NEW YORK — Wabtec’s FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive project has been named “Commercial Technology of the Year” at the annual Platts Global Energy Award ceremony, held last week.
In a Commodity Insights Magazine report, judges indicated they liked the fact that Wabtec “has engaged a lot of customers” and is “already generating revenue” from the project.
The company has orders for the battery-powered locomotive from Union Pacific [see “Union Pacific orders 20 battery-electric …,” Trains News Wire, Jan. 28, 2022], as well as Canadian National and Australian mining companies Rio Tinto , BHP, and Roy Hill. Kazsakhstan’s national railway placed what is by far the largest order for FLXdrive locomotives to date when it ordered 150 switchers in September [see “Wabtec signs deal …,” News Wire, Sept. 20, 2022].
