Electric DARTs will service Dublin and Drogheda by 2025

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Electric and battery power DARTs will be serving passengers on the Dublin to Drogheda route by the end of next year.

Construction of 185 green carriages began at the Alstom factory in Poland in 2021 and - despite COVID delays - will be completed in 2025.“It’s subject to certain things like climatic conditions and things like that but the worst case it’s 80 km,” he said.and it will run into Dublin City and then back to Drogheda to be recharged at the end of its journey.reports from Poland, where he got a sneak preview of the new trains set to make their debut with Irish Rail next year.

In 2022, 85% of Iarnród Éireann’s emissions came from the use of diesel fuel for its road and rail operations. The company is committed to reducing its 51% by the end of the decade and Chief Executive Jim Meade promised they would do so by pursuing “innovative solutions to green energy generation, the use of alternative fuels and improvements to our buildings and existing fleets to reduce energy consumption.”Taoiseach pays first official visit to Northern Ireland

 

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