reduced refilling drum. While traditional truck-mounted sweepers tend to use more fuel and are
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