Caltrain's New Electric Trains

Re:Caltrain's New Electric Trains by Kim_Bruning on Thursday August 22, 2024 @04:45PM (#41324254)

"And other countries, like India, are moving much faster toward electrification."

Well a lot of countries are almost fully electric, and have been for decades?

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Re:Caltrain's New Electric Trains by tsudounym on Thursday August 22, 2024 @04:49PM (#41324287)

Where? Switzerland is 100% but most of continental Europe, Japan and Korea is in the 60-70%s. Then we got USA with 0.84%

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Re:Caltrain's New Electric Trains by genewitch on Thursday August 22, 2024 @07:09PM (#41325061)

100% of us freight trains use electric motors, I don't know about every passenger rail in the US, but I assure you electric drive is well over 0.84%

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Re:Caltrain's New Electric Trains by narism on Thursday August 22, 2024 @09:17PM (#41325541)

> 100% of US freight trains use electric motors

I think you mean diesel-electric. They are talking about electrified miles of track which is almost exclusively limited to passenger lines in the US. Even where freight trains run on electrified track, they still use diesel-electric motors.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_tr...

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Re:Caltrain's New Electric Trains by shekhar101 on Thursday August 22, 2024 @06:17PM (#41324795)

India is around 94% electrified and seems to be highest amongst larger countries.

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