This is just marketing. Electrified trains have used break energy recuperation for decades now. Nothing groundbreaking there. Second, the forces involved in trains accelerating and breaking are tremendous. Using a battery there is just nonsense compared to distribution over a grid. To store such an amount of energy, the battery must have the size of several coaches.
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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yea its pointless. i might have posted this blindly, i will probably delete this
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