Domestic and National Pride E5000 Electric Mainline Locomotive is on the Rails

Domestic and National Pride E5000 Electric Mainline Locomotive is on the Rails
The national electric mainline locomotive E5000, produced at the TÜRASAŞ Eskişehir factory, was lowered onto the tracks with a ceremony attended by our President Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan via live connection. At the ceremony, Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Enver Iskurt, General Manager of TÜRASAŞ Mustafa Metin Yazar, Deputy Governor of Eskişehir Kübra Kurtoğlu Vural, President of TUBITAK Prof. Dr. Hasan Mandal, TCDD Transportation A.Sh. General Manager Ufuk Yalcin, TCDD General Manager Hasan Pezuk and a large number of participants took their places.
 The E5000 Electric Mainline Locomotive is a new generation locomotive with a minimum power of 5000 kW, AC-AC drive system, TSI certification and a speed of 140 km/h. It has been designed and produced in a highly domestic and national manner, especially the Traction System, TKYS, Transformer, APU, Converter unit, which are very critical and very important components in the locomotive sector.

The Project of the "First” and "Most"
The electric mainline locomotive contains many firsts both for its own class and for Turkey's rail systems adventure. This electric locomotive has the first vehicle body, the first spark plug, the first train control and management system, the highest power electric motor, the highest power traction converter, the most powerful traction transformer and the most powerful auxiliary power unit domestically designed for mainline locomotives. All the main components developed for the electric locomotive are important in terms of having critical technology that can be exported as a separate product. Each of the traction motors designed by TUBITAK RUTE and manufactured by TÜRASAŞ Eskişehir Regional Directorate has a power of 1280 kW and has the feature of the highest power traction motor designed in our country to date. Similarly, each of the traction converters in the locomotive has a power of 2.5 MW and is the most powerful high voltage traction converter designed in our country for a rail system vehicle.

It Will Assume an Important Role in Exports
Established as a leading company in the production of vehicles and components needed in the railway sector, TÜRASAŞ has become the largest representative of our country's rail system vehicles sector with integrated facilities that produce national and domestic technologies in 3 regions. When the E5000 Locomotives become a commercial product, the design and production processes will be completed with domestic and national facilities and will play an important role in closing the current account deficit of our country.
Sundays Tuzobi locomotive, which has a modern new generation AC driving system, has a power of 5 MW and a speed of 140 km / h and will provide the opportunity to use both passenger and freight transportation, will also take its place in the sector for the overseas market due to its TSI certificate.