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The Wabtec FLXDrive platform (pronounced "flex-drive") is a class of battery-electric locomotives manufactured by Wabtec's GE Transportation subsidiary beginning in 2019. . Using a modified version of the GE Evolution Series platform, FLXdrive is Wabtec's first zero-emissions locomotive, storing energy in 20 racks of lithium-ion battery cell
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Battery electric locomotive Battery capacity: 14.5 megawatt hours ... (Book 14). Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Publishing.
The company's main products are locomotives for shunting, mainline railways, tunnelling, and underground mining. Power sources include battery-electric, battery hybrid and diesel. It also provides a special design and build service; tunnel drilling machines, cable handlers, overhauling or upgrading existing equipment, converting from old diesel ...
Britain successfully trialled fare paying passenger hybrid overhead wire/lithium battery trains in January and February 2015. [ 3 ] According to a 2019 analysis by VDE e.V. , on a line run more frequently than approximately every 24 to 30 minutes, BEMU is more expensive than electrifying the line and running standard EMUs ; for lines run less ...
Wabtec claimed that the next version of the locomotive, to be developed within two years, would reduce the consumption of diesel fuel by nearly a third, and that emissions could entirely eliminated through the development of accompanying hydrogen fuel cells. [47] The first battery locomotives were for the Roy Hill railway.
Greenbat battery-electric locomotive 6061 (built 1961) at Steeple Grange Light Railway. Greenwood & Batley were a large engineering manufacturer with a wide range of products, including armaments, electrical engineering, and printing and milling machinery. They also produced a range of battery-electric railway locomotives under the brand name ...
The Altoona Works BP4 is a 1,500 hp (1,120 kW) B-B battery-electric locomotive rebuilt by the Altoona Works of the Norfolk Southern Railway.It was created in 2007 by replacing the diesel prime mover of an EMD GP38 (Norfolk Southern #2911, formerly Conrail #7732) with 1,080 12-volt lead-acid batteries and associated control equipment.
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