The last nation-wide infrastructure project that the US built out was the interstate highway system. Since then, as our railroad transportation system for consumers (vs. freight) languished, funds were poured into air transportation.

During this time, Europe, followed (and exceeded) by China took Japan's idea of fast trains as their preferred transportation infrastructure. China is now crisscrossed with around 50,000km of 300 km/hr passenger rail lines (which augment the fantastic subway/metro mass transit systems found in in most of their cities cities). When we were roaming around in China, we figured that the overall trip time from point to point was a break-even taking a train or flying 15,000 km (1,000 miles). That's almost from NYC to Omaha, Kansas City or Miami. And you can reach across the US in a day by train.

If there wer reasonably priced EV rentals at train stations, there are tremendous benefits to rethinking things.

Jeff