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  • Because diesel catching on fire is totally unheard of.

    On it’s own? Pretty much unheard of. Usually is a leak and something else set it on fire.

    Batteries on the other hand plenty of cases where the battery itself was the starting point. Is usually cause by a bad design or external factors? Yes, not saying otherwise.

    And tbh Diesel is the worse example you could put as requires either high pressure or a continuous exposure to a flame as you could throw a lit match on it and it wouldn’t set it on fire. Petrol/Gasoline on the other hand…


  • It has some benefits if they are worth or not I am not so sure.

    It’s easier to change the routes, either permanent or temporally. In the case of temporally if it has a second source of power like battery or non electrical engine it can like use a non electrified street if there is some emergency or construction or whatever.

    You can change routes for special days easily without junctions or whatever is needed for trams without big issues.

    And even if it needs to electrify a new zone it, it probably much faster than the work for adding new rails and junctions.