• CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world
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      44 minutes ago

      Kind of a different scale. $5.15 billion per mile of track for Caltrain. Aptera hasn’t even broken a billion in funding.

    • Ross_audio@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Trains are easy and they’re easily electrified already. So putting solar on the trains won’t have any advantage.

      Rails are the difficult part of railways. They never seem to put them between my house and my work. They’ve put something called a road in between instead.

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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        6 hours ago

        I presume they meant to put in railway infrastructure.

        Railways cost so much less than one highway, we could have a system basically from home to work.
        (eg smol trams to a midway se station to high-speed trains)