#6066
Škoda 21Ev
🇪🇪 Estonia ·built by Škoda Transportation· from 2025· electric multiple unit passenger train
what is it?
The Škoda 21Ev is a dual-system electric multiple unit (EMU) passenger train made by Škoda Vagonka A.S for the Estonian national rail operator Elron, which can drive on electrified tracks equipped with both 3kV DC and 25kV AC overhead electric lines. The Škoda 21Ev is part of Škoda's RegioPanter family of trains. Estonia's neighboring Baltic state Latvia also operates a train of the same class, called Škoda 16Ev operated by Vivi, a Latvian rail operator.
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 1 years ago, in 2025.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 26 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 83.2 m long: about 18 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 236: 5 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
- 2025
- in service from
- 2025
- number built
- 16
- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇪🇪 Estonia
- builders
- Škoda Transportation, Škoda Vagonka
- operators
- Elron
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
- electric system
- 3kV DC & 25kV AC OHLE
- length
- 83.2 m
- weight
- 158 t
- capacity
- 236 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q135649344, Wikipedia: Škoda 21Ev (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.