Alstom demonstrates battery-powered train in Germany. The train is being demonstrated this month and will enter passenger service in December.
An Alstom battery-powered Coradia train undertook demonstrations in Saxony, Germany, running from Flöha and Zschopau and then back to Chemnitz on September 7 and will also be used on September 9 to carry passengers as part of the Digital Rail Convention in Annaberg-Buchholz. The train is due to start operating in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria from the start of the new timetable this December. Alstom says it will be the first battery-powered train approved for regular passenger operation in Germany since the 1960s. The train was developed at the manufacturer’s Hennigsdorf site and can ran both on overhead ac electrification and battery power.