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'UK first' battery powered train slashes fuel costs by up to 50 per cent (www.businessgreen.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

What are you talking about?

Batteries have planety of drawbacks compared to overhead wires.

  • Weight - Batteries way a LOT, meaning that locomotives need to be stronger, meaning they will be heavier, meaning that need stronger bridges and sturdier tracks.
  • Lifetime - Batteries are consumed as they are used and recharged, they are also not as easy/cheap to replace as pantographs.
  • Range - Batteries has limited range, normal electric trains have unlimited range.
  • Charge time - Batteries need charging, normal electric trains does not.

Normal electric trains are technically the ideal transportation, you have unlimited range and don't need to carry the fuel.