Diesel-Battery Hybrid TER Train To Be Tested Next Year
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Railway Gazette International.
These are the two introductory paragraphs.
Testing of a Coradia Polyvalent electro-diesel regional trainset fitted with a battery hybrid traction system is to begin early next year and passenger services are planned for 2022, Alstom has announced.
Two of the trainset’s four diesel engines are to be replaced by lithium-ion batteries, which will be used to recover and store braking energy for reuse. It is hoped that this will reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 20%, as well as reducing operating and maintenance costs.
Other points from the article.
- Testing is planned for 2021, with service entry, the year after.
- There are 300 of these Polyvalent trains in service.
- TER trains will stop using diesel by 2030.
- France intends to run its last diesel train in 2035.
It looks like Alstom are using a similar approach to that of Hitachi in the UK.
It looks like the French are ahead of us in the decarbonisation timetable for rail.
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