All aboard: Inside Hitachi's vision for a zero carbon battery-powered UK rail network
Koji Agatsuma, engineering director at Hitachi Rail Europe, argues battery trains could offer the UK a flexible, no-regrets transition to a net zero rail network
Japan's trains have long been the envy of the world. More than half a century has passed since the world's first high speed railway opened between Tokyo and Osaka which, capable of ferrying passengers...
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