Researchers show economic, environmental and grid-resilience benefits of converting diesel trains to battery-electric
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Unlike several other regions in the world, all freight trains in the US are still diesel-electric, largely because the typical electrification strategy of building electrified lines over tracks is harder to implement in the US with its vast distances. The social cost of carbon emissions starts at US$125?t t –1 by 2040. Popovich et al.
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