The Railway Magazine

Battery train world record

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STADLER set a new world record for battery train operation on December 22, when its ‘Flirt Akku’ prototype BEMU (Akku = battery in German) ran for 224km from Berlin to Warnemünde on the Baltic coast. The trial run took place in sub-zero temperatur­es. One hundred Flirt Akku trains are on order for use in Germany from 2023.

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