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Originally Posted by Big Dave
Mountain passes are the first places to electrify but by no means the only ones.
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Sure. I was just thinking of mountain passes as the place to start, where you'd get most "bang for buck". Then maybe the next step would be short distances out of rail yards, so the trains could get up to speed on electric power. Then build out until you get complete runs done...
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You realize this technology could be made to work on the Interstate for Class 8 trucks. Hang catenaries on the right lane...
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And in cities, too. Where I lived in Europe, the city buses were mostly electric (except for some longer routes out to more suburban areas). Build it here, with some sort of cost-accounting method to allow delivery trucks to use the same system. You'd have some sort of hybrid, that'd charge off the catenary on main roads, then run on battery into neighborhoods...