WHY ELECTRIC ROADTRAINS ?
Awesome Value
Roadtrains will allow 4-7X lanes of car traffic in just one lane. This is tremendously cost-effective. It reduces congestion and decreases the need to pave and repave.
Electrified inner lanes substitute for public charging stations and eliminate stopping to charge. Best of all, all-electric cars can go between and within metro areas with lightweight, inexpensive batteries. This sharply reduces their cost. It also greatly reduces their weight and, consequently, their rolling resistance on rubber tires.
A single steel rail allows roadtrain cars to retract the front tires and settle down onto a steel wheel. With one-tenth as much rolling resistance, this will provide a strikingly smooth, quiet, and very energy-efficient ride. With aerodynamically optimized cars, the energy efficiency of today’s electric cars, the least CO2 emitting and most inexpensive to fuel, will triple.
Reducing car purchase and operating costs will pay for upgrading the highways. And much more.
WHY ELECTRIC ROADTRAINS ?
Awesome Value
Roadtrains will allow 4-7X lanes of car traffic in just one lane. This is tremendously cost-effective. It reduces congestion and decreases the need to pave and repave.
Electrified inner lanes substitute for public charging stations and eliminate stopping to charge. Best of all, all-electric cars can go between and within metro areas with lightweight, inexpensive batteries. This sharply reduces their cost. It also greatly reduces their weight and, consequently, their rolling resistance on rubber tires.
A single steel rail allows roadtrain cars to retract the front tires and settle down onto a steel wheel. With one-tenth as much rolling resistance, this will provide a strikingly smooth, quiet, and very energy-efficient ride. With aerodynamically optimized cars, the energy efficiency of today’s electric cars, the least CO2 emitting and most inexpensive to fuel, will triple.
Reducing car purchase and operating costs will pay for upgrading the highways. And much more.