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xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas (xkcd.com)
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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that's the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

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[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 21 points 4 months ago

I hope you are not talking about battery locomotives.

With overhead wires the train has a practically unlimited battery capacity.

[-] EarMaster@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

There are use cases for battery trains. In remote, mountainous locations where the cost for electrifying a track is very high it is not uncommon to use electric trains with batteries. Here in Germany we have several regions where diesel trains have been replaced by them.

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