kublikhan wrote:I agree with many of the posts here, not practical to do long haul trucking via batteries. It would be more practical to use an electric railroad. Although electrifying freight railroads in the US seems unlikely to happen anytime soon. Electric trains are common in Europe though.
kublikhan wrote:Yeah I was referring to fully electric freight trains, not the diesel electrics. There's very little fully electric freight in the US.
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Tanada wrote:Just switching all the long distance freight to conventional diesel electric locomotives and making all the semis the spokes out from the rail hubs would do wonders for cargo fuel efficiency. The thing is that requires the resumption of warehouses and the end of just in time shipping, something anathema to current business models of operation.
The old complaint about warehouses was twofold, they need excellent records to keep track of every bit of goods stored, something computers now make much easier with barcode logging, and they require money be invested in physical goods and the storage of those same goods instead of the money constantly being in motion from buyer to seller to producer to financial institution.
Get rid of JIT as a way of life and shipping cargo can shift back to rail and water modes of very efficient transport. Demand JIT continue and you require many thousands of individual units to move individual cargoes at on demand times instead of at convenience times.
Tanada wrote:Just switching all the long distance freight to conventional diesel electric locomotives and making all the semis the spokes out from the rail hubs would do wonders for cargo fuel efficiency. The thing is that requires the resumption of warehouses and the end of just in time shipping, something anathema to current business models of operation.
The old complaint about warehouses was twofold, they need excellent records to keep track of every bit of goods stored, something computers now make much easier with barcode logging, and they require money be invested in physical goods and the storage of those same goods instead of the money constantly being in motion from buyer to seller to producer to financial institution.
Get rid of JIT as a way of life and shipping cargo can shift back to rail and water modes of very efficient transport. Demand JIT continue and you require many thousands of individual units to move individual cargoes at on demand times instead of at convenience times.
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