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NEVER BEEN FUCKING DONE BEFORE (technically never before because this bazinga train weighs down the train with on board batteries) (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by UlyssesT@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
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Christ, even the lettering on the side... younger me from the 90s would be baffled to find out how sick current me could get of cyberpunkerinos aesthetics. debord-tired

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[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It's just branding, because it's a shuttle service between a mainline stop in a nearby village and their Gigafactory outside Berlin.

The best part is that this train isn't made by Tesla, it's just them leasing battery trains from Siemens, and they don't even operate them:

Tesla plans to switch to operating battery-electric trains from the Mireo Smart family, manufactured by Siemens, replacing diesel trains currently transporting employees to their factory near Berlin.

[...]

The trains will be leased from the newly established leasing company, Smart Train Lease, founded by Siemens in early 2024. The operation of the trains will continue to be managed by the passenger transport operator Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NEB).

Source: https://www.railway.supply/en/tesla-is-transitioning-to-environmentally-friendly-trains/

[–] Fossifoo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

According to German Natopedia it's a shuttle that Tesla pays for and is allowed to operate only until the regular train station is moved by a few hundred meters closer to the factory (in 2026). So I guess in this case it absolutely makes sense to lease a battery powered train for the trainsition period.

But yeah, the reporting is pure brain worms for an entirely mundane regional public transport process.

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

I didn't know that. That makes this train a little less absurd, at least.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

They're not even putting Tesla-brand batteries in the train which could kind of make sense? Lol

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's a train ffs what is the point of using fucking batteries that will run out you can just run electricity through the track jfc

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

Like so many things my-hero he said it should be that way and anyone in a position to disagree didn't want to get fired.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think it is the same liberal self-reliance brainworms that makes them hate trains in the first place where having to rely on external resources you share with others is considered bad by definition. Riding a car is better than riding a train that you share with others and where you depend on others. Riding a self-powered battery train is better than riding one that is dependent on an external power source that is shared with other trains.

It's pure ideology.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

God I hate this style of tech reporting that's just advertising in disguise

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

I gave up on TIME magazine and related rags decades ago because they became advertising for techbros, and not just the designated ads.

"WILL THIS BABY LIVE FOREVER?!" bazinga hype on the covers, even.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

my-hero "What if electric train, but nowhere near as efficient, costs more to produce, can catch fire and burn for two weeks straight, and has my brand's trademark jank?"

libbing-out "EPICALLY MEMED, MY MEME LORD!"

[–] regul@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

just run a wire jfc

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

King Bazinga didn't think of that, and if anyone suggested that, they'd have gotten fired.

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Given how old battery-powered electric cars are, I doubt this is actually new.

Edit:

Experiments with accumulator railcars, as they were originally called, were conducted from around 1890 in Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy. Full implementation of battery trains were undertaken with various degrees of success. In the U.S., railcars of the Edison-Beach type, with nickel-iron batteries were used from 1911. In New Zealand, a battery-electric Edison railcar with a range of 160 km (99 mi) operated from 1926 to 1934 on the 34 km (21 mi) long Little River Branch line. The Drumm nickel-zinc battery was used on four 2-car sets between 1932 and 1946 on the Harcourt Street Line in Ireland. British Railways used lead-acid batteries in a British Rail BEMU from 1958 to 1966 on the 38 mile long Aberdeen to Ballater line in Scotland.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I stand corrected there, then.

I figured if something was amiss with the train and the corpo news claims about it, train enthusiasts would find out quickly.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

There's a company called SunTrain that's actually doing something kinda useful in this field by creating battery cars.

The idea is that you charge them up in one place then roll the energy to where it's needed. So you can spool up remote solar and wind without needing to run transmission lines or drop them in areas where there was a natural disaster and the rail lines are functional before power distribution.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's pretty sad that wow-cool-robot cyberpunkerino became just an aesthetic, even if it's admittedly a good one. Guess it's not that surprising considering William Gibson is a massive lib.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If public non(directly)porn treat printer forums and communities are any indication, the main purpose of cyberpunkerino aesthetics is infinite waifus that get a special chud-approved waiver for unnatural hair colors.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The irony of Musk co-opting cyberpunkerino is funny though, because he doesn't even realize he's the Tessier-Ashpool.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

He used to post JC Denton memes while being a worse Bob Page.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Giga Train

That's false advertising for a perfectly normal-sized train.

Mind blowing passenger capacity

Looks like it has about the same passenger capacity as any other train. Is this the bazinga crowd discovering how effective trains are?

Battery powered

Just build catenaries! It's the superior technology. We figured that out more than a century ago.