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One line will serve Gigafactory
BERLIN (AP) — Electric vehicle maker Tesla has opened its rail line east of Berlin to passenger trains designed to be used by staff at its new “Gigafactory” east of the German capital. The trains began running on Sept. 4 and are loose and available to all passengers, whether Tesla staff or not.
The short rail line, about 3 miles long, was purchased from an independent German rail infrastructure holding company and provides Tesla with direct connections to the main line owned by Deutsche Bahn (German railways) connecting Berlin to Poland [see “Tesla buys German railway”. line, plans passenger trains,” News Wire, February 3, 2022]. The track was already used in the plant structure to move fabrics and will be used once the plant is fully open to send or obtain up to six freight trains. consistent with the day.
Tesla built its Gigafactory, its first European factory, in Grünheide, east of Berlin, on a wooded domain used before 1990 by East Germany’s former secret police, Stasi, as an educational base and housing a facility where all packages sent east were opened before delivery. to check for prohibited items.
Once fully operational, Tesla’s factory is expected to employ about 10,000 people working in 3 shifts 24 hours a day, and while many of them will likely drive cars to get there, many, adding those living in Berlin itself, will come. through exercise. Tesla sponsored the operation of passenger exercises to and from the new station built on the dead track, just outside the factory gates. These are operated through a local passenger transport contractor, the Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NBE), and run 54 times a day Monday to Friday, basically scheduled for shift adjustments through Tesla employees, from Erkner station, about 8km west of the site, which is served via fast travel exercises on the main line and is also the end of a Slower traveler separated. Line (all stations) “S-Bahn” from Berlin.
In the long term, a nearby Deutsche Bahn station, Fangschleuse, on the main line, connected via normal commuter train facilities to and from Berlin, will be moved to the vicinity of Tesla’s new factory, but not before 2025; It is currently unknown whether Tesla’s committed back-and-forth activity will continue in the future.
Think of the old NH FL9, with or batteries.
It’s almost as if Elon knows that traditional passenger trains are better than the stupid gadgetsbahns he seeks to sell to cities as transit solutions.
Tesla began assembling the Model Y at its only European factory in March 2022 and reached the production milestone of 5,000 units per week a year later. However, a recent report from Business Insider suggests that this is a unique feat, with production figures. falling to less than 4,000 series per week.
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USED SEMI-ELECTRIC NEWS FROM GERMANY! Tesla’s German diesel rail service replaced the round-trip bus carrying staff between Grundheinde Gigafactory and Erkner station, helping to reduce traffic congestion levels in the region.
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Twitter. X. Maybe it can be purchased through CSX in the future. NS wouldn’t see any point in that; They tried to own Piedmont, I think for a while.
DMU? REALLY Tesla?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Couldn’t battery-powered electric EMUs cause problems?
Maybe Musk will just hold out the sensible thing on his part and get by without batteries!By the way, I never found out anything about how the batteries of old electric cars and some battery-powered trams were recharged and how long it took. A mystery.
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