Ben BrockertTesla Europe needed a way of moving employees at their factory outside Berlin. So they did they Tesla thing, and dug a tunnel and filled it with self-driving cars.
No of course not, they got a train.
Jan Wildeboer 😷
…might work for coffee…@jwildeboer
They build individual transport means. Of course they will not invest into electrifying tracks.
Announce there will be a highspeed rail project, and they will get hyperloop :P
Wilfried Klaebe@mwfc @jwildeboer @wikkit only the last few 100m (track ref 7390) are non-electrified, track ref 6153 all the way to Erkner is. That would make it possible to use battery electric trains that charge from overhead lines. Such things exist and already run on some German lines.
Are they available on order?
The last project I read was expecting delivery in 2029
And they need trains for material as well, so electrifying it makes sense. But it is a private Track. I read we are talking about few km.
@mwfc @jwildeboer @wikkit Less than 5km, by eye: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/52.3997/13.8034
Check
https://www.openrailwaymap.org/?style=standard&lat=52.402471240250776&lon=13.810114860534668&zoom=14
They indicate that it is under construction. So I assume they will switch and might electrify.
So renting some surplus Material doesnt sound too bad.
@wonka
I assume they just grabbed what is on the market. I doubt they do long term planning and accepting the German "ok, in 6 years, that is fine" mentality. They showed that if you throw money at problems you can speed things up (like finding contractors)
and given the transport options for goods it should really be the obvious move to go electric and not batteries.
@mwfc @jwildeboer @wikkit Non-battery electric would be even better, of course. For now, BE trains would be better than diesel, if they could somehow get some. That short a trip will have the diesel engine emit even worse because it will be too cold quite often.
@wonka
The schedule:
https://www.eberswalde-ffo.de/media/files/rbtes-fahrplan-erkner-tesla-sued.pdf
No, it does not stand still much and most likely will keep running non-stop.