All aboard: Inside Hitachi’s vision for a zero carbon battery powered UK rail network

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…