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Podcast: レアジョブ英会話 Daily News Article Podcast
Episode: Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, creates fully electric river transport system
Description: As Vilnius basks in its Green Capital 2025 accolade, the newest initiative, a small fleet of fully electric boats, has been launched on the Neris River. The Lithuanian capital has become the first European city to integrate fully electric boats into its scheduled public river transport system.
The boats that ferry people up and down the Neris River operate by displacing water. This is considered more economical than other electric vessels because it cuts through or displaces water rather than other boats that plane on the water's surface. The broad, rounded hulls of displacement boats make them steady, and because they...