The first battery bus to be put into commercial bus service was a bus built by the coachbuilder and later car manufacturer, Kühlstein Wagenbau in Charlottenburg , Berlin. In connection with an international car exhibition in Berlin from 3 September 1899, the battery bus was in traffic between Anhalter Bahnhof and Stettiner Bahnhof. The batteries had enough power for six trips before recharging was necessary. Along this route was a charging station in Askanischen Platz. From 13 March 1900, ten battery-powered buses were in service in Berlin, but had to be withdrawn at the end of the same year.
the Berlin automobile manufacturer Kühlstein Wagenbau presented an electric bus in September 1899. The “18-seater Mail Coach” is capable of “traveling a distance of approximately 100 km on a single charge,” reports the “Polytechnical Journal.”
The Kühlstein carriage factory, a traditional carriage builder and purveyor to the court, invites you to take tours on the innovative vehicle. The automotive industry is booming. At the first Berlin car exhibition two years earlier in the Hotel Bristol, just eight vehicles from four manufacturers were on display. In addition to the motor cars from Carl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Friedrich Lutzmann, Kühlstein presented an electric vehicle there in 1897 - less like a car than like a carriage without horses.
the Kühlstein company was a wheelwright company that made the richly decorated gala carriage for the Crown Prince's wedding in 1905, and built a few more cars in small series before the company went bankrupt in 1926. Daimler-Benz bought the property at Salzufer 4 in Charlottenburg in 1934 in order to expand its headquarters in Berlin.
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