Originally Posted by
gfunkdave
Hmm, interesting. So using these numbers, a typical train of ~10 cars (as on the NYC subway) would use only about 35 kWh to get the one mile from, say, Union Square to Penn Station? That seems very low to me.
The capital outlay would seem more prohibitive then the energy usage..
It wouldn't make sense to capitalize billions of dollars, ir the variable costs are high as well.