Yea totally why large companies are still pursuing it, apparently you and all the EV fanboys know something they don’t.
Also you saying it’s really hard to do something is like the same people who said we shouldn’t be flying, it’s to hard. That’s not how innovation works. To you eating raw meat and living in caves is where humanity should have stopped apparently, because everything else is hard to do.
frezik@midwest.social 1 month ago
Or an overhead wire and don’t worry about batteries.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Overhead lines are almost as expensive as laying the track in the first place though.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not if you do it simultaneously… cost is higher than just rail, but rains wouldn’t have range limits at all, and would weigh less, meaning less energy used to accelerate (and better emergency brake response).
I’m very pro EV, but even more a fan of distributed power systems that aren’t chemical based.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 month ago
That ship has, for the most part, sailed though.