Hmmm. Croatia is experimenting with battery and battery-overhead wire trains
But a charging point is due to be built at Split - but that's more than 300km from the next overhead wire... that's well beyond the range of any current battery train
@jon, in other words, they're splitting the route at Split 🙃
Jokes aside, are they actually going to only build one?
@andrew_shadura At the start, yes. Which maybe to test the technology is perhaps not the worst choice? I assume it'll be the standard Koncar design with some batteries on the roof.
@jon @andrew_shadura interesting that they can fit useful capacity just on the roofs. I would have expected a whole railcar full of batteries, like a coal tender...
... actually, why not a tender? It would be relatively quick to exchange with a charged one at the station....
@werner58 @andrew_shadura I think it all depends on the distance you need your battery train to cover. Stadler's BEMUs for Schleswig Holstein need to cover between 160 and 200km between charges - that's quite easy. Charge using pantograph at the end of the route.
If you needed 400-500km then it might well need different thinking...