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[-] pedz@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Nope. They tried hydrogen trains in Germany and are not buying more of them.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/hydrogen-train-germany/

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

How do battery operated work? Are they short rage trains? Or do they have like a car full of batteries? And how do recharge times work? Can they recharge just in the stations? If it works for them, great. And it sounds like it is. It just seemed like there were several problems.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Battery locomotives don't have enough range to be useful solo, but they're a handy to add on to an existing train to give it regenerative braking and improve it's efficiency.

You want practically zero emissions train, you build overhead catenary wires. But that's decades old tech that just works, it's not sexy futuristic stuff.

[-] BarelyOriginal@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know, have you seen those wires above the rails? They always look sexy and futuristic to me, especially the high speed rail ones 🥵

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