Just wow… So if you look closely at the picture, you can barely see the number '563' on the train. If you have a look at list of locomotives and railbuses iof DB on Wikipedia, you can see that this train is a Siemens Mireo.
Now, let's take the headline apart. Is it the first all-electric trai… no! Is it the first accumulator train? Also no, as you can see in the list above, the class 515 exists and the Stadler Flirt Akku has been used on a line since October 2023, Is it the first Siemens Mireo Plus B being used? You guess what, nope. As an example, SWEG is using some of them to bridge non-electrified parts of the track since April 2024.
So finally, what is special about the Gigatrain? (gosh, I actually really dislike that name) In February 2024, the subsidary 'Smart Train Lease GmbH' of Siemens Mobility has been announced. There you can also lease two Siemens Mireo Plus Bs. Tesla is their very first client. That's it
Whoops, got longer as expected. In case I made small mistakes, feel free to point it out
The train also only runs between Erkner Station, and Tesla Sud, which is literally just the station right at the Tesla manufacturing facility in the area.
"It's also free to not just Tesla employees, but regular passengers as well."
That's great and all, but are everyday people taking trains to go see the outside of a Tesla factory, then leaving again?
What the... this is so infuriating to a railfan. It's like they are trying to attach a 2x viewer multiplier by putting Elon-related keyword in it when Tesla has so little to do with it.
It's not a Tesla train, nor a battery from Tesla, nor operated by Tesla, not even a new route (but granted an expanded timetable)
I wish media hyped trains like this in general and not limited to implicitly attributing it to Musk (who made hyperloop specifically to distract from High Speed Rail, mind you)... "GIGA TRAIN brings commuters to work", "Hyper train first electric regional service in California - you won't believe the capacity!"
Generally, I'm against violence towards journalists - but dishonest and manipulative headlines like this tend to make me reconsider my stance, if but for a moment.
Now, imagine this revolutionary improvement: Find a way of putting the energy source outside of the train somehow, and save on weight by not hauling those heavy batteries around.
Christ, the amount of times techbros and tesla fanboys have accidentally "invented" trains and trams these past few years is beyond stupid..
NO WAY! Did they just copy the Siemens Mireo and made it a double decker
It looks even more obvious in the German version of the site where the first picture is literally this one:
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Now that I have taken a closer look I question if the "Tesla" train is even a double decker or actually the Mireo
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And I am unsure if Yahoo just used a random train as their cover or if this is the Tesla train in question. I am so confused O.o
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Soo it's not a double decker and it is "Tesla's train" sooo... If I was Tesla I'd get back to the drawing board because I doubt Siemens will be happy with what they did here
Hype over fake news like this is one major reason how tesla's stock price has gotten as high as it has.
I am amazed at how people ate still surpised...
Tesla paid about 15k for this article and money like that gets you a cute headline.
This is "journalism" 101, this is part of their business model.
Screw Elon
tesla launches train
hey ive seen this episode before; the ending sucked
🎶 "I'm a connnnnn mann, or maybe I'm a god? Zoomin‘ round the planet, in my hyper loopin‘ pod..." 🎶
Yahoo, the cowboys of journalism.
The train itself isn’t plastered with logos and tesla has no way to manufacture trains. What is this screenshot from?
How many bad forms of transportation do you think he has to saddle the world with to sate his ego about the hyperloop turning out to be a totally unworkable lie?
Lol this look exactly like the regina västtågen uses... they are electric, fast, comfortable, a LOT of people fit on them(commuter train).
Hilarious they used 'giga' train. Rob and Elon just did that Diablo 4 stream the other day and Rob says 'giga' 6x per video. Clearly rubbed off on old Elon.
"Mind blowing" passenger train... If it would be able to teleport itself, sure.
I think the prompt was: write an article about this train and give it some extra oomph
