Battery Electric locomotives
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:47 pm
Spurring from the chatbox conversation on gensets, has anyone heard much lately about the progress being made on fully battery electric locomotives? I see Progress Rail has an SD40 sized loco that's fully electric being tested in California doing switching duties at least: https://railpictures.net/photo/849957/
Wabtec has this larger unit in testing phase, using a 7 megawatt battery: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/tr ... ght-trains
Appears they were testing a similar model with a 2.4 megawatt battery that was paired up with a diesel electric and noticed an 11% fuel decrease over the 3 month test.
Believe there's some yard operations that are using fully electric units too.
Wabtec has this larger unit in testing phase, using a 7 megawatt battery: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/tr ... ght-trains
Appears they were testing a similar model with a 2.4 megawatt battery that was paired up with a diesel electric and noticed an 11% fuel decrease over the 3 month test.
Believe there's some yard operations that are using fully electric units too.