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The funniest argument and the reason I share this is that since the utilities company that provides the tram service has a ratified goal of becoming CO2-Neutral eventually, they've elected to not buy ACs since they'd consume about 7 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year and ACs aren't sustainable. I assume the 50°C tram is gonna be a big hit as per transportation in the upcoming summers.

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[–] SerialExperimentsGay@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My train girl just informed me that this isn't because the trains don't have AC, it's that the AC is so weak-ass underpowered that it doesn't properly work above 26°c.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

oh damn they've been downgrading, I remember a decade or so back there was an understandable scandal about the ICE AC system not working above 32°C

[–] SerialExperimentsGay@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is for Regios, not for the ICE

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

I still feel like a decade of modernity should've given us, like, better train AC across the board and not -6°C working conditions for regional trains.

Like fucking 26°C degrees? That's temperatures you'd have here before the climate got all loopy with it