Ikarus 435T

The Ikarus 435T, also known as the Ikarus 435.81, is the trolleybus type built on the basis of the Ikarus 435 articulated bus. The bodies came from the Ikarus body and vehicle factory and the electrical equipment from Kiepe. A total of 15 were built, and they ran in Budapest with fleet numbers 300 to 314. By the early 1990s the first series of Ikarus 280T trolleybuses, numbered in the 100s, needed replacing, and the Budapest transport company BKV bought 15 of the 435T between 1994 and 1996 for lines 75, 77, 80, 81 and 82. Unlike the bus, the motor was placed at the B axle, making it a pull-articulated vehicle, and the cars used German Kiepe three-phase asynchronous technology installed with Obus instead of the usual Ganz electronics. They first had 149 kW Alstom motors, later swapped for 200 kW ones, and were modernised between 2003 and 2015. Withdrawal of the type ended the era of high-floor Ikarus 400 series vehicles in Budapest.