World's first hybrid train

I took a ride on the world's first hybrid train to go into commercial service.
It's a cute little train in a resort area that's fun to ride.
But this was serious work for writing a story.
The company official there kept giving us strange explanations _ such as the motor running backward _ that I later realized just couldn't be right.
I made calls later to check to make sure we had it right in our story.
It's strange how some Japanese companies don't seem to be aware that if they give us reporters the wrong information, then they aren't doing their job right. We are doing our best to understand the technology, but we aren't experts.