Comment on Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives
superkret@feddit.org 1 week agoI could see why they would do it specifically in this case.
There’s been huge protests against building the Gigafactory in Brandenburg, and the main instrument of the opponents was using Germany’s strict environmental protection laws against it.
If they needed to cut down more trees along the tracks to electrify the line, the opponents could possibly delay that by suing in court, demanding studies be done, maybe finding an endangered ant species somewhere in the area.
Running the train on batteries avoids that.
drdabbles@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They could have just illegally cut down the trees like they illegally used too much water, or any of the other things they did against their agreement with the government.