MÁV FLIRT Fleet Reaches 300 Million Kilometers with Stadler

During the 300 million km travelled, the fleet saved operator MÁV about 250 million euros in electricity for traction, which represents about a third of the total fleet’s purchase value. If we add that the fleet has also achieved this performance in a third of its planned lifetime, then it is expected that at the end of their life cycle, thanks only to lower energy consumption, they will bring back the purchase value completely. In addition, the maintenance of new types of modern trains also represents a significant saving for operators, so taking into account the additional benefits, it can be said that upgrading the rolling stock is a worthwhile investment.

The Stadler trains of the Swiss railway company - with a distance completed of at least 200 thousand kilometers each year - are counted as “workhorse” of the vehicle fleet of MÁV. Due to their reliability and high availability, Stadler trains (with the addition of double-decker KISS and tram-trains) provide about 1/3 of the total mileage of MÁV, so it is estimated that every second passenger travels with these vehicles in Hungary.

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