• neidu2@feddit.nl
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    13 days ago

    Now, imagine this revolutionary improvement: Find a way of putting the energy source outside of the train somehow, and save on weight by not hauling those heavy batteries around.

    Christ, the amount of times techbros and tesla fanboys have accidentally “invented” trains and trams these past few years is beyond stupid…

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      13 days ago

      Well a battery electric train is probably useful for those routes with a section that isn’t powered.

      Not sure if it would be awfully cleaner than a diesel electric train, because those are already pretty efficient as I understand it.

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      12 days ago

      Ok but that’s infrastructure and we don’t pay for that (for real though we need to upgrade our outdated catenaries)