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Chollima-091
🇰🇵 North Korea ·built by Pyongyang Trolleybus Factory· from 2010· trolleybus of North Korea
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Chollima-091-193: MBxd1· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Chollima-091-187: MBxd1· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Chollima-091-195-h1: MBxd1· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Chollima-091-XXX-02: MBxd1· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Chollima-091 (Korean: 천리마-091) is a high-floor, articulated trolleybus built from 2009 to 2018 by Pyongyang Trolleybus Factory for the Pyongyang trolleybus system. The name refers to the Chollima Movement which in itself derives from the mythological Chollima while the model number means year of development 2009, model 1. Since the 1960s, most of the trolleybuses in Pyongyang were named after this mythological creature.
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 16 years ago, in 2010.
- Weighs about as much as 2 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.6 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 2010
- in service from
- 2010
- status
- in service
- number built
- 200
- kind
- tram / light rail
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇰🇵 North Korea
- builders
- Pyongyang Trolleybus Factory
- top speed
- 86 km/h
- power
- 130 kW
- electric system
- 550-600V DC
- length
- 17.6 m
- weight
- 14.7 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4518461, Wikipedia: Chollima-091 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.