Soon battery-powered trains could be coming to a station near you. As the UK’s fleet of diesel engines approaches retirement, ...

Courtesy Caltrain. Caltrain leaders announced Thursday that the transit agency has received money to purchase and pilot a bi-level dual electric and battery-powered train, the country’s first.

Money for the £189,000,000 system comes from the UK government, the West Midlands combined authority, the Coventry and ...

As U.S. transit agencies increasingly order buses powered by batteries or hydrogen fuel cells, some of these same agencies are beginning to look at trains that use similar technologies.

The goal is to develop an electric battery-powered train, with suitable charging stations, that can work on this side of the Atlantic. Stadler US CEO Martin Ritter said unlike Utah’s TRAX system ...