Key takeaways:

Gearboxes will have 6 gears instead of 8.

The cars will have to use 30kg of fuel only to generate electric power.

The wheelbase will be shortened by 30 cm

  • egonallanon@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    No generally you can get really good efficiency out of doing that. Lost of rail locomotives do that and are pretty efficient.

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      1 year ago

      Electric trains work for a few reasons, multiple cars can be driven without giving up cargo space, the amount of power put down can be much higher, and wheel slippage can be managed almost instantaneously. These gains allow electric trains to overcome the loss due to electric generation and storage.