MAN Lion's City A37 Hybrid — German City Bus Mod for PBS

MAN Lion's City A37 Hybrid — 12-Metre German City Bus

This is the hybrid version of MAN's A37 city bus, a 12-metre rigid single-decker carrying its energy storage in a pod on the roof rather than under the floor. The mod ships as a two-door configuration with a full passenger saloon and a multiplex dashboard, and the archive identifies it as a prototype build — a testbed specification rather than a standard production order.

Highlights and Features

• Roof-mounted energy storage pod, the visual signature that separates a hybrid Lion's City from the plain diesel version at a glance.
• Two-door layout on a 12-metre rigid body, the configuration MAN offered where seating mattered more than boarding speed.
• Multiplex dashboard panel with electronic destination display and working hazard lights.
• Complete passenger cabin with rain effects on the glass, built for Proton Bus Simulator 300 and newer.

Compatibility and Technical Details

About the Real MAN Lion's City A37 Hybrid

The A37 is MAN's 12-metre Lion's City variant with a vertical engine installation, a layout the manufacturer has offered since 2002. A production hybrid-electric Lion's City became available in 2010, using supercapacitors and a pair of 67 kW electric motors to recover braking energy and assist acceleration — MAN reported around 30 percent lower fuel use in urban duty and sold roughly 800 hybrid buses across ten countries in the years that followed, with France and Spain the largest markets. This particular vehicle is presented as a prototype, and the exact year of the demonstrator it represents is not something we could confirm against reliable sources, so it is left unstated rather than guessed.

Credits

Original Mod: V3D · Convert to PBSU (A21): Bus Simulation Channel · Interior Bars, Doors (MLC A76): Sobol3D · Interior Seats: Lenny_91 · Modifications/Transformation: PBSU Bus Modder · Sounds: Radius Amigo / Kurata · Physics: Radius Amigo / Kurata