Researchers show economic, environmental and grid-resilience benefits of converting diesel trains to battery-electric
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Improved battery technology plus access to cheap renewable electricity open the possibility of battery-electric rail. Conversion of the US freight rail sector to battery-electric would generate about 220 gigawatt-hours of mobile storage. An open-access paper on their study appears in the journal Nature Energy.
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