Iveco 2480

The Iveco 2480, also sold as the Socimi 8843, is an articulated trolleybus designed and built jointly by the Italian maker Iveco Bus, which supplied the chassis, and Socimi, which fitted the body. It entered service from 1991 and was based on the Iveco 480 urban bus. It rested on a new generation ultra low floor chassis that met the modern approval criteria, and it was 18 metres long with four side doors to the Italian specification, although units sold abroad could have two or three. It was delivered in the standard bright orange of Italian public transport and drove through a Socimi and AEG electric propulsion set. It was the last trolleybus produced under the Iveco and Socimi label, because the difficulties of Socimi from 1992 almost stopped Iveco trolleybus production until 2000, when the Cristalis and the Citelis restarted it. In Italy it became the most widespread new generation trolleybus, and the Milan operator ATM ran 33 of them.