The first battery-powered locomotive manufactured by China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation Dalian Co. Ltd was launched on Wednesday to aid Thailand's efforts to improve its railway service while cutting carbon emissions.

The first battery-powered locomotive manufactured by China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) Dalian Co. Ltd was launched in Bangkok on Wednesday to aid Thailand's efforts to improve its railway service while cutting carbon emissions.

  • iridaniotter [she/her, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    China has some hydrogen trains as well. A few questionable projects among a sea of good transit. Maybe they're trying to grift international investors lol.

    • CTHlurker [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Doesn't almost every Chinese official have slightly different plans for how to actually create mass transit that works? And due to china's enormous size and population, every single province keeps trying slight variations of the same plans, to see what works best?

      • kristina [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        The train fan community in China is absolutely huge and absurdly influential, they have a lot of granulated opinions on mass transit. The biggest forum I found for it had like 40 million users

        • CTHlurker [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Oh theres no question that China really likes their trains. I'm just commenting on the absurd amount of independence that governors of provinces are allowed by the central government, in particular if said governor can make a good case for why his specific idea should be tested out.

          • kristina [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            Ooh ok. Yeah there is a lot of differences between each state

          • kristina [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            i dont remember the name at all, id have to find an image i was interested in and reverse search it on baidu to find it, but i looked into it like 2 years ago too so no way i find that image

            if you wanna search it have fun lmao

      • Fishroot [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Pretty much. The central government usually would have a general idea of what they want to accomplish it. The local level will test and find ways to solve the problem.

        If there is a winning formula, the central government would be interested to adopt it on bigger and bigger scale.

        There was an article about the credit system and it studies pilot projects from 2 cities and how they wanted to implement in their respective cities (how and what is consider punishable, what are the rewards, etc)