Kochi becomes India’s First City with Water Metro Project

Kochi becomes India’s First City with Water Metro Project

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Category : State Published on: January 12 2022

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Kochi has become the first city with a water metro project as it launches the first in a series of battery-powered electric boats in the city.
The new project by the Kochi Metro Rail Ltd will likely have an integrated water transport system with 15 identified routes.
It will connect 10 islands along a network of routes that span 76 km with a fleet of 78 fast, electrically propelled hybrid ferries plying to 38 jetties.
This project has a total cost of Rs 819 crore. It uses LTO batteries, which is the latest in battery technology with a capability for fast charging.
it is the first time in the world a centrally controlled integrated water transport system with a large fleet is powered by a battery.
Kochi Metro Rail plans to operate 23 boats — each having a capacity to carry 100 passengers — this year on 15 routes. The headways would vary between 10 to 20 minutes across various routes at peak hours.

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