FalconX88 t1_iy59dhl wrote on November 28, 2022 at 9:12 PM

Reply to comment by Formendacil in 'Landmark achievement': Rolls-Royce and easyJet hail successful hydrogen jet engine test by Wagamaga

Again, distances. Easy to electrify a large and heavily used part of the network in Germany or France and then use diesel on the lesser used lines where it doesn't make sense to build the infrastructure. Of course you will then operate a mix of diesel, electric, or hybrid.

If you have distances like in Canada it's not easy to electrify a decent percentage of your rail network and then it makes more sense to just stick primarily to diesel.

Formendacil t1_iy5aznb wrote on November 28, 2022 at 9:22 PM

If you electrify the Windsor-Quebec city corridor along with the GO-trains and Exo trains, that would be a pretty significant electric system. I can say this for sure, if that kind of corridor existed in the Nordic (except for maybe Denmark) it would without a doubt be electrified, Toronto and Montreal are large cities an intermediate distance apart