Christ, even the lettering on the side… younger me from the 90s would be baffled to find out how sick current me could get of cyberpunkerinos aesthetics. 
Christ, even the lettering on the side… younger me from the 90s would be baffled to find out how sick current me could get of cyberpunkerinos aesthetics.
It’s just branding, because it’s a shuttle service between a mainline stop in a nearby village and their Gigafactory outside Berlin.
The best part is that this train isn’t made by Tesla, it’s just them leasing battery trains from Siemens, and they don’t even operate them:
Source: https://www.railway.supply/en/tesla-is-transitioning-to-environmentally-friendly-trains/
According to German Natopedia it’s a shuttle that Tesla pays for and is allowed to operate only until the regular train station is moved by a few hundred meters closer to the factory (in 2026). So I guess in this case it absolutely makes sense to lease a battery powered train for the trainsition period.
But yeah, the reporting is pure brain worms for an entirely mundane regional public transport process.
I didn’t know that. That makes this train a little less absurd, at least.
They’re not even putting Tesla-brand batteries in the train which could kind of make sense? Lol