Peak performance: ABB technology powers new cable car Zugspitze
Zurich, Switzerland, December 21, 2017 - Company’s state-of-the-art motors and drives ensure safety and reliability on record-setting gondola system for Germany’s highest mountainLong queues waiting to ascend Germany’s tallest mountain may now be history. And that is not the only thing historical about the new ABB-powered cable car system that opened today and can take as many as 580 passengers an hour to the Zugspitze, the Bavarian Alps peak that is Germany’s highest. The cableway breaks three world records for a pendular, or hanging, cable car system: at 127 meters, its steel column is