It's also just an outright lie. But, I guess that doesn't matter anymore.

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

World's first all-electric train. 1881.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_trams#Electric

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..

Based on this dumpster fire of a headline, I think the take-away can only be that Siemens and other train manufacturers have to start calling their trains "OMEGA RAIL" and "CHUNGUS 3000" or shit like that so it's worth a news article.

Wait til they learn about twin story trains. Twice the capacity!

Edit: And the first gen, a bit less comfortable tho but more reliable.

Is this like how Apple invented the headphones?

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:

Edit:

Now that I have taken a closer look I question if the "Tesla" train is even a double decker or actually the Mireo

Edit 2:

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

Edit 3:

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

The logo on the front is from the NEB, Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn AG, which runs in German province's of Berlin and Brandenburg. No way in hell the Muskrat MAGAT is going to build trains.

Lol how novel, I use an all electric train every work day, a Stadler Class 777/1 electric multiple-unit fitted with batteries (BEMU).

Hype over fake news like this is one major reason how tesla's stock price has gotten as high as it has.

The far more important question however is:

Why tf did they use the color scheme of bwegt?

I may be an idiot, but I'm 99% certain that this color scheme is only used in Baden-Württemberg - a state that's like 500km away from the Tesla factory.

oh, Adam Something is going to have a field day with this.

We copied 1960 technology, declared it revolutionary and act as if we invented it all

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

🎶 "I'm a connnnnn mann, or maybe I'm a god? Zoomin‘ round the planet, in my hyper loopin‘ pod..." 🎶

tesla launches train

hey ive seen this episode before; the ending sucked

Batteries are heavy, Surely there must another way to supply energy to the train...?

even Amtrak beat tesla

Yahoo is just a terrible news source in general tbh

Yahoo, the cowboys of journalism.