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'UK first' battery powered train slashes fuel costs by up to 50 per cent
(www.businessgreen.com)
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2024
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"By using this cutting edge technology, we anticipate to achieve significant efficiency gains from the process whereby we extract waste cash from our customers' wallets and convert it into useful revenue such as dividends and CEO bonuses."
Except that all the UK trainlines are being nationalized.
Yeh.... but its still run for profit by corrupt government officials. The current budget for hs2 (which iirc has still laid less than 30 miles of track) is more than the projected cost of the entire combined EU rail connection an revitalization scheme. (60 billion vs 40 billion last I checked)