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- Title
TRAINS REINVENTED with Solar, Wind and Battery Power.
- Authors
Tolmach, Richard F.
- Abstract
DC Flash Charging Becomes Mainstream in Light Rail Transit The battery train revolution happened most rapidly in urban transit, where the innovation of flash-charged light rail trains, first implemented in Dubai and Huai'an, China in 2015, spurred a worldwide trend in wireless rail. From Prius Hybrids to Hybrid Passenger Trains Hitachi played a major role in popularizing battery power on modern railroads by adding lithium batteries to its Japanese electric and diesel trains in the 1990s, an offshoot of its work on hybrid automobiles. A demonstration rail system to pioneer solar/wind/battery rail operation might make sense in the American West, where railway electrification is currently almost entirely urban, and public demand for low emissions transportation is especially strong.
- Subjects
WIND power; STREET railroads; DIESEL multiple units; ELECTRIC utilities; FUEL cells; ELECTRIC multiple units
- Publication
Solar Today, 2020, Vol 34, Issue 4, p6
- ISSN
1042-0630
- Publication type
Article