Battery-Electric “Infinity Train” Will Charge Itself Using Gravity
22nd June 2024
So essentially, while details are scant at this point, it seems what’s happening here is that for one or more of Fortescue’s mining sites, the team has calculated that there’s enough downhill slope and braking opportunities in the loaded direction to charge up the battery regeneratively, and the train is so much lighter when it’s unloaded that the battery can take it all the way back to the mine and start the journey again without needing a charge.
Not clear how that helps anything outside of that ‘little engine that could’ scenario.