Patrick De Boeuf, Chief Executive of De Lijn, steps off an electric tram surrounded with white smoke in the tram depot in Ghent, Belgium. He is demonstrating the loss of heat from trams with a smoke machine. He has modernized the public transport tramcars with innovative technology to reduce electricity consumption and has won a prestigious Ashden sustainable travel award for this work.

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