Will California High-Speed Rail be electric?

It'll be 100% electrified. It will use renewable power. It will literally be, not an embellishment, the greenest train in the world. Given that no major high-speed railway is fully powered by renewables currently, that may be true if the $12 billion Brightline West project opens on schedule by 2028.



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This chart displays the Breakeven Analysis on Phase 1 of the high-speed rail system assuming the horizon year of 2040, showing a 99.4 percent probability that Phase 1 would be profitable between $0 to $5.7 billion and a 0.6 percent chance of deficit between $220 million and 0.

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Infrastructure: we built it first. The US built its rail systems a long time ago. Updating it is incredibly expensive because old systems were not designed to be easily upgraded to newer technologies. No one knew what those newer technologies would even be.

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As of February 2021, the state of California has spent approximately $4.3 billion on the high-speed rail project that was planned to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco. However, it is important to note that the project is not entirely dead but has faced significant delays, cost overruns, and scaled-down plans.

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The interstate highway system cost $129 billion — roughly $290 billion in current dollars — and took 35 years to complete, running from 1957 to 1992. The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill enacted in 2021 has $102 billion for rail, but none of the money is set aside for high-speed rail.

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California's plan is to build an electric train that will connect Los Angeles with the Central Valley and then San Francisco in two hours and 40 minutes. But 15 years later, there is not a single mile of track laid, and executives involved say there isn't enough money to finish the project.

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Most passenger trains, however, make many intermediate stops, and the trains must be sized to meet the maximum demand along the route. As a result, many trains tend to be relatively empty for much of their journeys, greatly reducing their energy efficiency.

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California's plan is to build an electric train that will connect Los Angeles with the Central Valley and then San Francisco in two hours and 40 minutes. But 15 years later, there is not a single mile of track laid, and executives involved say there isn't enough money to finish the project.

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HSR is electrically powered and can run 100% on clean, safe renewable energy.

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The Hyperloop system is expected to be a faster and economical alternative to conventional short- range aviation and high-speed rails. Moreover, a market study by NASA (Taylor et al., 2016) concluded that developing Hyperloop facilities would be cheaper than other high-speed railway Page 5 5 networks.

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Interestingly, the researchers also find that an electric car is even slightly better than high-speed rail if 4 people are in the car. If it's only one person driving, taking a train is much better, but driving an electric car still solidly beats air travel.

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The plan to build a high-speed train that will connect Las Vegas with Southern California took another important step this month. The massive transportation project by Brightline could begin as soon as this year, with an estimated completion plotted for around 2027.

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In 2008 when voters approved the bond measure for the train, the cost to connect the 500-mile span would be around $33 billion. Today, the whole 500-mile system would cost a grand total of $128 billion. That price tag has left state officials scratching their heads to bridge that $100 billion funding gap.

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According to a study by the Los Angeles Times, the most current projected fare for the train, $86 a ride, would still be one of the most inexpensive high-speed rail trips on a per-mile basis. When funding for the project was first approved, however, tickets were projected to be closer to the $50 range.

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In a survey conducted by TechnoMetrica for APTA, two-thirds (63 percent) of Americans are likely to use high-speed trains if high-speed rail were available today. This jumps to nearly seventy (67) percent when respondents were informed of the costs and time saving benefits of high-speed rail service.

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In 2021, Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway Co., Ltd. earned a total net profit of 4.8 billion yuan, an increase of more than 49 percent from the previous year. Established in Beijing in 2007, it is the only railroad company in China that introduces social cash investors and Sino-foreign cooperative operations.

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California's plan is to build an electric train that will connect Los Angeles with the Central Valley and then San Francisco in two hours and 40 minutes.

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Has the bullet train ever had an accident? In 2011, a high-speed bullet train crashed near the south-eastern city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, killing 40 people. The Chinese government later admitted that the crash was caused by design flaws and sloppy management.

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