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CPTM Series 9500
🇧🇷 Brazil ·built by Hyundai Rotem· from 2017· Class of electric multiple units
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CPTM 9500: Governo do Estado de São Paulo· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The CPTM Series 9500 is a class of electric multiple units part of the São Paulo Metropolitan Trains rolling stock, built by Hyundai Rotem from 2017 to 2019.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 9 years ago, in 2017.
- 4.3 MW is about 51 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 30 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 170 m long: about 38 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 2,600: 52 full city buses (~50 seats each).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2017
- in service from
- 2017
- status
- in service
- number built
- 30
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- builders
- Hyundai Rotem
- operators
- TIC Trens, Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos
- top speed
- 90 km/h
- power
- 4.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- electric system
- overhead line
- formation
- 8-car sets (MC–R1–R2–M+M–R2–R1–MC)
- length
- 170 m
- weight
- 179 t
- capacity
- 2,600 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q56350962, Wikipedia: CPTM Series 9500 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.