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Still plenty of diesel run train engines in Germany.

Also coal is still being burnt. So I don't think it is mostly renewable.

In both of these cases, the energy per person-kilometer of transportation is orders of magnitudes lower than with an ICE car. So the energy usage would still go down

I think that the Deutsche Bahn runs 100% on clean energy.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk_Datteln

40% ~ 400MW of this coal plant go directly to DB. They argue that it’s only used for freight and not for public transport but meh - a useless differentiation IMO.

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