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GE’s Evolution Series Locomotive Delivers 6% Fuel Advantage Over Competitor

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This system—similar to traction control on an automobile—limits wheel slip at start up, on inclines and in adverse weather conditions, ensuring optimum performance and less wasted energy. Trains move one ton of freight an average of 436 miles on each gallon of fuel. Greater reliability.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption of fossil fuels jumped to over $400 billion. But vehicle-miles travelled usually tend to rebound as consumers become accustomed to the new level of price or as the economy recovers. The number of people without access to electricity remained unacceptably high at 1.3

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