• teolan@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    But even in that case it’s 10x better to have more frequent, cheaper diesel trains than having insanely expensive and heavy battery trains.

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        2 months ago

        That’s not going to happen within the lifetime of the batteries of the trains though.

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      2 months ago

      Well, they’d only need enough batteries to cover the distance without overhead lines. So for shortish sections it’s probably fine, just charge while on the powered section.