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mmalc Jul 7, 2025

Re-purposing 40-year old underground trains with batteries
Year-long test to electrify GWR branch lines

Diesel -> Standard grid -> Renewables
960 -> 235 (-> 26 kg) CO2/day

Battery trains end up being half the cost per train mile than catenary electric, and 63% the cost of diesel. Moreover much easier to install than catenary.

https://youtu.be/4qeK3182aPQ

#Electrification
#Batteries
#Trains
#BatteryTrain
#RenewableEnergy

GWR's Battery Train: The Verdict

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Jiří Kalina Dec 28, 2024

My very first ride with the new battery train Škoda 690. On the line from Veřovice to Studénka (and further to Ostrava under wires) now only these buzzing BEMUs run.

Má úplně první jízda vlakem na baterky od Škodovky. Na trati z Veřovic do Studénky (a dále do Ostravy pod dráty) teď jezdí pouze tyhle bzučící panťáky.

#bemu #train #batterytrain #skoda #pantak #pantograf #panter #studenka #studénka

🔏 Matthias Wiesmann Nov 29, 2024

TELLi – plus d’information

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/40180

#BatteryTrain #DesserteFine #RegioRail1 #RS1 #SNCF #TELLi #Train #TrainRégional #Trains #X73500

TELLi – plus d’information

La chaîne YouTube Clef de Berne a une nouvelle vidéo qui contient des informations concernant le TELLi de la SNCF. Dans mon billet précédent, je n’avais pas prêté d’attention particuliè…

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🔏 Matthias Wiesmann Sep 29, 2024

Le Flexy de la SNCF

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/39739

#BatteryTrain #Bus #Flexy #PublicTransport #RailRoute #SNCF #Train #Trains #TransportPublics #TVR

Le Flexy de la SNCF

Après le Draisy et le TELLi je vais parler d’un autre projet, le Flexy. Ces projets m’ont fait penser à la bande dessinée du Boulet concernant le marketing du Surimi, tant certains conc…

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🔏 Matthias Wiesmann Sep 28, 2024

Le TELLi de la SNCF

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/39731

#BatteryTrain #Draisy #PublicTransport #RSZero #SNCF #Stadler #TELLi #Train #Trains #TransportPublics

Le TELLi de la SNCF

À peine avais-je écrit mon billet concernant le projet Draisy de la SNCF, que je réalisait qu’il y avait deux autres projets pour le même contexte: les lignes secondaires. C’est incroya…

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🔏 Matthias Wiesmann Sep 26, 2024

Caltrain Kisses

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/39684

#BatteryTrain #Caltrain #Diesel #EMDF40PH #Railway #SBahn #Stadler #StadlerKiss #Train #Trains #Zürich

Caltrain Kisses

The first time I went to Silicon-Valley, I was expecting a high-tech place, and if not a monorail, a least modern railway service. Reality was different. Service between San-Francisco and San-Jose …

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🔏 Matthias Wiesmann Sep 10, 2024

The Tesla Electric Train https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/39412 #BatteryTrain #ElonMusk #Railway #Train

The Tesla Electric Train

So Tesla made a press release about the train going to the Giga factory close to Berlin, and of course so called journalists just repeat the claim it’s the first electric in the World, or Ger…

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🔏 Matthias Wiesmann Sep 8, 2024

I’m really impressed by the Tesla press release for the train at the gigafactory. These are not the first electric trains in the world, not even the first battery powered, they are not Tesla manufactured (these are Siemens Mireo) and there is no indication they use Tesla batteries. So they chartered trains and everything else is corporate lies. #tesla #trains #batterytrain #bs