Modeling Helps Batteries Jump on the Train of Environmental Progress

COMSOL NEWS 2009

If all diesel electric locomotives were converted to utilize hybrid technology, a potential projected savings of more than $425 million per year could be realized — using batteries to run freight locomotives makes economic sense. Add this to significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental savings of General Electric's Hybrid Locomotive help move us toward a greener tomorrow. Michael Vallance of GE Global Research is simulating the sodium metal-chloride batteries that will drive GE’s hybrid locomotives to enable and even increase these savings.