'This is the big one' - tech firms bet on electrifying rail

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Every day, thousands of passengers heading south west on trains leaving Aldershot station pass a cluster of solar panels nestled by the tracks. Few, if any, may notice the installation. But the train they are on is drawing power from it. "On a sunny afternoon, if you are catching a train through Aldershot, a little bit of the energy for that train will come from those solar panels," says Leo Murray, co-founder and chief executive of Riding Sunbeams, a start-up aiming to use renewable energy

'This is the big one' - tech firms bet on electrifying rail http://www.bbc.com - 31.10.2025 00:14

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