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Assessment of Battery Technology for Rail Propulsion Application

Document Series:
Technical Reports
Author:
  • Federal Railroad Administration
Report Number
DOT/FRA/ORD-17/12
Keywords:
Battery technologies, hybrid diesel-electric locomotives, lead-acid, lead-carbon, nickel cadmium, nickel metal hydride, bipolar nickel metal hydride, nickel super capacitor, molten sodium metal-halide, lithium-ion
Document
Assessment of Battery Technology.pdf (13.48 MB)

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Last updated: Monday, August 21, 2017