KIEPE Electric LLC has helped deliver 4 different fleets of electric trolley buses, totalling well over 500 vehicles. All four fleets of these electric buses are still active, providing daily service in the Cities of Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, Dayton, Ohio, Seattle, Washington and San Francisco, California.

At the end of 2024, King County Metro in Seattle commissioned Kiepe to upgrade the batteries in all 174 electric trolleybuses, enabling these vehicles to operate on battery power in areas where there are currently no overhead lines.

Our services

• Manufacture of drive system equipment, including traction inverters and brake resistors, geared traction motors
• Manufacture of power supply systems, including auxiliary converters, current collectors and energy storage systems
• Installation of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems [HVAC]
• Manufacture of control systems, including train control and monitoring by means of a modular control unit which includes the system integration of 3rd party supplied passenger information systems including, but not limited to, train control management systems, door systems, brakes, coupling and interior/exterior lighting, etc.
• Manufacture of vehicle data-management and diagnostics systems
• Manufacture of driver‘s cab control based equipment, including: controller, man-machine interface [MMI] and driver’s consoles
• Supporting the modernization and/or mid-life overhaul of various rail vehicles and transit buses