What Stadler say is https://www.stadlerrail.com/media/pdf/mmer1216e.pdf "designed to allow later installation of energy storage systems". Could be they have something more than an opinion on the subject.
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Future of Wrexham-Bidston line, inc. possible franchise swap etc.
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Thanks, but I am suspicious that the depot batteries are being conflated with the hopes for service battery use. The second article seems to be written from press releases from the time of ordering. I am sure someone said they had done the investigation and found they couldn’t manage the heat of 5 tonnes of batteries??
I reckon that just means they have left a hole for it (possibly with the wiring to take power from there) which doesn’t mean that current tech batteries will work.
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There’s an article in the March edition of Modern Railways regarding the777’s. As regards the batteries, all of the 777’s will have small batteries to allow shunting movements, but one will have a (five ton) battery to allow for evaluation.
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