Hitachi Rail enters first tri-mode hybrid train into service in Europe
The Blues can seat up to 300 people in a four-car configuration. 2022, Hitachi Rail
Hitachi’s Blues train was launched for active service for Trenitalia in Sicily on Tuesday. The train stands out for its use of diesel, battery and electric power. The Blues had its static international presentation last September at the InnoTrans event in Berlin.
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Yes, at any vital system, for sake of robustness, redundancy has to be provided!
Accordingly, now urgently, IM:s shall call upon Industry of tracks, to provide for resiliency!
(Change is the new standard and all other modes, those resilient…, decisively add load capacity, for lower costs, etc.)
Utilisation of vast, existing assets, shall not be hampered, by no longer optimal standards!
(TEN-T etc., current prestigious investments, devastatingly is short of resiliency, thus “cementing”…)