Tesla's Germany factory is going to have a train service that will transport its workers for free, which cool, train good. But a number of the usual suspects (Teslarati and other Tesla/Elon loving media) are claiming that Tesla are launching the train as if it had built the train. In some cases adding its "mind-blowing" capacity (its the same as a regular train).
Here's the kicker: Tesla only slapped its name on a train built by Seimens, using batteries manufactured by Toshiba
On related note I was reading about electric trains and how are so few in America electric compared to many countries?
Powerful car lobbies, the same ones that destroyed trolley and other mass transit systems early in the 20th century.
Fuck cars.
To add to this, the most successful locomotive lineups in American freight and passenger service (SD, GP, F) were manufactured by GM for the longest time before being handed off to another corporation. So naturally it was in their vested interest for trains to run on oil.
Dieselbrains like to peddle the excuse that we couldn't run double stack freight on electric lines but the NEC seems to handle it well.
Read the figure that 38% of rails worldwide are electrified or something. Surely some can double stack?
if septa can do it anyone can
jk I've never been to philly
There are less electric railways in USA than in Uzbekistan.