[FR / Expert] Bombardier and SNCF: Batteries for the AGC fleet

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France has many unique trains. Such is the case with the ‘Autorail à grande capacité’, or AGC in short. Around seven hundred of these trains have been operating across France since 2004. Approaching their mid-life, the first five trains will be retrofitted with a battery.

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