Vale (VALE) announced a partnership with Wabtec Corporation (WAB) to advance the decarbonization of the company’s rail operations. The deal includes an order for three of Wabtec’s FLXdrive battery locomotives and a collaboration to test ammonia as a potential clean, alternative fuel to replace diesel. The three 100% battery powered FLXdrive locomotives will be used on the Carajas Railroad, or EFC, which runs the world’s largest iron ore train consisting of 330 railcars transporting 45,000 tons. Today, three to four diesel locomotives pull the train. Once delivered, the FLXdrives will join the diesel locomotives to form Brazil’s first hybrid consist pulling the train uphill for 140 kilometers in Acailandia, in the state of Maranhao, where fuel consumption is the highest. The FLXdrives will replace the two diesel locomotives, known as “dynamic helpers”, that are used to pull the train uphill today. Wabtec will build the FLXdrive locomotives at its plant in Contagem. The locomotives’ delivery is forecast for 2026.
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