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<p>[quote user="Bucyrus"]</p> <h4>...<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;">No, I don’t think there is any practical motive behind the 999 other than NS jumping on the fashion bandwagon and crowing about how green they are.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;">  </span>And for that, apparently NS thinks it is worth spending other people’s money, even if the locomotive is not practical for pulling trains.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;">      </span></span></span></span></h4> <p><span style="font-size:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:'Times New Roman';mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;">If anything, they did prove that you can paint a GP38 to make it look like a BL2.</span></span></span></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>Do not know, the objectives of the 999 project and what aims they follow, but they certainly not intent just going green.  It looks more, their "success" is do discover "best practices", in "cases" batteries may become an option and to be prepared about that. This certainly contains many "ifs" and "can/may be".</p> <p>Though, this is a Railroad Forum, <br /><br />have a look to another car than the Chevrolet Volt: The Mercedes<br />SLS AMG E-Cell.<br />Yeah, that is my dream car!  Excuse me for shouting it out so loud here, <br />but honestly, <br />the Chevy looks like an old Steam loco compared to the TGV in this case.<br />It is certainly a tech-study and basically shows, what could be possible:<br /><br />Engines:<br /> - 4 in wheels<br /> - max rpm 12000<br /> - comb. output of the four engines: 392kw<br /> - torque : 880kn / 649 lb-ft<br /> - accel.: 0~60 mph 4sec / mass:: 2tons empty<br /> - 1 gear <br /><br />Battery-Compartment::<br /> - 324 Lithium-Ion-Polymer cells<br /> - capacity: 48 kWh / 40 Ah @ 400V / max. output 480 kW<br /> - regenerative brakes<br /> - charged 85% after 8h @ 230V / high Volt ( 400V ) chargeable<br /><br />Scale this up to locomotive size, and you get a nice booster.<br />Big problem still remains, though, short battery-life of ~3 years.</p> <h4>oltmannd  wrote:</h4> <h4>It tried to see if 1) you could create a plug-in battery powered locomotive.  </h4> <h4>2) Could you successfully charge and discharge a large array of batteries in locomotive service.</h4> <h4>3) How effective could regenerative braking be in such a locomotive.</h4> <h4><br />I think the answers so far are 1) yes - it exists  </h4> <h4>2) No - not yet at least and 3) </h4> <h4>not known, I think - until #2 gets resolved.</h4> <p><br />Seeking to hear  some good news about 2) + 3) in future.<br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />-lars</p> <p> </p> <p>edit:</p> <p>some updates here: AMG claims to achieve a capacity of 68 kW and the actual one ( 48 kW ) weights just 183lb. A proposed 0.82kWh per kg.</p>
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