Editing Utility Car (C0778)


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{{Train|name = Utility Cars|image =UtilityCarC0778.png |imagecaption = |car_no. = C0778-C0779|next_car = Unknown |previous_car = Unknown |class = [[3rd Class]]|length = ~65.0 meters|height = ~11.9 meters|width = ~8.8 meters|owners = [[Wilford_Industries_(series)|Wilford Industries]]|aka =Battery Cars |use = Storage, Energy Storage|sectionr = [[:Category:Snowpiercer (Series Train) Cars|Section 3.3]]|creator=[[Melanie_Cavill|Melanie Cavill]]<br>[[Joseph_Wilford|Joseph Wilford]]}}
'''Utility cars''' house payload space, but more importantly power banks to accumulate power as the train travels. After the civil war, at least 37 Battery Cars were offline<ref>[[994 Cars Long|S01E10 - 994 Cars Long]]</ref>. This suggests that large parts of [[Snowpiercer]] are dedicated to power reserves.

Melanie later drained the batteries to much trying to escape from Wilford. As a result, the train could never move on it’s own again and had no energy reserves to restart the bogie motors. However before the [[Pirate Train]] was created, [[Bojan Boscovic]] said [[Big Alice]] has enough juice for systems to survive. Which means Big Alice recharged the batteries, some point after the sabotage of [[The Engine]] and is powering Snowpiercer.

However, without Snowpiercer’s engine, the energy it provided was only enough to support essential systems on the train. As a result, it was minus degrees inside the train and all resources were rationed. First Class was even decommissioned by Wilford to save energy.

==History of C0778-C0779==
* Car C0778 is the car where [[Erik Sotto]] was killed by [[Jackboots]]. The same car later caused the Torreta Canyon Crisis when its hydraulic system went haywire.
* Car C0779 is where [[Andre Layton]] threatened to kill [[Melanie Cavill]].

==Technology==
The batteries in the car were developed by Solar Industries in Colorado, USA. They are Lead-acid batteries (''6-GFM-200/12V200Ah'') encased in a recycled aluminum shell.<ref name=":0">[[Trouble Comes Sideways|S01E06 - Trouble Comes Sideways]]</ref>

== Interior ==
Each car consists of three sections, with double internal bulkheads dividing them. To grant access through the door, a RFID [[Access Chip]] must be used. The battery section has several levels of batteries stacked in rows on each side of the car. While blue light illuminates the battery packs, they themselves have red indicators. The Utility section (mainly in the middle of the car) has a storage room divided by two RFID protected bars<ref name=":0" />. The [[Sub-Train]] is accessible in the battery section, by a hatch in the floor.

==Appearances==
:;Season One

:;* [[Without Their Maker]]
:;* [[Trouble Comes Sideways]]

==Trivia==
* The lifetime of this kind of battery is around 5-7 years.
* One of these batteries can charge a iPhone X around 73 times.
* Each battery has around the same power capacity as a Tesla Model 3 Standard Range.
* Ironically, the batteries carry a "Non Spillable" label.
* In [[Without Their Maker]], Erik Sotto shoots a electric box, in the Sub-Train. However, in [[Trouble Comes Sideways]], it’s a battery that leaks acid on to the floor and then into the Sub-Train and into a electrical box.

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
BatteryCarBTS.png|Battery section
Batery22.JPG|Interior
UtilityCar1.png|Interior
Batery1.JPG|Behind the scenes
BatteryCar.jpg|Layton being escorted through
BatteryCarAGSEC.png|Interior
BatteryCars.png|Interior
UtilityCar2.png|Cargo section
BaterryCar.png|Battery
KeepOutBattery.png|Sign
</gallery>
==References==
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