Draft:List of battery operated trams

This is a list of rail based trams, streetcars and light rail transit systems that use batteries or supercapacitor and run catenary free as part of their regular operation.

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Location	Name of System	Vehicles	System Distance	Battery Distance	Notes
Kaohsiung	Circular light rail	CAF Urbos, Citadis 305	13.7 mi (22.0 km)	13.7 mi (22.0 km)
Nanjing	Nanjing Trams	CRRC Nanjing Puzhen	10.7 mi (17.2 km)	9.63 mi (15.50 km)	Charging is at stations (46s) and endpoints (10min)
Seoul	Wirye Line	Hyundai Rotem and Woojin Industrial Systems	3.38 mi (5.44 km)	3.38 mi (5.44 km)	In testing, batteries and fuel cells

Location	Name of System	Vehicles	System Distance	Battery Distance	Notes
Barcelona	Trambesòs
Basel	Trams in Basel
Birmingham	West Midlands Metro
Blackpool	Blackpool Tramway
Bordeaux	Bordeaux Tramway
Florence	Trams in Florence
Luxembourg	Trams in Luxembourg City
Nice	Nice tramway	Citadis 405	17.1 mi (27.5 km)	Line 1: 0.6 mi (0.97 km)	Line 1 uses batteries. Line 2/3 make use of Ground-level power supply and supercapacitors
Mannheim	Trams in Mannheim/Ludwigshafen
Marseille	Marseille tramway	CAF Urbos 100X	11.9 mi (19.2 km)		Vehicles delivered, not clear if any track is wireless yet
Seville	MetroCentro (Seville)
Timișoara	STPT (transport operator)	Bozankaya	24 mi (39 km)		Vehicles delivered, not clear if any track is wireless yet

Location	Name of System	Vehicles	System Distance	Battery Distance	Notes
Charlotte	CityLynx Gold Line	Siemens S700	4 mi (6.4 km)	1.5 mi (2.4 km)
Dallas	Dallas Streetcar	Brookville Liberty Modern Streetcar ^[1]	2.45 mi (3.94 km)	1.1 mi (1.8 km)	Over the Houston Street Viaduct ^[2]
Detroit	QLine	Brookville Liberty Modern Streetcar ^[3]	3.3 mi (5.3 km)	1.98 mi (3.19 km) ^[3]
Milwaukee	The Hop	Brookville Liberty Modern Streetcar ^[4]	M-Line: 2.1 mi (3.4 km) L-Line: 2 mi (3.2 km)	M-Line: 3,300 ft (1.0 km) ^[5] L-Line: 3,800 ft (1.2 km) ^[6]
Oklahoma City	Oklahoma City Streetcar	Brookville Liberty Modern Streetcar	5.6 mi (9.0 km)	Several hundred feet	Under the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway bridges^[7]
Phoenix	Valley Metro Streetcar	Brookville Liberty Modern Streetcar	3 mi (4.8 km)	1 mi (1.6 km)	Historic downtown of Tempe
Seattle	First Hill Streetcar	Inekon 121 Trio	2.5 mi (4.0 km)	2.5 mi (4.0 km)	Broadway/South Jackson St - conflict with trollybus wire, runs up-hill on wire, down-hill on battery

Location	Name of System	Vehicles	System Distance	Battery Distance	Notes
Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro Light Rail	Citadis 402	17 mi (27 km)	3.4 mi (5.5 km)	Uses Ground-level power supply instead of catenary
Santos	Baixada Santista Light Rail ^[8]

Location	Name of System	Vehicles	System Distance	Battery Distance	Notes
Canberra	Light rail in Canberra	CAF Urbos 3	7.5 mi (12.1 km)	0 mi (0 km)	Existing vehicles are in process of being retrofitted with batteries, 1.7 mi (2.7 km) extension to open in 2028 (wire-free)
Newcastle	Newcastle Light Rail	CAF Urbos 100	1.7 mi (2.7 km)	1.7 mi (2.7 km)	Supercapacitor

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