define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); Comments on: The “World’s First Solar Train”     is in Reality a Battery Train https://www.cat-bus.com/2017/12/the-worlds-first-solar-powered-train-is-in-reality-a-battery-powered-train/ Anton Dubrau's blog about maps, transit ideas and implementations Mon, 01 Jan 2018 06:31:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: ant6n https://www.cat-bus.com/2017/12/the-worlds-first-solar-powered-train-is-in-reality-a-battery-powered-train/comment-page-1/#comment-5747 Mon, 01 Jan 2018 06:31:01 +0000 http://www.cat-bus.com/?p=531#comment-5747 Ha! I didn’t consider that. My point was to do some back-of-the-envelope calculation to see viability at its most basic level (i.e. order of magnitude). BART is simply a rapid transit example for which power usage numbers are available.

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By: mare https://www.cat-bus.com/2017/12/the-worlds-first-solar-powered-train-is-in-reality-a-battery-powered-train/comment-page-1/#comment-5746 Mon, 01 Jan 2018 05:44:16 +0000 http://www.cat-bus.com/?p=531#comment-5746 Cool, a battery train.

Nitpick: a large part of the BART network (30% of the stations) runs underground, where there’s not much sun, so those calculations are probably a bit too optimistic. Not that it matters, I doubt even in SF anybody is crazy enough to put solar panels on trains.

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