Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives

Yeah, it's not all electric, some of the train is just regular matter

I did a little digging and it seems like there's a tiny kernel of fact at the core of this giant turd of a hype-piece, and that is the fact that they electrified this little spur line from Berlin to the new German Tesla factory by using a battery-electric trainset. Which is not a terrible solution for electrifying a very short branch line that presumably doesn't need frequent all-day service, even if it's a bit of a janky approach compared to overhead lines. But hand that off to the overworked, underpaid twenty-two-year old gig worker they've got doing "editing" at Yahoo for two bucks an article, and I guess it turns into "world-first electric wonder train amazes!"

For a second, though, I read the headline and wondered if Musk and co. had finally looped all the way around to reinventing commuter rail from first principles after all these years of trying to "disrupt" it with bullshit ideas like Hyperloop and Tunnels, But Dumber.

It's yahoo news. It's pure clickbait. Idk why they do this they have some decent other services.

It's not a lie! It's technically the first thing anybody was stupid enough to name "giga train"!

So. It's Teslas first train. That they bought?

I mean, I haven't seen a "Giga Train" before. Maybe it is the world's first.

They aren't saying it's the first electric train, they are saying it's the first all electric "Giga Train".

It's like how Bros kept trying to imply it was the first gay movie, or even first gay romcom, but it was the first gay romcom that was created and released by a major studio whose initial release was a "wide" release in more than one country.

cutie little vroomie :)

lol. They’re promoting their employee shuttle. Classic Felon.

Now just imagine how the hype is for literally everything they've ever done, and it's on the exact same level. Once Tesla/Musk does something related to your field, it's abundantly clear what an absolute fraud he is.

Well a battery electric train is probably useful for those routes with a section that isn't powered.

Not sure if it would be awfully cleaner than a diesel electric train, because those are already pretty efficient as I understand it.

I’d ride the CHUNGUS 3000.

From the industry journal I linked in another comment -- it's literally just an off-the-shelf Mireo Plus B. That's it. The only thing Tesla about it is that it's serving a spur line connecting Tesla's factory to the existing Berlin light rail network, and was presumably financed by them for the PR benefit of not having the workers at an electric car factory arrive by diesel train.

That’s literally the train I use everything I get to uni (and back).

You are a gigachad that lives in the future.

I imagine he's worn the fuck out ridiculing Melon Husk's bullshit.

And what happens when it ends up in shark-infested waters?

I think they do new aggregation rather than original reporting? Idk I haven't really looked at yahoo in about 20 years

Huge in Japan (though I think it's more that someone bought the rights to use the name rather than the yahoo of old IIRC).

I'd say it's a Siemens Mireo

The headline says worlds first all-electric train rather than worlds first all-battery-powered train. There have been many all-electric trains before. So the headline as written is incorrect.

Because the headline literally says "world's first all electric train", which it very much is not.

Besides the first all electric train bit, which is nonsense, it also touts the capacity of the train. It has 120 seats, which may be mind blowing to car heads, but for a train is rather on the low side. Regular passenger trains often have over 200 seats and many have more seats for the same length. For busy pieces of track 600 seats per train aren't unusual.

It really is like the author has never heard of trains before and has his mind blown by the concept.

Personally I think putting in batteries is kinda dumb, trains need so much infrastructure already and it's fixed in location. Adding a power delivery system (like overhead power lines like most electric trains have) is really easy. That way a lot of weight is saved, thus making the whole thing more efficient. You also don't need any special materials to make it, compared with huge batteries. And the wear components are a lot less expensive to replace.