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This is pretty cool, but this isn't nearly enough money. Hopefully they get funding from a train company.

Wait hybrid trains have been a thing for quite a while now. How is this something new ?

Because it's coming from the UK. So we stole it and consequently invented it.

We've also invented roads, toilets, sandwiches, teddy bears, engines, everything we, stole, invented it.

Well at least the money is going into trains and not cars so thats good

Doesn’t hybrid mean diesel-electric?

No its more about using battery storage. Yes it could also be diesel electric but the point it that it uses excess energy to fill its battery storage

We just call them battery-electric, not hybrid.