Further electrificaiton

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dodo1987
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Further electrificaiton

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Hullo,

This is developed from wanting more achievements added to Steam. I read other threads and I like the idea of an achievement for going full electric/green. We already have electric furnaces, so what is left is the transportation? (apart from the rocket itself, because come on, electronic space rocket is a bit too much, no? and the oil refineries...well, not sure they can be green.) So, what we are left with are:

-train
-car
-tank

Train - Was thinking that you will need to power them through electric rail. To make the design easy, do not do overhead, but one between the rails, on the ground. To build, you can add a steel electric pole for each unit of electric rail? As for train itself, well, electric engine.

Car & Tank - electric engine and power can come from the fusion reactor.

This way there will be even more increased demand on electricity, so I can build more sun rays and batteries, even if you make the electric loco demanding.

Thanks.

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Yes i fully agree - eletric trains or electrified railway will look harmoniously in the future on a distant planet :D
Developers please add that - u added nucler reactors so why to not to add these logistic elements?
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Re: Further electrificaiton

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There are at least three electric train mods available. I haven't tried any of them, but they are:
https://mods.factorio.com/mods/magu5026/ElectricTrain
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ElectricTrains (0.16 only)
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Realistic_Electric_Trains

Electric cars and electric tanks are harder to find, at least for 0.17. I found https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ElectricVehicles3 for 0.16, but it doesn't seem to have been updated for 0.17.

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The game will never support electric type energy source on vehicles, so no native support for this.

However, some mods have faked it using a central electric station and burner fake fuel items.
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