The new Parisian metros arrived in 2025, but their technology is already exceeded

Île-de-France Mobilités has unveiled the new metros that will enter service in Paris at the end of 2025. Expected for a long time, they have embarked a new LED lighting system, fewer seats for a better arrangement space, as well as USB ports to recharge your smartphone.

The new bars of the Paris metro equipped with old USB ports

As reported Numeramaalthough the trains are equipped with USB ports to allow recharging during the journey, the connection chosen by IDF Mobilités is limited to USB-A. However, this type of port belongs to an older generation, while the European Union has decided to generalize USB-C as a new standard. Since December 31, 2024, devices and smartphones must be equipped with a USB-C port; This is what had led Apple to Remove some iPhone models of its stores in Europe at the end of the year.

If the new MF19 metros are planned to be in service for several decades, IDF Mobilités has confirmed to the media Tech & Co that the connection of the first control wave will not be changed. Commissioned in 2016 and built from 2019, these metros then responded to the USB-A standard, which was in force on these dates.

This information on the “obsolete” USB ports which will equip the first trains of the new Parisian metro, however, remains to be qualified: priority remains on rapid commissioning, since expected for years.