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KingRamesesII t1_j1unp6c wrote

I completely agree with you. Trains are the most efficient mode of transportation humans have invented, but unfortunately an electric train company can never make as much money as Tesla because cars (and roads) represent “freedom.”

Also, despite the risk, people like the privacy of cars. You can fart and sing loud and lots of things you can’t do on a train.

People will take out debt to buy a car. Nobody takes a loan and pays it off over 5 years just to ride a train. So the banking industry heavily finances the auto industry.

So there’s money in trains, but there’s stupid money in cars. Companies follow the money, and there’s just too much money to be made in cars.

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Surur t1_j1uret7 wrote

> Trains are the most efficient mode of transportation humans have invented

A family driving to the beach by EV is actually more energy efficient than the same family taking an electric train, and massively more efficient than if they were to take a diesel train.

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

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WikiSummarizerBot t1_j1urgjl wrote

Energy efficiency in transport

>The energy efficiency in transport is the useful travelled distance, of passengers, goods or any type of load; divided by the total energy put into the transport propulsion means. The energy input might be rendered in several different types depending on the type of propulsion, and normally such energy is presented in liquid fuels, electrical energy or food energy. The energy efficiency is also occasionally known as energy intensity. The inverse of the energy efficiency in transport, is the energy consumption in transport.

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