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Aptera completes low-speed drive in its first production-intent solar electric vehicle (electrek.co)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Kind of a different scale. $5.15 billion per mile of track for Caltrain. Aptera hasn’t even broken a billion in funding.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I note with interest that you are repeatedly posting the same cherry-picked factoid.

Average cost per mile for new track in the USA can be anywhere from $100mil/mile to over $1billion/mile for complicated projects like tunneling. This is roughly 50% higher than Europe - most likely for the simple fact that they have a larger industry for it. These are both quite high on an international scale- China builds new track for 24-48mil USD per mile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

$24-48m per mile is still quite a lot. It’s just not the same scale in expense.