Tim Elderton, from the Lithgow Railway Workshop, was tasked with building curved solar panels and a battery system to power the train. "Basically it's electric bus technology that we've re-engineered to adapt to a train," he said. "Of course the major difference is it's got solar panels on the roof so it can recharge itself. For those cloudy days we've also got 30 kilowatts of solar panels in this [station's] roof here so we can also plug it in. On a sunny day like today we can do about four or five trips before we have to plug it in."
Longer trips than this one — 10 minutes to cover three kilometres or so — would require regular recharging stations along the route, but Mr Flannery said the technology might be suited to inner-city trams.
OK, so not exactly nippy, but an interesting start.
Via Ted Ewen.
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Fully solar powered train launches in Australia
#solar #environment #Australia
In the beachside holiday destination of Byron Bay, a 70 year old heritage train car has been restored and retrofitted with solar panels along a 3km stretch of disused railway line.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-16/world-first-solar-train-the-brainchild-of-byron-bay-millionaire/9265522
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