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> Rail is a lot cleaner in that regard if you can get an electrified rail (not sure if this works with high speed).

Jeez! You know Tesla batteries and you don't know that high speed trains are electric?? WTH

Rail doesn't run on batteries; the track is electrified, which overall gives you a lower environmental impact than manufacturing a ton of Tesla batteries.

Yeah, I wasn't thinking, I guess, brain fart because I was thinking how the US refers to systems of non-electrified rails that can carry trains at above 115-mph as "higher-speed".

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