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International Railroad Discussion > Big, big batteries (Progress Rail)!Date: 02/18/26 14:57 Big, big batteries (Progress Rail)! Author: exhaustED fortescue-commences-progress-rail-bel-commissioning
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/18/26 14:58 by exhaustED. Date: 02/18/26 18:22 Re: Big, big batteries (Progress Rail)! Author: pedrop I hope they can be approved in the tests in the desert. One of these units was tested in the broad gauge ore trains (1,600mm) by MRS, that didn't like it. Let's see how they will work in the hot Pilbara desert.
Posted from Android Pedro Rezende Vespasiano MG, https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1 Date: 02/19/26 11:43 Re: Big, big batteries (Progress Rail)! Author: masterphots Development continues.... On another note, here in Santiago, Chile we now have 4,000 electric buses in the metro fleet. 62% of the total fleet and it will be 100% by early 2028. In-service failures over the past five years have been a tiny fraction as compared to the diesel fleet.
The current electric fleet is BYD (China) and recently Scania (Europe). Date: 02/20/26 08:17 Re: Big, big batteries (Progress Rail)! Author: sarailfan masterphots Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Development continues.... On another note, > here in Santiago, Chile we now have 4,000 electric > buses in the metro fleet. 62% of the total fleet > and it will be 100% by early 2028. In-service > failures over the past five years have been a tiny > fraction as compared to the diesel fleet. > The current electric fleet is BYD (China) and > recently Scania (Europe). Which is the opposite experience to what's happened in Canada. Multiple cities have tried electric busses,and they all have a *higher* failure rate than the diesel equivalent. Those failures are more pronounced as the weather gets colder. I don't know whose technology the Canadian ones are based on, but they're not built overseas so that may contribute as well. Posted from Android Darren Boes Lethbridge, AB Southern Alberta Railfan Date: 02/21/26 12:37 Re: Big, big batteries (Progress Rail)! Author: symph1 Even Winter Park, Colorado, has one in their fleet. Talk about cold, snowy weather!
I've never been on that bus. But I was on a different bus a couple weeks ago, and heard the driver of the electric one telling the dispatcher is was dead in the water, er snow. Multiple "check this and that" lights glowing. |