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The whole point of electric is to improve environmental impact. Wasting energy by moving those batteries is contrary to that goal.
by qarl 2y ago
The whole point of electric is to improve environmental impact.
Wasting energy by moving those batteries is contrary to that goal.
- fragmede 2y agoit's not like running a wire for great lengths is ecologically neutral either though, and power transmission lines have losses too. We'd have to see some actual numbers before deciding if moving heavy batteries is better or worse than having an electrified wire.
- qarl 2y agoI guess I don't see the big issue with running a wire when you already must run a much larger and more complex track. And yes, we'd need to see numbers to be certain, but my intuition tells me that transmission losses won't come close to hauling all that weight.