BEIJING (Sputnik) – China’s first hybrid-power train will be tested next month, project officials said.
"The design team has already tackled technical issues such as weight control, noise and vibration," Li Xuefei, the project's chief engineer at CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co, a subsidiary of China Railway Rolling Stock Corp, said on Thursday, as quoted by China Daily.
The technical debugging phase will be completed by the end of May, while the train’s tests will start at the China Academy of Railway Sciences in June.
According to Li, the train can run either using a pantograph system, gathering power through contact with an overhead wire, using an internal combustion power pack, or a power battery pack.
The train’s speed will reach between 120 and 160 kilometers per hour (75-100 miles per hour).
