Locomotive was damaged by a tree and is immobile.  

You haven’t thought through the scenario very well.

Would you rather be on a bus in that situation?

It sounds like the locomotive was damaged when it hit the tree, which is why they were able to get moving once a different locomotive got to them.

Yeah airplanes are renowned for their ability to never be affected by weather...

Plenty of planes get delayed for weather that is no problem for a train.

That’s not a plane....

Err...

What I learned from this: Quebec is an inhospitable frozen hell zone in winter.

Would a heater grid around the battery, or some other system to keep all those cells at a nice toasty room-ish temperature, do anything to stave off this problem? Seems like a probably worthwhile tradeoff to get back all the range.

I like the styling. Efficient and attractive. No fake scoops. Looks like decent aero for the volume.

That video was definitely in the article when I published it. Damn Kinja...

I like the car. Excellent ideas.

And that has exactly what to do with his thefts?

In B4 the “high speed rail won’t work because ‘merica big” posts are made by people who don’t realize there are countries bigger than the U.S. that have high speed rail systems.

How many “jalopnik magazine is to political” emails are you trying to get this time?

The design is from the movie Talladega Nights starring Will Ferrell. Kurt Busch drove this car (the one pictured) at Talladega in real life for fun/publicity/charity or something like that.

Let me elaborate on this a bit more. Its not just this story but others like it that appear on this and other sites all the time. A Tesla catches fire, or maybe some other EV has a failure. That one car becomes a major story.

Big. Effin. Deal. So yeah, she was wrong. But why is it that when ANY electric vehicle has ANY problem at all suddenly its this awe-inspiring event? OTOH how many conventional cars detonate their transmissions, have electrical issues, blow head gaskets and so on? See- we forgive that because we all collectively know…

I suspect you have a better EV than our Nissan Leaf. Between the power delivery and the tires, it is more about skating the car when there is ice/snow on the ground.