Wim 🅾On average, a car weighs about 1.3 ton and carries 1.45 passengers, so 0.9 ton per passenger. The N700 Series #Shinkansen weighs 715 tonnes and carries 1323 passengers, so 0.5 ton per passenger. Combined with the lower rolling resistance of steel wheels on steel rail compared to car tires on tarmac (0.002 vs 0.010), the result is that an N700 Shinkansen is almost 10x more energy efficient than a typical automobile. And of course, at 320 km/h, a lot faster too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport
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