I dunno, freight trains seem to do okay. Can’t tell me that they don’t have heavy torque needs.
Cool, I’m getting a freight train then.
Good point! I think diesel electric is used for trains because it is highly efficient, too. It may be that you have to be, literally, the size of a freight train, though to get enough power out of the generator. If a train tried to start/stop like a car, also, I expect the efficiency would be lost, as well, and you’d be back to a direct drive diesel.
Frankly, SOME battery plus a generator is perhaps optimal for a car. Response torque plus endurance efficiency.
I dunno, freight trains seem to do okay. Can’t tell me that they don’t have heavy torque needs.>>> not with batteries. Diesel rules the day.. so much so that locomotive engines are used to power some of the carribean islands. I think Barts has one.