Post by Leclanché SA

42% of Europe's rail network has no overhead wire. 🛤️ On those lines, diesel traction has been the default for decades. The constraint is economic. On low-traffic and rural lines, the cost of extending overhead wire rarely pays for itself. The communities those lines serve still need rail, but that infrastructure spend cannot always be justified. Battery-electric and hybrid trains offer a different approach. On electrified sections, they draw from the overhead supply. On non-electrified stretches, the on-board battery provides traction power, bridging the gaps between electrified sections without the need to string new catenary along them. This is no longer experimental. Battery trains are running in regular passenger service on national networks in a growing number of European countries, and the pipeline from rail authorities and rolling stock manufacturers keeps expanding. 👉 Battery rail is not the future of non-electrified routes. It is already the present. Source: Eurostat, UIC, IEA #Rail #BatteryStorage #Decarbonisation #EnergyStorage #BEMU