Electric Freight Cars And The End Of The Two-Mile Train

13 Sep 2023 | Abstracted from Clean Technica

"Parallel Systems' electric [freight cars] can operate solo or as units in a platoon, capable of attaching and detaching themselves as the need arises...aims for its electric vehicles to compete with diesel trucks for a share of the nation’s freight hauling business.

"...individually powered electric vehicles appear to have the advantage over long strings of deadweight freight cars...less than 3% of the 143,000 miles of track in the US are currently occupied by a train at any time."

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