Battery-electric trainsets offer many opportunities to achieve operation and energy goals for rail transit, but they require ...

Tesla's highly anticipated "Giga Train," its first all-electric battery-powered train, has debuted in Germany. The Giga Train takes passengers from Erkner Station to Tesla Sud, the station located ...

But freight and passenger trains still emit around 35 million metric tons of CO2 emissions each year. Right now, only a tiny fraction of American trains are electric. Caltrain is now running the ...

Two new electric trains in California could be a sign that the notoriously laggard US is finally ready to catch up to the rest of the world. Two new electric trains in California could be a sign ...

Caltrain is the San Francisco peninsula’s commuter rail, the oldest operating railroad in the western U.S. Over the next few weeks its old diesel trains ... passenger mile as the average ...

Japan’s high-speed bullet trains are famous for speeding across the country—but China wants to set a new world record for the fastest electric passenger rail. Prototype tests are reportedly un ...

In a first for North America, the passenger trains will be powered by electric-battery locomotives “offering clean, green zero-emission service,” according to the New York Metropolitan Transportation ...

The introduction of these trains aims to facilitate sustainable rail services on non-electrified lines using electric energy. Furthermore, this initiative is a component of the ongoing modernisation ...